Level 01, Exersize 02

nipun chordiya - exercise1

hey there folk..
today i saw a post about this group of animator..and i thought must join them ..
see you all in the space.. :-)

1st ex from nipun chordiya on Vimeo.

Johanna Gan - Exercise 2

Since I haven't really animated much in the past few years, I have to learn all this stuff over again!

I pack my video with progress clips so vimeo recognizes it as a video to upload.  With that said, the red ball is my final.  This exercise didn't take too long at first, but the more I tweaked it the more ridiculous it became and the more time I spent on it.  My big problem was with the arc of the first full bounce. It just kept appearing really floaty or evenly timed and it bugged me.  Eventually, I just said I'm done with the exercise, and this is what I ended up with.  Like my previous exercise, the frame numbers indicate new drawings. 

The progression:
Final - Red ball
Initial planning - shows the arc path and my timing charts I didn't follow in the end.
Initial planning #2 - minus the arc path for bounce clarity
Inked - added a more prominent brush stroke for the ball rather than pencil
Playing with arc - this one the ball is filled in with white
... spared you all the other tweaking videos...
Final again - Red ball (same as beginning)





Animation 51 - #2 from Johganna on Vimeo.

Mikel "Menty" Wellington - Exercise 1

This is the first exercise i'm doing apart of the Animation51 challenge. It's been some time since I've worked on things outside of work, so I'm just looking to get powered up again for animation! WOOT WOOT!


Animation51 - Exercise 1 / Level 1(Bouncing Ball) from Mikel "Menty" Wellington on Vimeo.

Daniel Moreno Exercise 1

Hi everyone, here's my first entry to this great and diverse group.

So the first thing I noticed when I began this exercise is the importance of reference for planning an animation that would seem easy at first glance. There is a number of details that skip the eye with a bouncing ball, and its always better to be prepared before setting the first key on the scene. I went with one of the great books on animation for this, The Animator's Survival Kit. The main points to work here where

-the keys where the ball makes contact with the ground, because there needed to be an "extra" pose that shows the wheight of the ball, by squashing it down

 -the parts where the ball takes off the ground (and comes into it) also needed to be exagerated by stretching the ball

Below is the end result, any comment to make it better is always appreciated!


Animation 51 - Exercise 1 from Daniel Moreno on Vimeo.

Bouncing Ball

For more information about the bouncing ball exercise, take a look at Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit page 94 -95.

Isai Calderon Exercise 1

This took me about 30 minutes and oodles of fun!


Level 1, Exercise 01, Bouncing Ball, No decay from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.