Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson, first of all we watched a short film, made from animator (BLU). I think that his work was very amazing, especially when the animation goes along the wall. I love all of the animation that he used, and in my opinion he is a fantastic animator.

Here is one of his short animation films:




In the lesson we also had to do the 'Bouncy Ball' task. Where we had to draw 31 points of where the bouncy ball would move to, and there where also key points as well. It had to be done on postet notes so that by the end of it, we could flick the pages and it would appear as if the ball was moving.

Our last task of the day, was to have a go at creating our own animation character, but we had to draw the animation, we then had to plan what was going to happen in the short animation. When we had decided what was going to happen, we had to start drawing our final peice, where we have to go step by step with each movement.

In my animation, it starts of with a ball rolling around the floor, which then crashes into a wall. After the crash the ball splits into two eyes. The eyes jump onto a trampoline and misses it when they fall back down and splats onto the floor. It then gets up, and is a cowboy and starts shooting around everywhere and accidently shoots a massive water barrel, which then explodes and he drowns in the water.
As you can see my idea is simple, but full of lots of action which will take a long time to do when sketching it out. My idea is also based on the concept of risk, because the person shoots a water barrel which he then drowns in.

I really enjoyed todays lesson, eventhough it was full of hard work.