Animation Projects

Assignments

Animation Software Skills

Basic Animation Tools: Frames, Keyframes, Onion Skin, etc.
Layers (2D)
Tweening
1. 2D
  1. Motion
  2. Classic
  3. Shape
Tweening Controls: Effects (2D), Graph Editor (3D)
Pen Tool and Curves.
Animate on a Path
Camera Animation
Lighting
Bones and Rigging
1. 2D
  1. Bone tool
  2. Warp tool
2. Bone Constraints
3. Inverse Kinematics

Principles of Animation

Below are the12 Principles of Animation

Squash and Stretch
Anticipation
Staging
Straight Ahead Animation and Pose to Pose Animation
Follow Through and Overlapping Animation
Slow In and Slow Out
Arcs
Timing
Secondary Action
Exaggeration
Solid Drawing
Appeal

Description of principles

Beginner Assignment Ideas

Learning Animation Tools Ideas

Principles of Animation Ideas

Independent Projects

Animation shorts

Walk Cycle
Bird Flying
More Cycles: Run, Jump, Throw, etc.
Lifting Heavy Objects
Speaking
Hands and Holding Objects

Final Exam

The final exam for this class is just another project. See the Final Exam page for more details.

Tutorials