Assignment 4 & 5: The Floursack Murderer

For the flour sack assignment, I decided that I wanted to commit a heinous murder. My goal was to portray a flower sack on her merry way, suddenly disrupted with a gruesome sight; a fellow flour sack sprawled on the ground with a knife stabbing him and his flour spilling in all directions. Behind him, a birthday cake made from him innards. In complete honesty, I struggled quite a bit with this piece. I still was not completely comfortable using Harmony and for the first time ever, I was creating a walk cycle. Additionally, I should have animated on twos to help pace the animation, which I did not do. Either way, I think it was an awesome experience and challenged me, ultimately forcing me to learn more about the different features in Harmony. 

Some gesture drawings of my flour sack: 

Assignment 3: Let's Get Some Action

 Here is my over-lapping action animation piece. In all honesty, this was incredibly difficult to make. I recreated the scene from Super Mario Brothers where Mario swings from vine to vine. I struggled the most with the movement of the vine and how it swayed from side to side. Unlike a pendulum, the movement of the vine closely resembles the slither of a snake. I still feel like I can improve on the motion of the vine especially when it loses velocity, however, I think I did decently when troubleshooting. I also wish I was better at drawing anatomy. That would have definitely helped the depiction of the "lil dude" who did the swinging. Ultimately, I am content and can't wait to hear the feedback! 

Signing off, 

Radz

Assignment 2: Le Bouncing Ball

 

My first official animation; I never thought the day would come! 

Created on Harmony, I made several versions of this animation before I settled with the one posted here! I knew I had to keep it fairly simple since there was a harsh learning curve with the software, but once I got the hang of it, I was pretty pleased with my self. I chose an incline ramp to start with because I wanted to challenge myself to apply an exaggerated version of the squash and stretch concept to my ball. I quickly learned that with the higher velocity the ball had, the more it would stretch. When translating this is into the animation, I loved how organic and moldable the ball looked. Along with the ball moving through the "obstacles", smashing against a building on its way down, I thought I would further experiment with animating and added cracks appearing in each frame after the impact of the ball on the building. Overall, this was very exciting to create and I can't wait to do more! 

Baby, I'm on Fire.

 Hello fellow internet dwellers, and welcome to a personal space that just became not so personal. If you have no idea where I'm going with this, let me reveal a bit more to you. My name is Radhika and I am studio art major with video as my concentration. I'm 24 years old and some crucial information you all should know, I'm an Aries. I love creating and getting lost in the process. I would like exposure to all forms of art, hence my decision to take 2-D computer animation. 

A quick overview of my past: 6 years. 6 long years of struggle, denying my passion for the arts, led me on a path of misery called chemical engineering. It wasn't until my 23rd birthday when I took a short pause to ask the universe the universal question, "why". Although this inquiry was only met with silence, the silence seemed to speak volumes. I interpreted this volume as a sign to get out and pursue the absolute heck out of the arts. So here I am. Finally doing exactly what I want and taking my first 2-D animation class (shout out to Professor Dana)! I am beyond excited and can't wait to start learning the basics. While I have no prior experiences with animation, I do love watching animation series'. Some of my favorites include: 

• Ricky and Morty
• Adventure Time
• Regular Show
• Bob's Burgers
• Tokyo Ghoul
• Parasyte
• Jujutsu Kaisen
• Fruits Basket (I know I'm a loser but this anime always pulls at my heart strings and the animation of the reboot is A++)
• ANYTHING Ghibli 
• BIG MOUTH
• Bojack Horseman
• Daria 
• ATLA and LOK (c'mon those are obvious ones!)
• Cyanide and Happiness 
• Some parts of Broad City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ9aoio2rAY)
• Over the Garden Wall

I should probably stop there. 

I really want to learn basic animation, like loops/cycles or boils, (I think that's what they are called) because I want to overlay those on live action film. 

 

Well that's all for now. See y'all later. 

Radz