Some of you are incorporating traditional frame by frame animation in addition to your work with the bone tool for this animation.. Here’s a few resources to remind you of the basic principles.
Every frame needs to be a keyframe! (shortcut F6) There aren’t any tweens
Shortcuts for frame by frame animation:
hollow circle on timeline: no artwork on stage
Select and right click: Convert to Blank Keyframes
Use onion skinning
comma key : move back one frame
period key: move one frame forward
Inverse Kinematics:
The bone tool gives you inverse kinematics (IK) capabilities within Animate. IK is a way of animating objects using bones chained into linear or branched armatures in parent-child relationships. When one bone moves, connected bones move in relation to it. Inverse kinematics lets you easily create natural motion. To animate using inverse kinematics, specify the start and end positions of bones on the Timeline. Animate automatically interpolates the positions of the bones in the armature between the starting and ending frames.
WATCH THIS FIRST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84zAJi704k
Adobe Animate Bone Tool tutorial
https://theblog.adobe.com/mysteries-of-the-bone-tool/
Tips:
Inspiration/Research
Character walk cycles:
Misc Examples:
Step by step Tutorial: How to walk cycle
Assignment: Design and execute a Character Animation of at least 240 frames.
Can be a person, animal, abstract combination of the two – anything!
Show demonstrated knowledge of the bone tool and Inverse Kinematics, Onion Skinning, and all technical concepts in Flash so far. (keyframes, shapes, motion tweens, etc.)
Great animation videos on Youtube.
Due Date: April 27. (LAST CLASS)
Hi students,
I’ve posted several posts on starting your next and last project. Be sure to look at all of them.
My advice:
Hello favorite Animation students!
Here’s the deal – Please upload your Creative logo in .mp4 or .gif ) to the Google Drive link I sent you in your email by Monday, April 6 at 11:30 a.m.
Your job is to make two comments on each student project via Google Drive – below is a screen shot – Click on each project to open the file, on the upper right the box with a “+” in it… make a comment on each students project please.
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The goal for this next project is to have fun in a different way than our commercial project. The commercial project was about selling, branding, etc. This project is about being playful and creative.
Find your favorite painting, drawing, photograph from your OWN portfolio and add brushes, effects, motion, etc. You must have a cohesive (approx) 200 – frame animation.
Project due: April 6
Video/tutorials to watch/read to prepare for this project:
Learning objectives:
Examples online:
Gorgeous Japanese woodblock prints
“The world is spinning” (3D tool possibilities)
https://www.behance.net/gallery/11828499/Camping-in-the-fall
Please watch the above videos.
We made great progress on our logo animations last week. Today is a lab day to refine, and continue working on them.
If you get to a good place with your logo… begin your animated banner design. (See below for specs)
To keep up with the “industry standard” we are going to follow Yahoo Ad Specs for this portion of the project. You may choose any size within the “Standard” banners. Choose one that suits your needs for your particular company and vision for the ad.
Your banner should include your logo but show additional elements of text, image and information about your company. Try to incorporate an additional image (s) – think of this as an ad for your company. . . What are you “selling”?
Timeframe: 30 fps approx 200-400 frames
Size: 728 x 90 – labeled as a “Leaderboard” in Ad Templates
Kinds of Banners: 1. Simple 2. Expandable 3. Take Over 4. “Blocked Ads”
Ads Best Practices
Goal: provide content in simple ad design
Reminder: Watch this in class: CLASSIC Tween VS. MOTION tween (6 min) and Adobe
Hello students,
Last week we spent a lot of time working on your logo in Photoshop/Illustrator and did a very basic Animate CC intro.
Today we are going to complete your logo file set up animation. Remember that this is an intro project to get you comfortable with the basic principles in Animate. Create logos that are showing simple animations that move, rotate, reflect, transform, scale, etc.
Key words to remember:
Keyframe: The place where you want something to happen
Motion Tween: Setting properties for an object for continuous motion animation or transformation of an object. Motion tweens appear in the Timeline as a continuous span of frames that can be selected as a single object by default. Motion tweens are powerful and simple to create. And here
Frame Rate: The speed the animation is played at, measured in number of frames per second. A frame rate that is too slow makes the animation appear to stop and start; a frame rate thats too fast blurs the details of the animation. A frame rate of 24 fps is the default for Flash, giving the best results on the web.
Great 20 min video on Animated Logo – Also great for illustrating “erasing” frame by frame by “breaking apart” text
Frame by Frame vs. Motion Tween Animation
Importing from Photoshop or Illustrator
Remember: Your Illustrator files are set up slightly differently by default. I will show you how to “Modify, Timeline, Distribute to Layers” within Flash.
I will be demonstrating the following:
Additional Instructions from Adobe
1.Create new Animate CC document – HTML5
2.Importing .Ai or .PSD to Stage
3. (If Illustrator: Modify, Timeline, Distribute to Layers)
4. Select all Layers. Click on frame 100, Insert Keyframe.
5. Now your file is set up to start animating each layer separately within the 100 frame timeline for your animated logo. (Repeat this process for your banner as well)
6. I’ll also be showing you how to alter your created motion tweens in the Properties Panel (color effects, ease, orient to path, etc)
Keep in mind the general process of :
1. Making a Symbol 2. Inserting Keyframe 3. Creating Motion Tween
Dont do a lot of effects, glows, gradients in your Photoshop/Illustrator files – Animate tends to have trouble converting them and this effects how your layers will import.
Get used to the process of: symbol, add keyframe 1, add keyframe 2, add tween
Hey students,
Last week we had a great discussion regarding the History of Animation as well as you created fun and fast flip books.
This Youtube channel has some valuable tutorials
This week:
Commercial Animated Project:
Animated Logo + Animated Banner
Logo: 250 x 250 (approx)
Web Banner Ad Specs: 728 x 90.
Frame rate: 30 fps.
Tentative DUE DATE: March 9
Technical Demo: Intro to Animate interface, keyframes, tweens, etc.
We will have extensive lab time today for beginning your logos, etc in Photoshop or Illustrator. Be ready to work!
I have created a few handouts on creating basic animations. Please look at them
1. Creating Animations in Animate,
Creating Animations in Animate:
2importing-to-Animate + video: Importing assets from Photoshop or Illustrator to Animate
I’ll be doing some demonstrations in class. .. and then we will talk about your plan of action for your Commercial Animated Project
Here are some great links to start our discussion
Love this handwritten logo animation
This is a beautiful example of the animation process
For your animation:
Things to pay attention to:
Pre-visualization Steps:
We will have a couple of weeks to work on these animations. Make it great! Get acquainted with Animate!
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