Drop Animation for Jarom

Jarom! You are definitely on the right track, here are some notes and an animation to help you out.

If you don't have Joseph Gilland's book yet, buy it. I highly recommend it.

The animation is best viewed in Firefox or Chrome.

The number in the top left is the drawing number, not the frame number.  Everything is on ones except for drawings 1,8,9, and 11.

I know that you said that you referenced a water into water splash to animate, that's fine, just make sure that your drop doesn't gain volume when it hits the ground, other wise it will feel like it hit water. Keep the principles of design in mind while animating : asymmetry, big med small, appealing shape, arcs, exaggeration, etc.

 

That's it! If you have any questions, let me know.

 

-Paige



Some arm tests

Christina, I know you didn't want these animated, but I felt like that was the best way for me to figure out the movement, since these are effects, they would look better inbetweened, but I would like your feedback. So here are a few variations, I almost feel like the four limbs is overkill, but I will have to experiement more.

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks!

Paige

Starting to learn FX

What?! Jarom is actually doing something? :) this is mostly for Paige and Sydney. I originally wasn't going to post this because it's a terrible first attempt. BUT I need to be posting more and holding myself accountable, so it starts....NOW.   give some "feeds" on my back, if you know what I mean.

Words wrting on the walls

 

So, I figured out how to write text in after effects.  Unfortunately there isn't a quick way to make a mask and make the writing look convincing.  You have to individually trace each letter, but I don't think that will be a big deal because by masking the text you have greater control over how it is written. If some of the text in the shot is very small, I am sure we could cheat with a simpler mask.

 

-Paige

Words Flying into eye test

 

This isn't perfect, let me know if I am on the right (subway) track. Created with AfterEffects.

Wall Font Choices

So here is what I learned about fonts:
1) Lots of them have weird names (i.e "don't run in the halls")
2) Finding non-cutesy cursive is hard
3) Windows has a built-in font creator, I haven't tinkered around with it much, but it might be hard to work with. (It is like ms paint but more pixelated) I can spend some more time figuring it out if you don't like any premade fonts.
4) Here are the fonts I did find:

Let me know what font you would like or if you want me to keep searching. Thanks!

 

 

Font Website link here > http://www.dafont.com/

Some Practice Animation

So, I just thought I would try practice animating some cool twisting movement that Maggie could do as her ink lifts her up. It kind of ended up being like an ink rocket. She would stay suspended in the air by more ink tentacles, but I didn't animate those in.

Word FX options

Individual letters along a path:

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/04/04/animate-a-stream-of-objects-along-a-path-in-after-effects/

Original or standard Font along a path:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Tornado_Text1/video-tutorial

Freeform

Animatic Drawovers FX

Experimenting with animatic poses.

FX designs - Paige

I experimented with the initial state of matter when the ink starts to burst out of Maggie's eye.

I am still trying to figure out an appealing hand shape.