In my Digital Design Lab class, we have undergone a Personal Passion Project. In the beginning, I had a lot of trouble finding which project I wanted to spend over a month on. Everything I could come up with was either going to take a week or 6 months. The main problem was how broad my interests were. I rarely have time to do the things I want to do, so these things have piled up extensively. Eventually, I just had to make a list of all that I wanted to do. This list ended up being 12 items long:
In my animation, I will create a dancer doing a grand jete (leap) loop. To do this, I will be using a new feature in ProCreate. Essentially, it is using onion skinning animation. I first found a video of a principal dancer doing it. I then took about 10 screenshots to capture her general movements. I used these images as references and started drawing each of the 10 frames with the onion skinning so she wouldn’t be jumping all over the screen and would have all the same proportions in each frame. Once I created all 10 frames, I noticed it wasn’t a true loop. The video I used ended before the came fully out of the movement. From there, I noted where she left off and used the first frame as where I should have her end up. I used my personal experience (15 years of ballet) to fill in the large chunk of time which was missing. Once I have each frame sketched, I will begin finalizing what she will look like and add colors and detail. Next, I will apply this base to each frame and manipulate it to fit the movement and make sure all the shadows and details work and are cohesive. For this project, we also have to incorporate an additional discipline and apply those principles to whatever you are doing. Since my main topic is animation, I thought I would use this element to focus on body movement so I can make sure that what I’ making my dancer do is actually accurate. Some of the principles of body movement in animation are as follows:
With all that I’ve learned and done so far, I keep getting more and more excited about this project. Each time I sit down and work on it, it gets harder and harder to stop.
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