2D Animation Assigment 1: Limited Animation

Nouval Kemalsyah Adhigumilang 0331328

Our lecture today centered around the very basics of traditional 2D animation. We watched a short video called 'Duet', an animated short created by the brains behind 'Tarzan'. In it the animators demonstrated the 12 basic principles of 2D animation. These basic principles are the foundation of 2D animation, and together they help create the illusion that a series of changing drawings and frames really are living breathing movements.

The 12 principles are as follows:
  1. Squash and stretch gives the illusion of weight and volume of action
  2. Anticipation prepares the audience for a major action
  3. Staging presentation of an object so it is clear
  4. Pose-to-pose and straight-ahead the first consists of a few key drawings set throughout the scene, straight ahead animation starts from the beginning and progresses through time.
  5. Follow-through and overlapping when the main part of a body stops, all the other parts try to catch up. Nothing stops at once. It is like anticipation, but at the end.
  6. Slow in and Slow out more drawing at the start and end. The character eases in and out of the action.
  7. Arcs most movements happens in arcs, to give animation better flow.
  8. Secondary action an additional action that helps reinforce the main action
  9. Timing more drawings creates slower animation, less creates faster crisper actions
  10. Exaggeration maintaining reality, but presenting it in a more extreme form
  11. Solid drawings taking into account forms in 3D space, giving them volume and weight
  12. Appeal the charm and charisma of an action

The 12-principles are also demonstrated in the animation 'Duet' below:

  1. Solid drawings 0:26-0:32 the girl's floating
  2. Slow in Slow Out 0:33-0:38 the girl's rolling
  3. Staging the only actions present in the animation are the characters and their immediate surroundings
  4. Appeal the characters move with a bounce and grace akin to traditional Disney films
  5. Exaggeration 0:51-0:54 the boy hugging the puppy
  6. Anticipation 1:12 the dog heaves itself up before jumping off the rock
  7. Timing the animation moves back and forth between speed and pace
  8. Secondary action 1:18 the birds fly away as the boy runs around
  9. Pose-to-pose and straight ahead no clear way to discern which method is used 
  10. Follow through and overlapping 1:52-1:56 when the girl stops moving, her hair continues to fly around
  11. Arcs the characters general motions are in arc, the camera moves around in an arc throughout
  12. Squash and stretch 2:20-2:22 as the girl moves off the stage, her form becomes stretched and distored, to show speed and movement as well as form



Assigment 1
I was paired with hanif on to make a limited animation and here is our progress. Hanif was the new student and i just discovered that hes a few year older than us and got a few years of work so hes a big part of this assigment.



this is how we started but eventually we scan it and transfer it to animate after the second lecture and it looked something like this

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