Assignment: Awareness of Animation

Assignment 12: Principles of Animation

Suggested Time Frame to Completion: 10 hours

Your assignment: If you remember back to your bouncing ball assignment, you will note that you have already worked with and included 2 of the principles of animation, that of SQUASH AND STRETCH and SLOW IN SLOW OUT. In this assignment you will research, and then demonstrate through animation some of the other principles of animation.

What you will need: Adobe Flash, research links.

What you will need to do: Follow the steps provided below:

Your instructor will randomly select a group of principles from the list below for you to animate. Using flash, develop a character or object and clearly demonstrate through a brief animation, the principles as assigned. For example: the ball bounce assignment clearly demonstrated the principles of SQUASH AND STRETCH and SLOW IN SLOW OUT. You may do one animation to demonstrate each principle separately or combine one or more principles into a complete animation. Your final assignment should be of sufficient length to clearly demonstrate the principle. Assume 3 seconds for each as a start.

NOTE: Research ALL principles as we will have a test on these later.

Group 1 Group 3 Staging Arcs Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose. (tweening) Secondary Action Timing Group 2 Group 4 Anticipation Exaggeration Follow Through and Overlapping Action Solid Drawing Appeal

SQUASH AND STRETCH completed SLOW IN SLOW OUT completed Students Names:______

Assignment 12: Animation Principles- Evaluation rubric

Exceptional Concept Poor 0-4 points Fair 6-7 points Good 8-9 points 10 points

Research is incomplete Research is complete. Research is complete Poor or no research in some concepts. No All principles are and documented. All is apparent. All documentation or poor clearly explained and principles are clearly Research concepts are poorly documentation of additional examples explained and additional explained or incorrect resources are used to clarify examples are used to information given. No concept. Resources clarify concept. documentation of not documented resources

Poor 0-4 points Fair 6-7 points Good 8-9 points Exceptional 10 points

Project is incomplete. Project shows minimal Project shows Project shows Demonstrates a effort. Not all members adequate effort. Some exceptional effort and minimal effort. participated. Presenters lack of clarity in includes several did not speak clearly an presentation. One or examples. All Presentation or read directly form more presenters read presenters participated slide. directly from slide. in the final and each spoke clearly. Additional information was included beyond what was on the slides.

Exceptional Poor 0-7 Fair 8-12 Good 13-16 17-20 points

Animations somewhat Animations somewhat exemplify principle Animations clearly exemplify principle discussed. Animations exemplify principle Animations are discussed. Animations are of better than discussed. Animations Animations incomplete, are of are of adequate quality. average quality and are of high quality. And poor quality and lack Animations could have demonstrate some clearly demonstrate attention to detail. been improved through attention to detail and attention to detail and attention to detail and adequate use of class use of class time. better use of class time. time.

Total 40 marks

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