Saturday, September 28, 2013

Project 4: Balloon Layout and Timing Charts

Project 4: Balloon or Bubble is designed to teach a few more animation techniques as inbetweening, timing, and ease ins & outs.  

Below is a layout drawing to show the path of motion as well as the Key drawings and the inbetweens. You only want your Key drawings on this layout and not draw every single balloon position on the Layout drawing. This shows the circled Keys, the underlined breakdowns and the inbetweens and how the variety of spacing creates different types of movement.

Constant Motion is represented by B1 thru B5. The balloon enters going an even amount of speed. Notice the spacing is very even and the same. This is what the information looks like as a timing chart.
 
An Ease In is represented by B5 thru B9, the motion begins quickly and slows down gradually to the next Key drawing.
 
An Ease Out is not represented in the layout above, but its the opposite of an Ease In. The Motion begins slowly and then gains speed.
The above chart shows how B13 slowly moves to 14, 15 is further away from 13 and 16 is the breakdown and right in the middle of B13 and B17.


BALLOONTiming from Toondini on Vimeo.

Here's a way to think about the above concepts of timing, think about a stopped car.


NEXT: Making the Balloon move like a balloon.

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