My First Animation!

Over the past two days we learned how to animate in photoshop. With what we learned, we created our first animation: a bouncing ball!

We were taught how to make the ball appear to go faster, by setting the ball further apart in each frame, and how to make the bouncing seem more realistic, by stretching it vertically as it falls down and comes back up, and squashing it as it hits the ground.

Squash and Stretch

Squash and stretch is the first principle of animation, and is used to show weight and give flexibility to an animation.

It can be used in something as simple as a bouncing ball, or it can be used to make human facial expressions seem more exaggerated. An important thing to remember about squash and stretch is that the volume of the object doesn't change. If something is squashed vertically, it should become wider horizontally, and if something is stretched vertically, it should become thinner horitontally.

Hello!

My name is Helen, and I am part of Mr. Olson's e9 Animation class. We were told to create a blog so we could post our work over the next four years, and I am excited to share it with the class, and whoever else might come across my blog.

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www.eravens.net