Week11_Lab2

This week is e-learning, so you'll just follow on from the simple Maya tutorial exercise from Lab 1.

Go through the notes in Adding Squash and Stretch to a Ball.doc.

Create TWO ball animations with squash and stretch:

1) A small ball, like a tennis ball, with less squash and stretch

2) A more cartoony, larger ball (like a soft beachball), with lots of squash and stretch, ie. with exaggeration

In your journal, discuss the following:

1) Why is squash and stretch so useful in animation?

Squash and stretch makes the animation more realistic, where you will need to have it in the future on further animation, which will make the animation more lively and interesting.

2) Think of a situation in which extreme squash and stretch could be applied to a character - try to be original.

I think it will be when a person falls from a very high level and land on a bouncy trampoline, where he will be squash and stretch and bounce around.

3) Think of an animation example where squash and stretch would NOT be appropriate

I think will be when a person falls from a very high level on a flat ground, where it will not have the squash and stretch animation.

4) If squash and stretch doesn't really happen so obviously in real life, why do you think is it so effective in animation?
(Look at the title of Disney animator Ollie Johnston's famous book about animation - do an Amazon search ... there's a clue in the title!)

"The ILLUSION OF LIFE: DISNEY ANIMATION" , the book illustrates about how animation goes about for the disney characters and is very inspiration. I think animation will give life a more inspiration touch, to make the impossible in real life into a possible one in animation.