2025.10.16

rigging as another way of drawing

use deformation to get a squash and stretch effect

frame pull: adjusting the distance between the frames to set an ease-in out effect.

special poses design

L: lasso tool

press and hold shift: select multiple at the same time
Opt+backspace: to fill
command+u: change colour

command+shift+4:screenshot

windows-arrange-new window for(file name)- 2-up vertical

to rig an eye

Use stroke tool to draw an eyelid>ctrl+p to create a peg> right click to add a mask(colour select node)>

personal project:

option1: 1 minute film

option2: 2 or 3 parts of character acting together

special effect animation: straight-ahead

task: a ball falling into water (do a few takes on one task)

tips: when object going into the water, it moves slower (the gap becomes smaller in the timing chart)

to add guide line: windows> drawing> guideline

information formats

books: subjects from a period of time/ comperhensive research upon a topic

magazines

trade journals

Internet

ual library service>Useful links(left side of the screen)> database A-Z list> EBSCOhost(ebooks)

*Tips: need to make original contribution to the conversation

Next week: present video essays for feedback

The week after: break into smaller tutorial groups

give more time to step away from the draft then go into editing

for video essay: be experimental/creative

tool: cite themright

upload video essay: moodle informed practice> Video essays> 24/25 IP2-character animation I video Essays (padlet page)

The Kuleshov Effect: images can have two functions

1. Independent entity
2. relationship with another image

juxtaposing images together, create additional meanings of images

Soviet Montage

Sergei Eisenstein: push the soviet montage movement

films: strike, battleship potemkin

put line art and colour art in different layers

Node library>auto-patch> place it by the “upper arm”> connect the auto patch from top to the “upper arm”> connect the auto patch from bottom to above the “lower arm” (Keep the auto patch above the layer that you need to patch )

peg

In the node view> select all drawings> shift+command+p> peg created

select the rotation point drawing>hit the solo key> select the peg> rotation point tool> drag the pivot point to the central of the rotation point

open the properties (yellow box) of “hand peg” and “wrist peg”> copy&paste the x and y axis values from”wrist peg”to”hand peg”

to connect the shoulder and the upper arm: (do the same to the lower arm&elbow, hand&wrist)

select both pegs> command+p> to create a peg> connect the peg to both shoulder and upper arm pegs

Add a master peg:

connect the master to shoulder&upper arm peg> connect the master to the elbow&lower arm peg> connect the elbow&lower arm peg to the wrist&hand peg

animate on the master peg with keyframes

(select peg, hit R to reset)

boiling: 1-2-3-2-1-3 (to break the same pattern)

shortcut to the padlet: https://shorturl.at/RWCsT

Colour in TV paint

• select the lineart layer
• >new
• >duplicate the strcuture
• paint bucket
• > colour the full screen
• > duble click under the colour layer frame
• > press enter (colour all frames)
• > change “source” to display
• > press left key (to clear extra colour) on the mouse outside the character lineart, create a silhouette
• > adjust “smooth””gap closer””expand” to a value that suit the lineart
• > press enter to apply this to all frames
• > adjust each frame
• > turn on”enable the stencil”, (It’s like alpha lock) to draw only inside the silhouette
• “duplicate the structure” for any other new layers of the character (hair, clothes, face..)

export to after effects

• select all the character layers&label line and colour separately
• export to
• the tab- all layers and frames
• json+images
• choose png, change the compression to 1, take out the background
• make a folder (eg. json_character_demo.)
• export
• download the json script file (from the padlet)
• file> scripts> install script file> choose the json file
• create a composition: master comp (the final work)
• name the exported composition: character

use the camera:

layer>new>camera (change the project to 3d)

• layer
• >new>null object> to put on the top of the layers
• > click on parenting tool (the spiral)
• > parent the camera to the null object
• > tick every 3d boxes of every layers (including the null object)
• >choose active camera> custom space2
• use orbit around tool and selection tool
• animate/add keyframes to the null object

when import the character:

make sure that the character is on the same z axis as the surface they are standing on.

Preferences>General: tick focus on mouse enter> Interface: untick forbid drawing on panel thumbnails