I am afraid that this blog entry is going to be fairly boring. I will be showing you how important it is to know about time and movement when animating. I have been focusing on learning time and movement by practising animating blocks and circles and trying to portray them as certain objects.
This first video is to show a ball moving on a time line and that sometimes it is helpful to draw a timeline to measure distance and understand time a bit better. To make the ball move slower, when you are animating you animate more frames on your timeline. More frames of the same frame will slow the ball down. More frames will also make your animation run smoother. You can animate 12 frames per second but it is recommended to animate at 24 frames per second. Using a circle or a square to do quick little animations can be useful and helpful when it comes to understanding timing and movement.
These are videos of the block moving from left to right at a steady pace, they all have the same distance on the timeline.
Block moving left to right fast.
Block moving left to right moving slow and going faster.
Block moving left to right accelerating towards the middle then de accelerating towards the end.
This video is the same as the one above but shown on a pendulum.
The same movements can be applied to make a simple circle resemble an object such as a bouncing ball. Instead of using the timeline along the bottom it can also be use along the side to signify height and speed. A bouncy ball is quite light so it will bounce quite a bit and quite high.
The same has been applied to this video to make the circle resemble a bowling ball. A bowling ball is heavy so it does not bounce much, maybe one or two little bounces when dropped from quite a height. Due to it being heavy it will fall faster than a bouncy ball.
I hope this post has helped you a little bit to understand time and movement in animation. I am still new to animation but if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or to email.
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