You Can't Turn Back The Clock But You Can Wind It Up Again.

My first Module on my current course was simple Traditional Rotoscoping Animation, I had covered Animation about 3 times on my last course which was National Diploma Interactive Media so I had a decent grasp on the principles of Animation, methods and the general background of 2D animation as a whole, it's an area of Animation which really interests me and is mainly where I wish to specialise, that said, 2D Animation isn't as mainstream as it was when I was young and now the industry consist's mainly of 3D Animation, not all of which is good.

It had been over the Summer before starting FD Animation that I took a huge interest in the Clint Eastwood character, Harry Callahan from Dirty Harry, it's said that the walk cycle is the hardest aspect of Animation to do which is why you should cover it straight away, with that in mind I tried to do a Harry Callahan walk cycle, this was my first attempt at traditional 2D animation, all prior work had been Flash based. Looking back at it, it's very jittery and the walk cycle itself is far too forceful, the back should be straight and what I ended up with was a walk cycle with running attributes.

The second Animation was a complete failure, reminiscent of Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, the purpose was to try and make the hand type on a laptop with a foot hopping past, stopping and staring then hopping off again, what transpired was nothing more than an Animation with poor anatomy continuity and a simple premise with no story. 

  

What it boiled down to eventually was an attempt to make a decent 2D Animation, coloured with Marker's and smooth running, I used the concept of a Troll in a Jar, I still like it looking back at it and for a first module I wouldn't say it's too bad, it can definitely be improved upon, for me it looks far too much like Ren from Ren and Stimpy.

 

This was my first module in a nutshell, personally after this, I believe it went downhill, mainly because I was too ambitious in what I wanted to achieve though I'll explain that in more detail when I get to it. Anyway, let me know what you think if you can and I think that's everything I need to cover... I bet I've missed something.