PROJECT 3: CANNONBALL!
Due Thursday, February 28th, 2019
In this project, we sought to put the Disney 12 Principles of Animation to use in animating a cannonball.
Storyboard
First and foremost, here is my storyboard for the animation:
1. Cannonball starts on the ground in front of the cannon, with the cannon tilted down
4. Cannon squashes and stretches to fire cannonball towards the ramp, with the cannonball exiting in a squashed form. Cannon also moves backwards after shot.
2. Cannon tilts upwards and cannonball jumps into the cannon (utilizing squash and stretch).
5. Cannonball enters ramp and loops around before flying upwards, stopping, and dropping back down, following the same path backwards to the cannon.
3.Cannon (with cannonball inside) tilts downwards to prepare to fire cannonball towards ramp.
6. Cannonball exits ramp and flies back into the cannon
Principles Used
This animation relies heavily on the principles of Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, and Slow In, Slow Out (with some Follow Through as well in the movement of the cannon after the shot). They are pictured below:
Slow In, Slow Out:
One of the most noticeable uses of Slow In, Slow Out is during the ball's upward arc - as the ball slows down, it loses energy and slowly eases into a point of rest, before picking up speed and falling back down onto the ramp.
Anticipation:
At the top of the arc, the cannonball pauses for a moment before falling back down - the viewer knows this must happen, but because of the telegraphed jump in the air along with the perceived weight of the cannonball, this pause allows the viewer to anticipate the fall that the ball then takes.
Squash and Stretch:
This is used in a couple of places in this animation - everything from the cannonball's initial "hop" into the cannon to the shot of the cannon afterwards to the falling of the ball due to gravity shows a little bit of squash and stretch to emphasize the movement of the ball (as well as the cannon during the shot)
Video
Below is the video for the entire sequence (unfortunately due to upload times to Wix, I am unable to post the fully rendered video with multiple camera angles as I had originally hoped):
