Flippin 'eck

This week's project was to create three flip-books, experimenting with squash and stretch, and timing and spacing. I really enjoyed this project. I'd never done any flip-booking before but it seemed fairly easy to get my head around. I made a ball bounce in place using squash and stretch, and experimented with adding a shadow to make it look more realistic.

I also made the ball bounce from one side of the book to the other, still using squash and stretch to exaggerate the movement, but also using timing and spacing more to make it move well.

I then elaborated on this, which I didn't need to do but I was having so much fun, and made the ball bounce from side to side and bouncing of the sides of the book, which I think worked quite well but it involved a lot of thinking about where the ball would rebound off to and getting the arks right to make it look realistic. (I then added a face to the ball and worked on some facial expressions to make it look more fun woo)

Then I got to think of my own thing to do for the last flip-book and decided to make a jack in the box, which proved to be quite a challenge as I couldn't decide how to make the handle of the box turn realistically but I think it kind of worked out alright. I used squash and stretch to exaggerate the box when the jack was about to pop out, and add anticipation.

If I were to go back and change something, I'd add more stretch to the Jack in the Box to exaggerate when Jack jumps out. 

I found this project overall really fun and quite easy to work out, and I'd done stop-frame animation before and this was pretty similar.

Flip-books- new favourite thing!