Followthrough Exercise

For this exercise we have been studying about the body motion and flexibility of characters and inanimate objects initiating a move. The different examples that we have seen demonstrated include cloths, hair, capes, strings, sleeves etc. During my session we had practiced illustrating a piece of string on a ball attached behind to follow its shape from the previous drawing. This exercise consisted with key numbers that are positioned in between, so when I start to animate it, it will shoot to the next key string of a number. This process that I had to complete was done frequently on animation paper. Illustrated each string following the ball behind thus followthrough, then drawing the next string on the ball on another sheet of paper, changing the length of the bounce rotation of the ball keeping it straight ahead. We were given this exercise work to do on TV paint. I animated the ball on string on each key frame and then using the skull and crossbone technique to move forward to the next duration, just by drawing the string on a new frame ensuring that it follows from the previous point of the ball.

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