Deformer animation tasks

This blog post is dedicated to deformer animation. These are short animations which have the purpose of demonstrating some of the 12 principles of animation.

The first deformer was to create a animation which has the look of bowling. Overall This task turned out pretty swell with the biggest issue being I had to restart due to technical difficulties. The bowling animation represents the eleventh principle being solid drawing. This is because it includes the basic principles of drawing form,weight and volume solidity whilst showing it in a three dimensional perspective.

https://youtu.be/8C0o9q68xOE - Bowling animation

Additionally I had to create another animation which creates a cloth like affect. For this I had to place a plane on top of a circle on MAYA. The plane was best suited to having 30 by 30 sub divisions which was a number good enough to make the plane act out like a cloth.From there I animated it out to create the final product. This falls under the second principle which is anticipation because it prepares you for a large action specifically being the cloth falling.

https://youtu.be/kUGXRvMRJ74

This animation contains two principles. The first shown is squash and stretch. This is because the animation gives the perspective that the object has weight and volume as it moves. Additionally it also shows overlapping action as some of the object catches up with other parts of itself. The other cuboid shows arcs as it follows an arc.
https://youtu.be/Q0TpPD6B_Fc- deformer animation

Overall this wasn't too bad of a job on my behalf because I show some of the principles clearly though I would have liked to make the animations longer and maybe demonstrating more of the principles.