For my
Animation project I decided on choosing a chair for my character. I wanted my
chair character to be a school chair. Because of this he is grumpy from being
mistreated from children and is easily aggravated. His anger is shown when the
ball comes out of nowhere and hits his on the “head”. He instantly stops and
his very angry. He shows his anger by kicking the ball away and then walking
away himself. However he doesn’t know that the ball is following him in an
attempt to play with him.
I feel my
animation was successful in portraying the chairs character and had a good use
of the 12 principles of animation. The best principle used was the squash and
stretch of the ball while it bounced.
I used four
legged animals as a reference for the movement of his legs. I originally found
this hard to achieve as with most four legged animals, their back legs bend in
the opposite direction but I adjusted the movements to fit my character and its
rigging system.
I chose
having a white background and very strong shadows to communicate the chairs
mood. He is very straight forward with his moods and feelings (black and
white). He is easily made angry and this is shown through the dark shadows and
backgrounds.
