Category: with Ting

This week in Ting’s class, the focus was on showing weight through animation. The assignment was to animate two juice cartons falling, one empty and one full, to clearly communicate the difference in mass and weight. The animation was kept short (24–72 frames) and shown from side views and a 45-degree angle.

When planning this, I focused on how timing, acceleration, and impact change depending on weight. The full carton falls with more force and settles more heavily, while the empty carton feels lighter and less grounded. Small differences in spacing and follow-through helped sell this contrast.

Alongside this, I continued analysing golden poses, studying strong body poses in animation and breaking them down by focusing on clear silhouettes and weight distribution. This reinforced how even simple poses can clearly communicate physical properties like balance and mass.

This week helped me better understand how weight, timing, and pose clarity work together to make animation feel believable.

This week in Ting’s class we focused on animation analysis, specifically identifying strong golden poses in existing animated shots. The aim was to observe good animation and break it down by focusing on clear body key poses, ignoring facial animation to better understand posture, balance, and line of action.

By analysing frames from animated scenes, I looked at how the body is arranged to communicate intent and movement clearly. Drawing over the poses helped highlight strong silhouettes, weight distribution, and how the arms, torso, and legs work together to guide the viewer’s eye.

This exercise showed how much information can be communicated through a single strong pose. Studying animation frame by frame helped me better understand how professional animators use clear body poses to sell motion and character, which I can now apply to my own animation work.