Bouncing Ball Animated Shorts and Animators of Interest:

In this exercise I looked to create two shorts. The first being a ball bouncing and then rolling back on its self from rebounding off the post at the end of the sequence. Within this, the ball is characterized through the squish and reshape of the ball as it hits the ground and repels up to come back down, creating a comic look for the viewer.

The second having a ping-pong, tennis and bowling ball dropping down and then coming to a stand still; this then eventually breaks away and the balls fall through the gap. Each of these balls have a different dropping rate in terms of spacing and movement; taking into account the weight of each object will then reflect in how quick it will fall and how high it may bounce up. This seen throughout the short.

Animators of Interest:

Lotte Reiniger:

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).

Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger was a German director, writer and animation artist from 1919 -1981, whose works explore that of the silhouette form, creating shorts that vary in monochrome tones as well as tinting of the show reels in coloured dye (so what was once white becomes the colour of the dye), of which can be seen in Reiniger's animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). Using this technique at the time these animations where made, it was a step forward in colour cinematography as it helped define scenes within animated films; for example colours like amber and yellow were used as day time colours where as blue was used to imply the night.

Don Hertzfeldt:

REJECTED  (2000).

Donald 'Don' Hertzfeldt is an American animator who is known for his work on the World of Tomorrow (2015) and The Simpsons (1989). Hertzfeldt works uses that of stick figure nature; in contrast to Reiniger's work which is more elaborate, and has a dark sense of humor undertone as seen in his REJECTED  (2000) short film. Within Hertzfeldt animations viewers can see the jittery nature of his shorts, this being because the animator uses more traditional means to form his animation - pen, pencil and paper - allowing his work to emit a kinetic appearance as frames move and shift from one to the next.