Bouncing Characters & Animators of Interest.

Within this exercise I looked to characterize the ball animation previously made, with this I created three different shorts. This involving a reindeer type character (green), one eyed alien (green/red) and a round floppy figure (blue). Each displaying various limbs that flex from one shape to the next, this can especially be seen in the alien and blue figures and the arms/legs/tentacles flow from one shape to the next.

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Animators of Interest:

Bill Plympton:

Horn Dog  (2009).

The Tune (1992).

Bill Plympton is an American sketch animator from Portland, Oregon. he is best known for his works on Cheatin' (2013), Idiots and Angels (2008) and I Married a Strange Person (1997). Most of his works include a variety of surreal effects that we know wouldn't be humanly possible in real life and the use of over the top slap-stick comedy as seen in the clip of The Tune  (1992) and Horn Dog  (2009) clip. Plymptons interesting use of characterizing his comic through over stretching and squishing frames adds a jerky yet fluid motion within his shorts, making it draw in the audience as they focus on the exaggerated movements of the characters/objects being animated.

Richard Williams:

The Return of The Pink Panther  (1975).

Who Framed Roger Rabbit  (1988).

Richard Williams is a American animation artist who has worked on a variety of films these being The Return of The Pink Panther  (1975), The Little Island (1958) and most famously of all Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Williams' style of animation is more refined and detailed; but no less iconic than any other style out there. Williams' use of stretch, squish and fluid movements within his works adds further personality to the characters he is trying to portray to the audience; this explicitly seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit  (1988) as the variety of animated characters allows arrange of techniques to come together, as one frame flows through and overlaps the last.