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Some more things from animation school!

You all probably are already at least vaguely familiar with the "rule of thirds" composition thing, but I for one certainly didn't know there was equivalent tricks to cater to animation purposes as well! Though it seems obvious if you think about it.

So what is meant by that, is that you can arrange your background in such a way that it "supports", "accentuates" the movement of the character,, in quite subtle ways too. We saw examples that either enforced the direction of movement, or suggested there being "progression". Not sure how to best explain the latter without just pointing at examples like i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/9c/f… (the pillars are just very slightly inclined,, it can be very subtle,, but imagine how much more static and enclosed the image would look if they were completely vertical)

The last couple of thumbnails, we were simply asked to do a couple of examples that show a majority of either verticals, horizontals or diagonals. (curves are also an option in that category, but wasn't asked for, this time)

btw the first example for the blue-stuff (the one with the doggo) was critiqued to be too "symmetrical", i.e. it rather looks like a circle than one curve "pushing" a second one. I could raise that stone-wall a bit to make it clearer. And the second blue, the one with the hooded figure and temple, was critiqued that it would have a better flow if the character was moving away from us, since the curve of the sculptures-foot could act as a direction line, pointing thus away from us -towards the figure.

Some other points that were mentioned in general:
-With the rule of thirds, avoid being too obvious. The point of interest doesn't have to be spot-on perfect on one of the intersections.
-Don't have everything pointing towards the character, have some objects point slightly off, or away from it to make things look more natural.

Also, this exercise was completely free concerning themes or subjects, so here's me just coming up with a bunch of random stuff

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Some more things from animation school!

You all probably are already at least vaguely familiar with the "rule of thirds" composition thing, but I for one certainly didn't know there was equivalent tricks to cater to animation purposes as well! Though it seems obvious if you think about it.

So what is meant by that, is that you can arrange your background in such a way that it "supports", "accentuates" the movement of the character,, in quite subtle ways too. We saw examples that either enforced the direction of movement, or suggested there being "progression". Not sure how to best explain the latter without just pointing at examples like i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/9c/f… (the pillars are just very slightly inclined,, it can be very subtle,, but imagine how much more static and enclosed the image would look if they were completely vertical)

The last couple of thumbnails, we were simply asked to do a couple of examples that show a majority of either verticals, horizontals or diagonals. (curves are also an option in that category, but wasn't asked for, this time)

btw the first example for the blue-stuff (the one with the doggo) was critiqued to be too "symmetrical", i.e. it rather looks like a circle than one curve "pushing" a second one. I could raise that stone-wall a bit to make it clearer. And the second blue, the one with the hooded figure and temple, was critiqued that it would have a better flow if the character was moving away from us, since the curve of the sculptures-foot could act as a direction line, pointing thus away from us -towards the figure.

Some other points that were mentioned in general:
-With the rule of thirds, avoid being too obvious. The point of interest doesn't have to be spot-on perfect on one of the intersections.
-Don't have everything pointing towards the character, have some objects point slightly off, or away from it to make things look more natural.

Also, this exercise was completely free concerning themes or subjects, so here's me just coming up with a bunch of random stuff