Week 3

Week three of Animation Planning and Application allowed for more practice of ToonBoom version 4. Once again it provided an opportunity to learn on the new layout and draw rough sketches to begin with and then clean up these drawings much like traditional animation techniques. The task included drawing a tulip using the many tools provided such as the Brush, Pen, Pencil and Line tools and then using The Light Table and Layer tabs to clean up the original rough drawing.

After drawing the tulip, we had to animate the tulip moving from side to side which helped to illustrate how to plan the movement in advance by creating keyframes and then plan the inbetweens. This also helped with the adjustment of timing in the animation. The workout sheets also helped to show the user how to import an image, in this instance the image of a ladyug, and include it in the animation with the use of a peg. Although I never actually got to complete this part of the exercise, I feel it's something I can learn for the future as it's certainly a tool which will prove helpful for the final project. This is certainly something which I will look into in the coming weeks.