I decided to choose the 2D Animation toolkit as my first choice, as I’m hoping it will help me when animating my Horniman project. The first five weeks will be about the principles of animation, and so far we’ve covered timing/spacing and anticipation.
In the first toolkit, we were asked to animate a bouncing ball, a bat hitting a ball, and a ball dropping inside a gelatinous / watery substance. I was somewhat unprepared for the first toolkit, as my animation software was acting up, so my first works weren’t too good. Plus, the application wasn’t allowing me to export the animations.
For the second week, we practiced with timing, through people throwing balls and having hairs plucked out. This time I tried a different application, Flipaclip, and did a better job.
I still need to find a stable way of animating on my computer, as Harmony is giving me problems, but this has been a fun toolkit so far.