51 Great Animation Exercises to Master

Artwork Challenges
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Disclaimer: This stunt is performed by a trained professional. Please do not try this at home.

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Use linear to represent the bounce moment.

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I also keep the all a bit at same height (floor) to make the bounce flatness/squash.

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I’ve had to pause the challenge since I’ve been flooded with work. Will resume soon, but why is everyone else not posting? Get to work :upside_down_face:

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I’ve had to pause the challenge since I’ve been flooded with work.

I think this probably is the reason for all as well xD.

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Same reason.

But I didn’t want to do further than ball animation. Me every time I look at my baby-level skilled work with the pros up there… I just cringe at myself :rofl: :sob:

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“Embarrassment is the cost of entry, if you aren’t willing to look like a foolish beginner you won’t be a graceful master.”

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8 - Flour sack waving

08 - flour sack waving

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Nice, you’re doing it. Woo! :smiley:

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Does anybody feel the need of a better graph editor?

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And we’re back. Exercise 11 (Flour Sack kicking a ball)

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Exercise 12 ( Change in Character emotion (happy to sad, sad to angry, etc.) )

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Exercise 13 (Character jumping over a gap)

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Exercise 14 ( Standing up (from a chair) )

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I’m new to Synfig. Just started learning, and thought that I could take part in these 51 exercises.

So, here is the first one, the bouncing balls (although I don’t understand why the renders are glitchy).

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Nice! I think I know why the render is glitchy; you rendered it as a GIF, Try using “magick++” next time. It will still be a GIF when exported, but the quality will be better:

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Exercise 15 (Walk Cycle)

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Thanks @Khemardi , that was really helpful. Magick++ made a significant difference. Here is the improved render, and slightly improved animation.

BTW, you are THE one from whom I learned how to use Synfig, through your YT tutorials. Awesome work. Thank you.
1_bouncing ball_d

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bounce2

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I’m glad you find my tutorials helpful :slight_smile: Good work on the exercise. You could take it a step further by adding shadows :upside_down_face: Looking forward to the next exercise

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For the first one, it appears to be floating. :hushed:

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