Jump Cycle / Box Cartoon
4. Box Cartoon
He also assigned us another simple task as homework, which was to make a rectangular shape/box jump over a break in the ground, better yet known amongst us as the ‘box cartoon’. Mr. Ahmad showed us his work as an example, and gave us free rein to do any kind of box we wished, as long as it jumped across a break in the ground. However, he did remind us to keep it simple, since we were only just starting out and some of us were slightly ambitious.
I ended up drawing a whole film/cartoon strip, where the box ran towards a river and jumped across it, and while it was jumping across, a piranha jumped up and tried to take a bite out of it, but failed. After which, the box jumped up and down in glee, before turning to walk forward, not looking at the ground and in the process, tripping over a pebble and falling flat on its ‘face’; the scene ending with a ‘SPLAT’ bubble splashed across the screen.
Mr. Ahmad mentioned that it was not a bad idea, though my animation was sometimes too jerky, and in other times, too smooth. In other words, there were issues with the timing of my animation such as the rate of number of frames per second, in addition to being able to judge the number of in-between frames needed for each key frame.
/reflections of -theKNEES.