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Flour Sack 

Completed October, 2024

The Flour Sack animation project was meant to explore the realm of 2-Dimensional animation processes. Through frame-by-frame drawings on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Animate, we learned the principles of animating emotion to carry out our own twenty second story about a flour sack. With this creative liberty, I decided to formulate a calming kitchen scene in which this flour sack has a silly encounter with the resident's cat. 

Storyboards

I first began with the storyboards of this animation, making sure to include proper squash and stretch as well as the needed emotion to carry out the scene. I ended up creating 24 panels to convey the flour sack being pushed off the table by the cat, being hit by falling utensils, and lastly getting squashed by the cat in the end.

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BACKGROUNDS

I then worked in creating the backgrounds, focusing on how the camera angle changes throughout the story. The first section of the animation begins with a wide view of the kitchen scene and then pans to below the table with an upwards viewpoint. the perspective then changes to the floor where the flour sack landed and then with a pan down to represent the cat's point of view.

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KEYFRAMES, EXTREMES, BREAKDOWNS & INBETWEENS

The two videos below display the process of completing frames for the animatic. Because we decided to complete this project through the technique of pose-to-pose, we completed the keyframes and extremes based on our storyboards, which was then followed by including the breakdowns and inbetweens to complete the frames needed for smoother transitions. 

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The keyframes can be shown in red, which indicate the most important moments within the story. The extremes can be shown in blue to indicate the farthest movements a character makes.  
 

The breakdowns can be seen in green and they serve to smooth the transition between keyframes and extremes. The inbetweens can be seen in grey as they create an even more seamless transition between each frame. ​
 

FINAL ANIMATION

After completing the breakdowns and inbetweens, we worked in recoloring the outlines and adding color to the flour sack itself. I tried to focus on the highlights and shadows to give the impression that the scene was occurring late in the day with the sun shining through the kitchen window. 

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