This week in the stopmotion suite I decided to do a second attempt at doing the run and jump stopmotion exercise. Using feedback from last week I could tell that the areas I needed to work on were the height of the jump and the speed of the armature running. Much like before I used the rig to support the rig when doing the running poses, as I felt it improved my lifting crate animation considerably. I started the animation with anticipation of the rig preparing to run, then have him run along the stage, and I decided to slow it down at the jump. The running was done at 1 capture frame as I felt it would show speed in the run and then revert to 2 frame capture frames to show the slowing down before the jump as I observed from my reference footage.
I felt after playing it back it was a significant improvement over the last animation piece in momentum and speed. So I proceeded in removing the rigs. However whilst I removed the rigs using a blank frame in the timeline as I reached the midway point I couldn't go any further. I closed the tools section of the software and discovered that several frames were missing. This had gotten me anxious and concerned, I didn't know why the frames vanished or how, and I was worried that they had been deleted and I would need to start all over again. I decided to check the editor option in the tool bar and I saw that some of the beginning frames had been hidden so I selected each of them whilst holding the shift key on the keyboard.
However I brought back one too many frames in the beginning and so I scrolled through the timeline, and deleted the additional frames. The rigs were then removed from the animation and rendered to my pen drive along with the rig version. Looking back on the task I would think there were a few concerns within the animation. One of which would be the sudden disappearance of the frames in the timeline without any commands given to the software to do so. I would think that the impact the recently hidden frames had on the animation made some of the running and anticipation frames slow down more than they were supposed to. In hindsight I should've asked for a second opinion on the matter of this incident so perhaps Johny, Joe or James could tell me how to handle this better in the future.
I didn't see this incident happening in this exercise as its never happened to me before, so I wasn't sure how to deal with this until I calmed down and walked through it slowly to find the source of the issue. I was able to recover the frames, but I still wasn't sure how this could've happened in the first place. In conclusion I would think that I would need to be extra vigilant with my frames in the stopmotion timeline to make sure they wouldn't disappear. But I was able to finish my animation from this incident and it was a small significant improvement over my previous attempt.
In future I shall take great care when removing the rigs and ask for advice on this incident to prevent it from happening again.
I felt after playing it back it was a significant improvement over the last animation piece in momentum and speed. So I proceeded in removing the rigs. However whilst I removed the rigs using a blank frame in the timeline as I reached the midway point I couldn't go any further. I closed the tools section of the software and discovered that several frames were missing. This had gotten me anxious and concerned, I didn't know why the frames vanished or how, and I was worried that they had been deleted and I would need to start all over again. I decided to check the editor option in the tool bar and I saw that some of the beginning frames had been hidden so I selected each of them whilst holding the shift key on the keyboard.
However I brought back one too many frames in the beginning and so I scrolled through the timeline, and deleted the additional frames. The rigs were then removed from the animation and rendered to my pen drive along with the rig version. Looking back on the task I would think there were a few concerns within the animation. One of which would be the sudden disappearance of the frames in the timeline without any commands given to the software to do so. I would think that the impact the recently hidden frames had on the animation made some of the running and anticipation frames slow down more than they were supposed to. In hindsight I should've asked for a second opinion on the matter of this incident so perhaps Johny, Joe or James could tell me how to handle this better in the future.
I didn't see this incident happening in this exercise as its never happened to me before, so I wasn't sure how to deal with this until I calmed down and walked through it slowly to find the source of the issue. I was able to recover the frames, but I still wasn't sure how this could've happened in the first place. In conclusion I would think that I would need to be extra vigilant with my frames in the stopmotion timeline to make sure they wouldn't disappear. But I was able to finish my animation from this incident and it was a small significant improvement over my previous attempt.
In future I shall take great care when removing the rigs and ask for advice on this incident to prevent it from happening again.
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