Animation ideas???

[sarm2005]

Need to create a simple animation for programming class using frame-by-frame animation. I'm not the best artist so any ideas for creating something that's easy to draw but also interesting.

[syntax_error]

factorial tree.

art mind not needed. Only math.

[sarm2005]

Um. That's not what I meant by a frame-by-frame animation

[Tony]

I suppose it could be.

I think the idea is to draw shapes in relation to the for-loop counter. You should try to keep it simple -- the less shapes you have, the easier it is to keep track of everything. To make it more interesting, consider incorporating curved paths into the animation. Think sin/cos.

[TokenHerbz]

A growing plant would be really interesting to create...

But if you want something basic, try something along the lines of flying, weather it be a bird, or a plane, perhaps even avoiding objects to get the movement to stand out more..

I personally would probably just make two people walking beside each other towards the screen you look at, having the arms and legs move...

[Tony]

TokenHerbz -- animating people to move is incredibly hard. Any organic motion is quite complex.

[TokenHerbz]

Well it doesn't have to be exactly perfect..

What moves in a simple motion then, a snake?

[riveryu]

You can make a sunset + any other moving the envoirment in which the sunset is taking place. simple sketch bird? the sea? landscape? moving animals etc.

this idea could be overused though im not sure

[Bored]

I think riveryu has a good idea there with the sunset, having the suns co-ords being the cosd and sind of the loop variable. If you really want something hard you could try using the drawarc to make fyling stick birds, the arks being the two wings.

[Tony]

the sunset is a brilliant idea.. it's fairly simple, but it could be made interesting with an arc path. You can add another layer of complexity with having the colour change gradually from yellow to orange. And background from light to dark.

[lordroba]

i remember i did a matrix style fight scene for my animation project. The people were stick men so they weren't too hard to animate. One of the guys ended up exploding at the end into tiny green particles.