Overlapping Action and Follow Through

"You are required to produce a line drawn sequence of at least five seconds of animation that demonstrates overlapping action. Basically when an object or a character stops suddenly , anything flexible will carry on moving. The greater the flexibility, the further it will continue. This can apply to parts of the character themselves e.g. cheeks and hair and of course to their  clothes and anything they happen to be carrying. Follow through enables the viewer to in the full consequences of a particular action."

For Christmas I got the book 'The Animators Survival Kit' and in this it has an example of a whip. I started off by exploring this and see how it works. I will try out the movement of the whip first and if it goes well I may add in a character using it. This is the animation I made from it....

This was ok, but didn't particularly interest me and there wasn't a whole lot going on. I felt that the 'snap' bit wasn't quite right either.

I then had another idea, I was going through some videos on my phone and found some of some friends jumping on a trampoline. I saw how their hair floated around freely and their clothes. 

So I decided to look up people jumping on trampolines on 'YouTube' to find a clearer video to work from and possibly someone doing flips to make it more exciting than someone just jumping up and down. 

From some videos I found I then sketched a few sequences of them jumping...

I the decided on a sequence...and animated it. Here is the video..

Half way through animating I became ill and so was unable to do as much as I had liked to. Then when I did animate it I found that I didn't need half as many frames as I had drawn and so there for instead of having a 5 second animation I was left with a 2 second one. However I felt I did the best I could under my circumstance at the time. I am very happy with the effect and very pleased with how real the bounce on the trampoline looks.  I the came up with another idea.. I decided to make another animation the same but when the person jumps on the trampoline and is about to do the flip I would zoom in and show it in slow motion and then cut back to being zoomed out to finish when he lands. This way you can see the overlapping and follow through of the hair etc and its a little longer...

I wasn't too sure about how the video is cut but I was pleased with the slow motion of the flip. 

Overall I found this a successful piece of work.