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Date: 2019

Field: Illustrations / Animation

School: Hyper Island / Karlskrona. Sweden

Program: Motion Designer / 2021 KNA

Instructor: Kajsa Råsten

Course: 02 - The fundamental crafts and tools of motion design / 05 The 12 Principles of Animation with Kajsa Råsten

Kajsa Råsten taught us about the 12 Principles of Animation. A “bouncing ball” has to be the ultimate starting point for an animator as it entails most of the principles in one action. I wanted to expand on that exercise and in the course "fundamental of crafts and tools of motion design" at Hyper Island we had the first real opportunity to create our own animation from start to finish.

I wanted to create an animation that explored some of the early learnings, "the first 3 weeks" of Hyper Island. It turned into a sort of "meta video" that explained the structure of the classes at the school in Karlskrona, as well as the bonds and group dynamics that form between the students working on projects together.

Initially I thought of this animation as a way for me to interpret and explain in my own words some of the core aspects of the learning experience that Hyper has developed through the years. I saw this as a task for me to learn the theories and also as a useful way of learning the "hard tools" (the programs), and in so doing "kill two birds with one stone." It would also be a way for me to memorize the names of my classmates.

I found it fitting to do our class list as a periodic table, as we all have our own characteristics and properties and in projects we will be working on creating new stuff together. Compiling and forming new elements. I noted down and wrote scripts for some of the main lessons and figured I might do a series of them. They were meant to have an old school explainer video feel to them.
This animation was the first one in that series and coincidentally my first "real" animation.

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