Title: Ball Bounce
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: This was the first project I completed in 2D Animation I. The assignment involved animating a ball bouncing through a scene while applying core animation principles like timing, spacing, and squash and stretch. I felt confident with the technical aspects, so I took the opportunity to add some personality to the scene by including interactive elements like a bottle and a portal to make it more dynamic and fun.

Title: Overlapping Action
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: This project was centered around the principle of overlapping action. For my approach, I started with the basic motion of a swinging pendulum and reimagined it as an airship carrying a suspended package. By reskinning the pendulum, I was able to maintain the physics of the swing while adding a creative element. While there are still a few refinements I’d like to make—particularly in smoothing out some of the motion—I’m really happy with how the scene turned out.

Title: Flour Sack
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: This flour sack animation focused on the challenge of conveying weight shifts and character intent through movement alone. I aimed to show the flour sack glancing left and right before transforming into an angel, suggesting that it was trying to be discreet or secretive about the transformation. The subtle head turns were meant to build anticipation and hint at the character’s awareness of its surroundings. While I think the concept comes through, it could benefit from more exaggerated movements or additional context to really sell the idea and make the narrative clearer to the viewer.

Title: Head Turn
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: The head turn was the first project I didn’t have time to fully color, and it marked the point where I really started to feel the increasing complexity and time demands of each assignment. The biggest challenge I faced was animating the hair consistently throughout the turn—it took several attempts to find something that worked. I ultimately settled on giving the character a ponytail with two long strands in the front, as it moved the most naturally and looked the best in motion compared to my earlier designs.

Title: Weight
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: For the weight project, I used a reference video of a girl struggling to pull a heavy table on her own. Rather than simply recreating the scene, I decided to take a more playful approach by animating a tiny fairy trying to move an enormous log. This added a bit of humor and fantasy to the challenge while still focusing on the core principle of weight . It was definitely one of the more difficult assignments, especially since it required full-body animation, but it really pushed me to think about how movement and body mechanics convey physical strain.

Title: Walk Cycle
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: For the walk cycle project, I chose to animate a cat. I’ve always enjoyed drawing animals more than people, and I figured animating four legs might actually be more intuitive than figuring out what to do with two human arms. I used reference footage of a cat walking to capture the key poses and understand the timing and positioning of each leg as it moved. The most challenging part ended up being the tail, especially since I chose to position it differently from the reference, which required some extra adjustment. I had a lot of fun bringing personality to the head—adding expressive whiskers and big floppy ears really helped bring the character to life.

Title: Dialogue
Media: Toon Boom Harmony
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: For the dialogue project, I struggled at first to choose the right audio clip. I eventually landed on a voice line from a character in a video game I enjoy, which felt like a fun way to connect the project to something personal. To bring the character to life, I recorded myself acting out the dialogue as a reference, which helped add more natural movement and expression to the animation. If I had more time, I’d love to go back and add more in-between frames to smooth out some of the rougher transitions and reduce the jumpiness. The biggest challenge was definitely managing all the moving parts—lip sync, body language, and timing—at once.

Title: Flour Sack Gesture Drawings
Media: Procreate
Class: 2D Animation 1
Professor: Dana Corrigan
Term: FA 24
Institution: The University of Tampa
Description: Before animating our flour sack, we practiced with gesture drawings to explore the character’s form and movement. The goal was to sketch the sack in various poses and from different angles while maintaining consistent proportions. This exercise helped build a stronger understanding of how to keep the character flexible and expressive, even with such a simple design.