AM Week 7: One Legged Jump

This week's assignment we had the choice of animating a ball with a tail or a one legged jump. I ended up doing both assignments, but found the jump to be more of a challenge - and I felt like my animation just wasn't working right - so this is the one I turned in for critique. If my goal was to get a good grade, I probably would have turned in the tail.

And this coming week, we move on to walk cycles!

The Flip and the Crab Digger

The past few weeks I was looking at getting a cam corder to record reference footage, and a friend of mine recommended The Flip. So far I really love it - is small and easy to use, and with the built in USB, easy to transfer movies to my PC, and saves in avi format at 640*480 resolution. Not much bigger than an IPod and holds about an hour of video. I don't think I'd use this as a primary camera for shooting video or home movies, but for animation reference - its great... plus I can carry it in my pocket wherever I go - never know when I might happen across a cool walk cycle when I'm out and about.

I took it to the beach with me this morning when I took Gally out for her walk. Even though we've lived by the lake for almost two years - she still digs for crabs like when we were in CA. If there are any crabs in Lake Michigan - she'll be the one to find them.

AM Week 6: Aren't you glad I didn't say bouncy ball

This week we had to animate a pendulum swing to practice overlapping action and follow through. I started out with just the plain vanilla pendulum - start and stop with some follow through - but after a recent (re)viewing of Raiders, I got this idea.

Once again this is pre-crit work - there are a couple spots that bother me that I'm plannin on cleaning up when I have a bit of time.

and now back to crunch crunch crunch crunch....

AM Week 5: and Even More Bouncy Balls

So for this weeks assignment we had to send a bouncy ball through an obstacle course. The ball starts still and under its own motivation, takes the initial jump. This was an exercise to show the principles of squash and stretch, as well as anticipation. Its been tough the past few weeks to get the assignments where I want with some crazy hours at work crunchin' on the new Mortal Kombat vs. DC game at Midway.