Well I managed to get another weeks worth of work done. This time around the assignment was to have two different balls that are different weights in the same scene. I dug out the ol’ video camera for this one and taped myself dropping a big pink superball and an old wooden skee-ball.* The video isn’t worth posting here, but these sketches were the result:
Sketches for two ball animation
They may not look like much, but I stuck to them, and got something pretty close to what I wanted. A few tweaks later and the final result popped out. For this one we weren’t supposed to use any squash and stretch, but instead convey the idea using those most fundamental of fundamenal: timing and spacing. Actually, I wasn’t supposed to use squash and stretch on the last one, but I missed that particular instruction. This time I stuck to the requirements.

Two balls with different weights.

I think next week we learn about squash and stretch.

Finally, I revised last week’s excitement post. Not much different, but with Scott’s suggestions, as always, a little went a long way.
revised pose 3

Other big news: I’ve been animating every day with Siggraph ’05 in mind. I would really like to have some good animation to put into my demo reel before the conference, so expect a new clip or two soon!

*Video reference fun-fact: repeatedly dropping a skee-ball on a hardwood floor will annoy the other people in the house.