Long needed update

A few things I need to post.
Firstly, I went to Bradford Animation Festival 2 weeks ago. Lots of inspiration despite the bleak surroundings. To mention a few The Backwater Gospel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDrIacHJM
The Monster of Nix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJbMufI4xEg&feature=related
The Morning Stroll and Out of Erasers (sorry no links).
There were a few good seminars also, but I cant remember their names so I will post them later.

Secondly a few bits of work.

Squishy- A ball rig was given to us to animate in a location of our own creation. Unfortunately I struggled to get textures to work properly, the end of the animation was cut off and I think the location lacked imagination. Oh well, I'll do better next time.

Burt Walk Cycle- Once again we were givern a rig of a simple robot type character, which we then had to do a walk cycle for. The rig also had simple facial controls which we also had to use. I was quite happy with the outcome as I was not present for the associated lecture. Dam money problems!

Flash Lip-Sync Exercise - Once again this was a exercise that was set on the day which I was not present.
So I was quite pleased with what I managed to churn out. The exercise was to create a animation using Flash that synced up with audio from the 11 Second Club competion for this month. I think I might try and do more work on this one to try include some character movement and maybe some camera moves also.

Basic Cube Character Jumping, ending with an emotion.

For Animation Principles we were given an exercise of drawing a simple cube character jumping from A to B, with a emotion after landing. We had to demonstrate anticipation in lead up to the jump, squash and stretch and overlap on the landing.

If I were to do it again I would extend the beginning and the end by repeating the first and last frames a few more times.

Storyboard Workshop Exercise

We had to choose 1 of 3 exercises, I went for the first, which was:

Two objects, travelling at different speeds, are on a collision course.

I chose a cat who was unwittingly running towards one of my previous characters, Mahatma The Hat Bandit, which collects hats and also cats. He is travelling slower as he only has 1 leg to hop along on.

Collaboration Joint Animation

The assignment was to create an 5-10 second animation starting with the last frame of the person in front of me and passing on my last frame to the next person of the list. Each person on this list was given a topic to include in the animation, mine was a cathedral. The principle behind this was basically to improve inter-personal skills between class members.
Unfortunately I hit a few problems, and missed the deadline. :( Means I got loads to learn!
This is in 12fps, as its a bit easier to see whats going on.

Bouncing Ball Animation

Even though I was not present at the lecture when this assignment was given, I used the information I did receive to create this.
What I did know was that we had to demonstrate squash and stretch on a bouncing ball and that it had to be either 12/24/25 frames per second. This had to be looped 8 times.
I hope it filled the criteria of the assignment. 

1st blog! Circle animation re-doo

I re did my circle animation. Filmed through green acetate to achieve the colour i wanted. I also managed to get the timing abit better than than the previous version. Not sure why the colour distorts though, Youtube?