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!
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.
