I’m finally home from Siggraph 2005, which was rocking. It was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a long time, although no one fell to their knees, tears of joy welling up in their eyes, at the sight of my demo reel, demanding to hire me on the spot. The trip did, however, give me renewed hope for the possibility of spinning this animation thing I enjoy so much into a career.

With my jetting across the country, and trying to absorb every singly aspect of the conference, I failed to post last weeks assignment. So here it is, a week after I actually finished it.

This week we learned about overlapping action by bouncing a ball with a tail at least 3 times. Here’s my planning and animation:
Planning for Tailor

Tailor, the ball, bounces around.

I was pretty happy with the results, but a tweaked revision will probably be posted before too long as well.

In addition, a slightly tweaked version of last session’s animation of a ball in the obstacle course can be seen here:

Ball in the obstacle course, revised.