{"id":11,"date":"2005-07-17T03:43:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flavor8.com\/wkistler\/am_blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2006-05-24T04:32:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:32:36","slug":"another-week-gone-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/2005\/07\/17\/another-week-gone-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Another week gone by."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; video camera for this one and taped myself dropping a big pink superball and an old wooden skee-ball.*  The video isn&#8217;t worth posting here, but these sketches were the result:<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/images\/blog\/q1s4balls_sketches.jpg\" alt=\"Sketches for two ball animation\" \/><br \/>\nThey 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&#8217;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&#8217;t supposed to use squash and stretch on the last one, but I missed that particular instruction.  This time I stuck to the requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/blog\/q1s4balls.avi\">Two balls with different weights.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think next week we learn about squash and stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I revised last week&#8217;s excitement post.  Not much different, but with Scott&#8217;s suggestions, as always, a little went a long way.<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/images\/blog\/q1s3pose_revised.jpg\" alt=\"revised pose 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other big news:  I&#8217;ve been animating every day with Siggraph &#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>*Video reference fun-fact: repeatedly dropping a skee-ball on a hardwood floor will annoy the other people in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; video camera for this one and taped myself dropping a big pink superball and an old wooden skee-ball.* The video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}