[Assignment One]: Project One

I followed my "guide" posted below and practiced animating my figure with an inanimate object-a ball, for Project One.  The trick with this is that the ball needed a rig for a few of the frames.  Here is a link to the rough cut with the rig:

After photoshoping the rig out, adding a light in After Effects and adding some rough sound effects, here is the final product:

After doing this Project, I have realized that I kind of want to go back and do it again to practice as I think the bonce of the ball could be a little more precise, as well as the stance of the figure could have been moved a little better as far as making the weight shifting more believe able (bends in knees).  For this animation, I kind of "ad libed" the animation as I went.  For the next one, I think I will story board a little more, do a flash drawing animation to get the movements right and then use that as a reference video (Project Two) for the next video (Project Three).  While I am making these next two Projects, I will be creating another armature.  This guy's arm already is starting to break because I used too thick of wire for the arms.  So while I wait for the thinner wire to be shipped to me, I will continue working with this guy.  I have to have that next Project ready to go tomorrow for Studio... looks like a long night at the computer is ahead of me!  Until tomorrow...