Hi all,

I finished up my animation of Ballie doing the Maradona and kicking the soccer ball.  Right now, I 0nly have the quicktime version, but I will be adding the flash movie version soon enough.  I am fairly pleased at the moment, but I think that this one definitely deserves some attention later in order to keep tuning it and making it better.  Well, the video is below.

Before I sign off for the day, I have been reading  my friend Jacob Gardner’s blog and about his process when making his 11 second club entry.  I suggest jumping over there and having a look.  He has made some very insightful comments.  You can check it out by going to wjacobgardner.com/blog/

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Hi again everyone. I have begun class two at Animation Mentor and I am into the third week. The first week we started with recorded footage of us doing either a turn, kicking a ball, or doing a side-step. I chose to do a turn. Originally the turn was supposed to be 180 degrees, then it became 360 degrees, and then I added a ball kick to the end. Below I have posted my latest blocking pass. After receiving some criticism from my mentor and some classmates, I need to play with some of the timing and poses of this shot. One example is that I need to speed up that turn by possibly removing a few frames. We’ll see what I come up with. I’ll post more when I get it more refined. Right now, its back to work.

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