November Competition... Completed

I've finished my animation for the November competition, and you can see it here:

http://www.vimeo.com/17279991

I think it turned out well. I have to work on the walk cycle, and the lip syncing could use some more polish. But I think I chose some strong poses and am off to a good start. This is the first project I've actually finished since graduating. It helped that the rig and audio was provided.

I'm looking forward to giving it another shot next month. Right now I need to focus on rigging up the Dominance War V characters. I only have a week to do 6 seconds of animation! This was 17 seconds and I had a whole month. I've learned a lot this month, though, so hopefully I can speed up the process a bit. This challenge is only warm-up anyway. The real challenge doesn't start until next year, I think.

Animation underway

I've started this months challenge for the 11 second club's audio clip. Thanks to the site, I was able to download some fully rigged dummy models to block in my animation. If time gets tight, I may rig up some models of my own. But these are really well done. I could probably reverse engineer something like them if I really get ambitious, but it wouldn't be as good.

So for the next couple weeks, I'll just by playing with my new virtual dolls.