Fcurves and Dopesheet Exercise

Practice with the dope sheet and fcurve tools. This seemed daunting at first, but turns out to be actually quite simple. It's just a tool I need to play with a lot, to figure out how to effectively use it, but I think I know how it works at least. Using it, I can adjust the timings of keyframes, something I did a lot with the ball bouncing animation just above.

Ball exercise

Ball exercise. Timings are really difficult to get correct on this! There almost seems to be some unseen cushion to the way the objects move, although that might just be me not knowing how to work it correctly. I think it looks a bit better than the croquet exercise, but not by much. I still need to work at it.

Croquet Exercise

Croquet exercise. I really like how the croquet mallet swings on this, but the ball speed is difficult to get right. That interaction between objects is going to be a hard thing to do, I think, so I'll need to practice it a bit.

Softimage Exercise

Okay! First time using Softimage, and our task was to create a short comic using pieces of a Mr. Potatohead model, in order to get used to the basic interface and navigation system.

This is quite tricky, but I think I've got a better understanding of it now. At least, I could arrange things around a lot better by the time I got to the last panel.