Found this pretty cool toy on deviantart called Line Rider

Please click “Play”. Don’t come back to me saying you “saw the fancy text” -__-”

There’s an updated and better version but requires you to install Microsoft Silverlight first.

At this moment, the video below is the highest rated one on youtube. There are many others that look better to me though. Some have colour and some have even more interesting tracks.

My classmate found this site from our lecturer: thisissand

Pretty cool site. I wonder how they programmed this. Basically every click throws in sand on the “canvas” and you can press C to change colour. It’s like those tourist sand bottle kind of thing but cooler!

Last Maya assignment. We are given this character that someone else modelled and rigged. The task is to make him jump twice. It can be any sort of jump. My friends said that my characters always move in a happy way.

The previous onion boy walked as if he had a spring in his step. This one did a happy hop.

Most of my classmates are more ambitious/faster or have more time. My friend searched parkour out on the net and did two jump across two walls and miss on the second wall, climbs over and falls down on the other side. My animation is smoother than hers but it’s way simpler. Another is going to animate a very complicated series of jumps from ground upwards into a winding staircase. I need to learn to be faster damn it. Everything I do is so damn slow. I can’t let go once I find my animation too jumpy. I keep spending time adding more keyframes and adjusting to make it smoother or I just can’t move on to expand the scope.

3rd animation assignment was to do a walk cycle. Animate the character given (onion boy) to walk a minimum of 4 steps. Again, some of my classmates did a more cartoony walk. I did a normal one but I also know that this one is a bit too robotic. The legs look ok to me but the body is still too stiff even though I already made the hip sway a little and the top of the head bounce a little.