Title: Penguin Aerobics
Playtime: 41 seconds
(c) 2006 drop the bomb productions

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About:Just a quick test animation for me to practice moving the penguin and the camera around.

Penguin Aerobics on Vimeo (requires flash)

Title: Penguin Flight
Playtime: 3 min 42 seconds
(c) 2006 drop the bomb productions

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About:This is my first "real" CG animation. This time I actually somewhat of a story to my animation. Look at it similar to the old black and white Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons where there wasn't a lot of dialog - just music and a simple plot. (A VERY simple plot -- in fact, plot is stretching it for this one)

The purpose of this project was to produce my first computer animation - as I had been itching to finally get something animated. I learned A LOT on this project! Key thing you'll notice I need to work on in the future is working on timing. It is incredibly difficult to figure out how long an action should last. Thus I have a bunch of parts that go a little too fast and some parts that go a little too slow. This is something I intend to work on in the future.

Finally, I'm really happy with how this video turned out, considering what it is: my first attempt at a short CGI, my first attempt at moving things around and animating them, and an impatient streak to finally get this video done which trumped any sense of being a perfectionist with this film. I decided a while back, as I fought with Blender to figure out how to do things, that this would be a very rough video so that I could learn the ropes. Later I could take my time and put out better quality animations and stress over every single detail.