Quick note on Week 6...

Well! Week 5 has come and gone. Welcome to week 6! And to ring in the new week, we've been given a tail! Goody! Our balls now have a furry-like tail that is meant to help us address the newest principle of animation, "overlapping action". I'm glad to see this addition because I had started to get a little discouraged by all of the purely physics-based animations. I understand we're building up skills, and so simplicity and focus helps to do that, but it's not really animation. Animation to me is acting, finding a character within the puppet and expressing that physically. Even just walking around or jumping or whatever, there's unique expression, and unique body movement that really give it life and believability. To this point, we're not doing that for the most part, so it was good to see we get a new element of the character to play with that can hopefully be used expressively. So here we go! Week 6, animating with a tail!