K12 Project and Assignment 4: Animate a Creature and a Monkey

Sorry for the slow blogging–between my Blender classes on K12 (or k12?) and Japanese on the same system, I’ve hardly had much spare web time at all.  Now then, back to the namesake of the title of the post of the blog of the guy.
As mentioned, I’ve animated my creature, “Jason the Jumper,” who is not jumping–merely walking.  I realized that I like to do a lot of background stuff, adding a soda drink, table and ground.  However, I did give Jason a path to follow.  I wanted to have him go up and down while running, but I decided it’d just be a lot of trouble for very little benefit.

Second, my Assignment: Animate Suzanne.  This one I had a little too much fun with–it was more work.  However, this turned out as possibly my most difficult animation yet–I made the monkey flip.  I used both a path and manually moving it.  It’s hard to notice, but I also made a short path for the camera to follow–going down and then  zooming in (something I had to do to make sure the video captured the whole flip).

I’m almost done with Project and Assignment 5; I’m just working on the “special additions” for them.  However, this is very good news, because hurricane Sandy is coming into my area, and I’m bound to lose power for a few days.

I am now over half-way through my k12 assignments!!!*
*or is it K12?  Hmmm…
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