Sometimes I forget you're from SC, and I saw Clemson and was like "HOLY CRAP WAIT WUT YOU'RE LIKE JUST DOWNTOWN." XD
This looks awesome! I envy you, I've always wanted to take an animation class <;w;> Just gotta, you know... get into a college *sob*

Oh ooh wait you're from Clemson(or nearby) too? WHAT? X'D Have we met before? I go to some furry gatherings but it's awful hard for me to remember faces!

The Digital Production Arts classes here have been so fun for me; this is my last semester of mandatory classes, but I'll be taking more next semester anyways because I love them so much!

I did have a little bit of a head start because I got The Animator's Survival Kit years ago and started practicing on my own. It's a super useful book if you can get your hands on it. =D

Nah I dont think we've ever met, I havent actually gone to any meetings Im always too husy with work lol XD
I live in irmo, there's a Clemson campus nearby though!

My tutors told me to get this book but was poor at the time and you just reminded me about it xd
I am starting Maya early next month ^w^

I would add 2 black, oblong dots, then instant sandbag from SSB!

That is genius why didn't I think of that xD

Is it too late? Dunno how easy it is to edit such things.

It's doable, but we've already been handed our next assignment so I'd have to come back later :p

Ok! just an idea though.

You go to Clemson? Wow, I had no idea you were that close (relatively) to my backyard. I'm in NC, about middle of the state. This is really cool, how long did it take you to make this?

Haha, thank you! ^^ I'd estimate it took around 4-5 hours, a lot of on and off because I'm not experienced enough to eyeball everything that might look strange in one go yet. A lot of time was also spent hopping around in front of my desk so I could get a good idea of how it should lean and how high the jumps should be. XD

Okay, cool.

Nice and bouncy!!

I took animation in highschool, the first semester was 2D and the second 3D. It's a lot of fun. Since then, I've been teaching myself how to use Blender.

If you want an honest critique, I feel like the bag is suddenly popping into the air, rather than landing and jumping. The bag might look softer if it slowed down and squashed when hitting the ground. Still, it looks pretty cool, for a beginner project.

Ah, I see what you mean! :D Thanks a lot! I'm going to take it into consideration for my future projects; that's really useful advice!

Also, please do let me know if you've got animation work floating around on the net somewhere too. I feel like I learn best by observing, and I definitely need to follow more animators' works.

Oh sure thing! I still have a couple of them on Youtube. There's a music video from highschool and a more recent 3D one.

I found studying animation principles like squash-and-stretch, follow-through or slow-in-slow-out was really interesting and useful. They all come from 2D animation but most of them still apply. Oh and don't forget keyframes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l.....I-S0MINnNNjFgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNr.....I-S0MINnNNjFgg

Aaaah, thank you so much for the links! I plan to post my assignments as I complete them, so (hopefully) there is improvement as I get a feel for it! C:

I meant to link this before but I couldn't find it, it's not mine but I thought it was cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdU_g13L3zc

Oh my gosh, faved, thank you so much
We've gone over all of these and I understand them, but wow, the practice is a whole new animal far tricker to handle than the theory! X'D