One Second Challenge

I set my self the challenge over our two week break, between the first and second semester of year one at university, to do one piece of animation every day. 

This idea came from The Brothers McLeod, whose animation "365" I saw at Bradford Film Festival last November, in which they did one second of animation every day for a year to produce their short film, which can be bought here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/365film/83062918

 Being a 3D animator I took up the challenge working in Maya with rigs downloaded from Creative Crash. Because I wanted to practice more animation with cycles, most of the clips ended up being more than a second in the final video, some also just went on for longer than I had anticipated.

 The project was good practice and I noticed that the first animation I did took far longer than the final piece.

 Some days the animation is much less ambitious than others but I think there is a nice balance between simple and slightly more interesting clips.

 One thing I especially liked doing was trying out new rigs, it was really interesting to see totally different styles and types of rig, that work in new ways and are capable of more. I think it opened me up to working with new setups and I think it also helped me learn how to problem solve more efficiently; if I had a problem with a rig, I had to try and solve it myself which I think is an important skill in animation
All the rigs from creative crash can be found here:

Lizard

Batman

Bird

 Dinosaur

Dragon

Flour Sack

Man

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