51 Exercises - Flour Sack Falling (Looped)

My next exercise from the 51 Great Animation Exercises is the Flour Sack Falling.


I'm experimenting with a few things in this. The first is mixing the use of 1's and 2's on the same object. The main body of the bag is on 2's while the corners are on 1's to show them flapping in the wind as the bag falls.
The second experiment is the speed lines in the background. I've never done a quick looping effect like that before. I think I still need some practice with it, but I'm impatient and want to get this up.

51 Exercises - Flour Sack Waving

With my Animation students, I have started on the 51 Great Animation Exercises from AnimatorIsland.com. I think it is a great series of exercises and allows for my students to build complexity in their animations from one exercise to the next by slowly introducing the principles of animation.

In this animation I took the idea for the flour sack waving a little further. Instead of simply a looping waving animation, it is calling out to someone trying to get their attention. That allows me to show off more weight and overlapping action.

I hope you like it!