Hello hello!

For my most recent assignment in my animation class, we had to animate a character named Squiddy getting ready to do a jump and then jumping!

I really, really, really enjoyed working on this assignment. I love anything involving character animation, so working with Squiddy was a blast. In addition to animating a jump, we had to do just a little title start scene. I decided to give Squiddy a very small narrative about how he got to where he’s doing the jump.

I unfortunately do not yet have the full narrative to share, but this is all of the animated part. It was really fun learning how to make his jump more natural and I had a few dumb moments where I forgot to touch a part or two of his rig.

My favorite part to animate was the moment where Squiddy lands. I feel like the bounce really adds liveliness to him and really sells that he is this blob creature. I also enjoyed making him fall, mainly because I find it funny. Part of me really wishes that Squiddy were real and that I could touch him.

To go along with the narrative element, I drew this little picture of what I think Squiddy and his parents would look like together.

In my head, I think Squiddy lost his parents when he was young and that their deaths led him to start exploring unsafe places.

Working on this assignment has easily been one of my favorite things I’ve done this semester. There is just something great about animating a cute character rig and saying “yeah, I animated that.”

Thank you for reading!!