Character Jump Animation

I did this assignment in school when we were doing classical animation. The assignment was to create a character jump. We were allowed to experiment a little with the character. I got the idea of using my hand to interact with the character. It was little difficult but a great fun to watch the end result.

Bouncing Ball

I thought its about time I did some Animation Mentor assignments of my own. The bouncing ball assignment teaches you the major principles of animation, namely:
Arcs.
Timing/Spacing.
Squash and Stretch.
Volume.

Doing this animation was fun and I gave character to the bouncing ball! I wanted to make him bounce 3 times at the end before he gets squished but the timing of the falling blocks had to be timed with the bouncing ball. The only possible solution I see is adding another block to make the first block rock a little longer...

Click here to watch the animation

Feel free to post feedback/critiques/comments.

P38 Textured 3D Model: Kirthy Iyer

I was just recollecting my old assignments that I did back at school. I found my textured P38 model. I really like the textures though the renders could have been worked on more to achieve realism.

And here is my color map created in Photoshop.

Some of my reference images for the texture: