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Overlapping Action: a pain in my butt. This weeks lesson was very good and I thought I understood it, however implementing what I thought I had learned has turned out to be more difficult than I expected. For this weeks assignment we were to download a new character, Tailor, who, as you've probably guessed, has a tail.

A ball with a tail...

Our assignment is to make Tailor bounce at least three times across the screen in a forward direction, from a side view. It didn't help that I had a busy week in my regular life, but this is by far the worst assignment I have turned in, in fact I didn't even get it finished. Bobby even talked to me about it... Not a good way to draw attention to yourself, let me assure you. Even though it's horribly incorrect and I am embarrased to show it, I swore the animation ninja plegde to lose the ego and show all my crappy work.

This first playblast is the version I turned in. It's obvious that it's not finished; the tail loses it's overlap after the first hop. It's sad too because I just started to understand how overlapping worked, and then I ran out of time.

This is my attempt to finish and tweak the assignment, and to the untrained eye it may look better, or even good, but trust me it's not.

Here is another revision, but I'm still not happy with it, and as you can see I kinda gave up at the end. What a quitter.

Eventually I will come back and practice more with Tailor. Maybe.