Well the final assignment has been handed in, and work has started on the new one. I still need to polish the last one up a bit more, based on my newest mentor notes, but it's getting there. The whole area with the balance on the first candy cane, I've never been super happy with, and slowly I'm beginning to figure out how to change it. It's not so much a matter of me not being able to decide what I want it to look like, but more a matter of having what I want translate properly with my keys and f-curves into the computer.

Much work has been accomplished on the next assignment as well: Video reference, thumbnails and first pass blocking have been more or less completed, tho many changes yet to come I'm sure. I Desperately need to fix the set, the lighting's been tricky, and I just decided to scrap the secondary character, as he's too misleading with the eye and distracts the audience from the focus of the animation. I may spend more time working with the actual struggle with the sticky door, as that is the crux of the assignment, however it was great fun to throw in some acting choices as well.

My Julio character for a side project progresses very nicely also. fully rigged and skinned now, I've done a lot with set design for this piece and am kind of finalizing the look of the character. Here's a little test of face shapes and facial hair; still using base textures at this point.