It’s time for 28 February to 5 March 2016. (And we’re zany to the m016.) This week’s video is a boarding to polish progress reel of my 11 Second Club entry for February 2016.

Sunday and Monday were my last days for working on 11 Second Club for
this month. I did another 5 ½ hours of tweaking lighting and scenery and polishing the movement before I sent it in. Since it was intended
be rendered in OpenGL mode, I ended up “boomsmashing” it at 7680*4320
so it would look less pixelly once it was scaled down to 1080p.

On Wednesday evening I got a chance to sit down and rate the 230
other entries. Overall I awarded a
median score of 6 (Decent) averaging at 5.8 with mostly 4s (So-so).

My hope all along was mainly to get some good crit and finish with at least a score of 4. 5 would have been great, 3 would have been disappointing. (The 11SC crowd are hard markers.) If I could make the Top 100 on my first complete entry, all the better.

And… I came in equal 90th with a score of 4.34.

The score was about what I predicted (between 3 and 5) but the ranking came as a pleasant surprise. I got a curious bit of feedback which suggested using a single sweeping sniff instead of a sniffy sniff – the very thing I threw out because another note complained it wasn’t readable. Oh well. That’s random notes for you. 🙂

The best part of having done 11SC is that I’m less apprehensive about animating and way more impressed by anyone who can do it well. It’s said that animating is acting and that’s absolutely true – many thought processes in common. But on top of that there’s physical forces to represent (either naturalistically or stylistically), and on top of that there’s the craft of creating the illusion in the first place and making it believable and compelling. That shit is hard!

But really interesting too. I could happily do more of this. 🙂

That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading!