Flour Sack Animation

Like the standard Disney animator test, we were to give a flour sack "life." However, our assignment differed in that whereas the Disney test asks for a walk cycle, ours was to make the Flour sack do a jump, all the while giving it thought and character in the process. I think I did fairly well. The only part that wasn't well received was the impact on the other side of the gap. If you compare it to my "Bouncing Ball" animation, the flour sack has no contact process; the flour sack is in the air one frame, and in the very next frame has been squashed on the ground, as opposed to making contact with the ground and then squishing. I thought leaving out the moment of contact and instead skipping to the flour sack at its most squashed state would make for a more jarring impact, but our instructor disagreed. Lesson learned.

On the bright side, everyone liked the "flailing kicks" at the end.