Lots of things today

1. I NEED TO DO THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrmDftTd434
The cascade that drops from cyan to red and settles at the bottom is PERFECT for when reality breaks inside the hole/cave/tunnel. Would love to have some sort of "crash" effect, like a computer just gave up. So excited!! I should play with Python more often than I have (which is, like, once...)

2. Animating a run cycle today. So far it's working, I'll pop out a playblast before I leave this afternoon. Hoping to use Clips and the Clip Editor since there running away is definitely an action that will be repeated in this project and animating it again in each sequence could get tedious.

3. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July! Being an American in Scotland, I will make my own holiday, not come into the lab, have corn on the cob and burgers and strawberries and apple pie and sit outside in the park reading my research stuff. YES.

4. Ok, so not actually a lot of things. Eh.

bouncing along

I don't have access to a scanner when I'm not at the lab or the library, but I held some sketches up to my laptop's built-in camera. These are from earlier this week when I was looking into which kind of rabbit or hare to use as reference. Settled on the desert cottontail. They don't actually live in warrens or holes as deep as the one in my story, but let's just imagine the snake warps reality a little bit or makes the ground collapse into a larger system of tunnels.



The legs on the bottom two are a little longer than I'd like. I just wanted to explore the bone structure a little bit. I also found a good link to a locomotion study to help me figure out how to make him move: http://seanlowse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/rabbit-locomotion-study.html