Level 1 Exercises & Deadlines

Level 1

#	Exercise	Start Date	Deadline	Time Frame
1	Ball Bouncing in place, no decay (loop)	April, 21 2014	April, 22 2014	1 day
2	Ball Bouncing across the screen	April, 22 2014	April, 23 2014	1 day
3	Brick falling from a shelf onto the ground	April, 23 2014	April, 24 2014	1 day
4	Simple character head turn	April, 25 2014	April, 29 2014	2 days
5	Character head turn with anticipation	April, 29 2014	May, 1 2014	2 days
6	Character blinking	May, 1 2014	May, 2 2014	1 day
7	Character thinking	May, 5 2014	May, 7 2014	2 days
8	Flour Sack waving (loop)	May, 7 2014	May, 12 2014	3 days
9	Flour Sack jumping	May, 12 2014	May, 19 2014	5 days
10	Flour Sack falling (loop or hitting the ground)	May, 19 2014	May, 23 2014	4 days
11	Flour Sack kicking a ball	May, 23 2014	May, 30 2014	5 days

Level 1 (second round)

I want to thank Isai Calderon for making this new deadline for the new members and people who wants to start again with level 1

Exercise	Start Date	Deadline	Time Frame (days)
Ball Bouncing in place, no decay (loop)	July 10, 2014	July 11, 2014	1
Ball Bouncing across the screen	July 11, 2014	July 12, 2014	1
Brick falling from a shelf onto the ground	July 12, 2014	July 13, 2014	1
Simple character head turn	July 13, 2014	July 14, 2014	1
Character head turn with anticipation	July 14, 2014	July 16, 2014	2
Character blinking	July 16, 2014	July 17, 2014	1
Character thinking	July 17, 2014	July 19, 2014	2
Flour Sack waving (loop)	July 19, 2014	July 22, 2014	3
Flour Sack jumping	July 22, 2014	July 25, 2014	3
Flour Sack falling (loop or hitting the ground)	July 25, 2014	July 28, 2014	3
Flour Sack kicking a ball	July 28, 2014	August 2, 2014	5

Level 2 (coming soon)

Level 3 (coming soon)

Level 4 (coming soon)

We are starting  on March 21, 2014 with the first Exercise.

I set these deadlines based on my experience.  Most studios won't give you more than a week to animate 1 character. 

The deadlines are there just to add pressure.  If you are like most animators, you should know by now that most of us are stuck on a never ending "working on my reel" cycle.  There's a time frame for each exercise.  If you can't make the deadline you can work at your own pace, but keep in mind the deadline is there so you keep moving through the assignments and working on them together as group.

Happy Animating!