{"id":128,"date":"2015-09-06T04:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:46:33","slug":"animation-exercise-1-the-bouncing-ball-sept-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Animation Exercise #1 The Bouncing Ball Sept 6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem not to be able to win with posting anything on the main page seeing as there is a website selling my work. Never the less everything happens for a reason and it has encouraged me to use this site a bit for animation. So what I am going to do, is post my progress on my page and this page will be used mainly for videos and possibly podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animatorisland.com\/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master\/\">51 Animation exercises<\/a>\u00a0has been my reference for starting this path. My former mentor wanted to teach me aspect of animation but circumstances prevailed and it did not work out that way. But I can say this \u2013 he was right. Once you see the first time that your drawings move and look like they have life, there will forever be a curiosity that will never quite be quenched and that is me at the moment.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 854px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-128-1\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Compilation-of-Bouncing-Ball-Animation.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Compilation-of-Bouncing-Ball-Animation.mp4\">https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Compilation-of-Bouncing-Ball-Animation.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>At the moment I have a few goals that I want to achieve in the next 4 months.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To do one for these exercises at least every 3 weeks and post a video to show my progress.<\/li>\n<li>To redo my comic of Mada Popo. I am going to put aside what happened for Supanova and I am going to start my series.<\/li>\n<li>I would like to publish in the next 4 months. What I will publish, that remains unknown but I do want to have something sorted.<\/li>\n<li>To improve my technique. I am going to make a living from this and even if that takes a while, it is going to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Well until my next post, stay strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem not to be able to win with posting anything on the main page seeing as there is a website selling my work. Never the less everything happens for a reason and it has encouraged me to use this site a bit for animation. So what I am going to do, is post my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[110,141,140,142,130,143,131],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-blog","tag-animation","tag-bouncing-ball","tag-cartoon","tag-exercise","tag-learning","tag-reflection","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-12-at-3.05.21-pm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj-laoshi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}