Alrighty...this challenge was inspired by global's post in the challenge suggestion thread.
Basically, your mission is to animate something SQUASHING and then STRETCHING in any way that you like. You can do ANYTHING...a ball...a character....a rhinocerous...whatever! This exercize is mainly to practice your....well.....squashing and stretching skills!...which, when actually put into practice can be quite tricky to get right! You might want to look at the animation in Madagascar for inspiration....but like i mentioned...you don't necessarily have to animate a living/breathing/bipedal character.
So...with that being said....I'm leaving this challenge almost ENTIRELY open. Please just try to keep the size of the video files you post down as some of us are still on dialup (but not me anymore! Yay!)
If you can't host video files, PM either me or cam and we'll throw your stuff on the simplycg server for happy viewing
Label your thread like this:
Squash & Stretch: Your Name
*Deadline is August 22