A long, long time ago... It has been left from week three I think when we were supposed to create out own character containing a spring somewhere in its body. I designed Loli, a fat bird which is so fat that it actually can't fly. And because it can't fly, it has to carry his nest with its babies on his head to have them in secure. I thought it would be nice to have a character who has a "reason" for the spring. This was the character design from week 3:

The final model is made of plasticine with a foam core to avoid much weight. Its eyes are glass beads and the spring is made of aluminium wire to be animateable. And for whatever reason I didn't animate it up to last week. First I was afraid of that and later I just forgot it. But now I finally did it and it was quite fun although it's just a small animation.

I was also able to improve the matte of the reporter video just by using the uncompressed tiffs in the after effects composition instead of compressing them first into a FotoJpg sequence. Now there's less flickering at the puppet's edges, but I still didn't find out how to make the flash-video work propperly.