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Hi, Some weeks ago I bought the book Animated Performance by Nancy Beiman (I recommend it here).
The book, rather than a description of technical aspects of animation, is about giving life and feelings to the animated characters.

This video is based in an exercise of that book, animate a character in a mood with respect to a ball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiL5pnACKk

The anme file is pretty simple, only tricks with layer order and a mask the head. you can download here
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzmw2d6h62y0x5c (7.1)

Five stars mate!
-G

That is fantastic, I love the animation, the movements and the anticipation, I agree with Genete, 5 stars!!

Thank you Selgin for the link to the book and your example. Your work always inspires me.

Currently I do more reading than posting here, but I intend to start putting up snip-its of what I'm working on.

The animation will be about 5 minutes in length, no voices just music. The only part of the characters you will see are their feet and the lower part of their legs. The setting is a turn-of-the-20th-century American dance hall. Say around 1910 or so. It's a gal meets guy story all told with the feet. The music is from the period of course.

Really nice! The performance shows the character feelings clearly. Not to mention the body turns and action look great!

I saw it on fb...It simply looks great, one of your best pieces!

Wow, I gotta get that book. I hope I can grasp it and apply it as well as you did!

Really nice animation, perfect work.

Thank you all, guys
I made some other tests

handball
http://www.swfcabin.com/swf-files/1292546754.swf

and sailor moon style
http://www.swfcabin.com/swf-files/1292546598.swf

PD: swf format doesn't support AS masks, so eyes doesn't look good on turns.