Yoshi vs. Keyboard Cat

Today I finished up a Computer Graphics class at UW. The assignment for the final week was to create an animated video using all the techniques we learned about in the class, including hierarchical joint modeling, particle systems, smooth Bezier interpolation, etc..

It was pretty difficult to create and program an animation by hand without using any sort of software like Maya, so most of the class' entries were pretty simplistic. My entry was titled "Yoshi vs Keyboard Cat" and is embedded below. It's probably obvious that I did not have a whole lot of time to spend on it:

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Quite amazingly, and despite its massive flaws, the class voted it as the best animation! Several of the other student's animations were technically superior, so I think my victory had more to do with the fact that I pandered to the audience of computer-science students by including both Yoshi and Keyboard Cat in the same video. Never underestimate the power of the meme!

I won a WALL-E DVD and desk lamp: