The Following Followup That Follows

Is here! As promised, the second Thingamujig Of The Day for the hypothetical morning readers to wake up to! Though it still follows the date constraints of a single Thingamujig per day, as more than one could be too much cool. Too much cool, it is well known, is perfectly capable of freezing all of the fluids in a human body. Seeing as how any readers will likely be human, and human bodies tend to encase a large amount of fluid, allowing these fluids to be frozen in the reader's bodies would be not only very irresponsible, but also quite rude.

If only there could be found some witty segway to move from freezing all of my readers' bodily fluids to the Thingamujig Of The Day, which actually has little to do with freezing anything. However, it is quite cool. In fact, the plausible segeway could have been that The Thingamujig Of The Day is cooler than average, since it is almost two Thingamujigs!

Don't worry, however, it is just slightly less cool than the temperature required to freeze your body into a human popsicle.

What is this Thingamujig posessed of such coolness, you ask? It is not only a link to the webpage of The 11 Second Club, but more specifically to their resource page, wherein can be found many high quality rigs to be used for computer animation.

The 11 Second Club is the spiritual successor to the 10 Second Club, which was a monthly animation contest in which contestants created a ten second animation to a specific, monthly audio clip. However, due to various issues, the site was closed down. The domain has had a 'coming soon' banner for a good while now, and it doesn't seem it will resume at any point in the near future, if ever.

AnimationMentor.com (oh dear....this is getting cooler than I thought....so much information!) has taken the liberty of creating a successor site. Their audio clips are supplied monthly, at 11 seconds in length, with the prize being a professional critique from a seasoned animator.

Not only does The Thingamujig Of The Day contain this information, but it also links directly to their oft overlooked resource page, which contains links to a series of relatively good rigs. In the blog keeper's opinion, the androgenous "Andy" rig is the best. However, "Max" is also a very nice rig, though the Andy facial controls seem to be somewhat more capable in his limited initial tests.