Ah, the 21st century filled with never-ending technology goodness and more empty pockets. I feel like most first year students would agree with me that we were all pretty excited to test out the giant Wacom Cintiq that the university has a few of in studios. [P.S.: IT IS GREAT!]

Before our first practice session on 2D, our lecturer gave us some links to learn TVPaint's interface before the practice session commenced on that week. I couldn't go through the entirety of <this video> because the voiceover was way too difficult to understand. He also told us to watch another <video> which was documented by Aaron Blaise (he used to work as an animator/supervising animator on 'Mulan', 'Pocahontas', 'The Lion King', and more) which gives us a quick start overview on TVPaint 11, and yes, I went through the entire 54 minutes of it.

After our first 2D practice session with Georg, we were given two tasks:
1) animate a bouncing ball (with no squash and stretch), following arcs.
2) animate a bouncing ball bouncing around a 3D room (with no squash and stretch)

So... here goes:

1) Bouncing ball with arcs (no squash and stretch):