This month our student animators are entering the 11 Second Club, the monthly character animation competition open to animators all over the world. One of the challenges of character animation is to make the audience believe that the digital puppets that we bring to life are living, breathing characters that can think and feel. This means that we need to put a great deal of effort into (amongst other things) animating our characters' eyes, for the eyes are the "window to the soul". Once simple way to keep a character alive is to have them blink - something we all do often, without even thinking about it.
