The Return to Mini Mobility

So, fall 2009, I took a class in Expanded Cinema with Jefferson Goolsby at the University of Maine. This was a real fun class about finding new ways to use video and projections. We did all sorts of things from showing our own films on massive walls of screens, to projecting other video onto billowing curtains of smoke falling from the ceiling.
Our first project was to utilize the portability of miniature screens on iPod Touches, if the project could be replicated on larger screens easily, then we failed. This was called the Mini Mobility project.
My idea was to make a short animation of a ball bouncing around between two iPod Touches that I would hold in my hands and be choreographed to some bit of music. It was a fun idea, and I ended up taking too long to animate the ball before the project was over.
Fast forward to last week. I'm working on my demo reel, and feel like I want to add something in really recent. I find the old renders of the first ten seconds or so of the ball bouncing around and realize I didn't need real iPod Touches...
This video is the result of just a few hours of gentle modeling and a bunch of reflections in Blender.