Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Nov 17th - Dec 7

Till break i had about 245 frames of my left hand and 150 of my right hand drawn out for my rotoscope.

I worked by tracing every-every other frame of my hands, one hand at a time.
I ended up tracing my hands around 600-700 times between how many times i re traced from messing up.

Over break i worked all night thursday, friday, saturday night till 5 am, And while i worked i re watched all of samurai jack to help pass time.

I came back to school with my project almost complete, i just needed to animate about 100 frames of my right hand, and add in the blob.

Added in blob by working blindly, this messed me up a few times, and had to re do some sections to get timing right (Clap of the hands).

It was originally a solid white, but i preferred the look of the empty blob

Worked for about 4-5 hours to finish the blob and have it tweaked to look right.
No jumpy movements, trying to make sure i didn't over do it when it was moving fast.

Finished the Animation final Monday night, had it ready for class the next day.
Finished the project with about 20-24 Hours of work time.

Came to class, had crit, took 15 minuets and added a title scene and fade out to the end. Entire animation ended up at about 20 seconds.

This past week i made the powerpoint for my presentation, and found a video to go along with it of pixar working on The Incredibles.
I just made a powerpoint of general information about the company because surprisingly i couldn't find much information on them.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Nov 17th

Worked on animatic for final project for 45 mins.
Completed animatic
Nothing fancy, poorly drawn sections but it gets the point across.

Nov 16th

Finished plans for final project
Rotoscoping myself and adding in blob like creature.
drew out storyboard, and then made work plan

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Nov 13th

Think about/figure out what im doing for animation final.
doing rotoscoping, and add in a frame by frame blob thing reacting with me.

Nov 11th

Worked on stop motion with Erik and Ariel.
Used white board to draw, made bunny eaten by blob, blob being stabbed and turned into candy.
Then a goomba being smooshed.
And a doodle.

November 9th

Worked with Erik and Ariel on stop motion animation.
Unwrpapped and used starburst.
Then moved an octopus throught the camera.
Then Ariel and Erik drew.
Then Ariel used wire and made it slither across the screen.

We then planned for the final for stop motion

November after RFC (first week)

Started doing Rotoscope animation.
Recorded self giving thumbs up and drew over it for about 130 frames.
worked on it in class for 2 hours.
Brought home and worked on it the nights of the 2nd and 3rd. for about 6 hours.
Finished and turned it in.

Oct 28th RFC i explanation

The process i took in animating the RFC animation was to base it off a doodle in flash, expand an idea of the assignment and work it around the doodle.
I worked the animatic out and built the rough of the story
Giant ->people -> people in orb -> giant throws orb -> other giant helps them out of orb -> people walk off.

and got the basic structure for most of what was needed to accomplish the animation.

I then worked on fixing up parts of the animation, and coloring old sketches from the animatic to be used in the animation.

i spent a lot of time trying to make the movement of the giants arm not super terrible, but because of how i had built his arm, it was proving to be difficult. I experimented with the bone tool, but didn't figure it out and gave up.
I lost about 40 mins fo work to a crash when i was trying to save my animation.  But got almost all of it back by using a SWF decompiler, when testing a movie, it creates a temp SWF file, so i was able to get what i had done back because i had been testing it.

I lost a lot of work hours from being sick, and didn't get the project done by the deadline, but a few days after.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Oct 19th

(This got posted on the wrong blog)
Worked in class, made about 100 frames on RFC animation
going to be working every day till the due date to get it done

RFC questions

1 How did plan realte to final project sotryboard/animatic.
I've Followed teh animatic and storyboard pretty well so far, only cutting things out twice to cut down on time consuming aspects.

2. What were the biggest problems.
Trying to do complicated frame by frame animation. Being sick.

3. What were you pleased with.
Not to much, the animation looks sorta stiff. I was pleased with the frame by frame of the hand lifting up.

4.What would you do differently next project?
Plan a bit better, less guesswork on how to animate certain aspects.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Oct 20th

Worked for about an hour on animation, Lost work when it crashed when i saved. Was mostly touchup work, no big losses.
Re did some of it for about 45 mins

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Animatic

Finished animatic in class, animated for 3 hours.
finished with 1410 frames

going to work on non animation homework till next class, and start the animation for RFC next class.

Oct 11th


Worked on animatic for 3 hours, about 400 more frames of work added
3/4 done with animatic.
Watched Square enix cinematics (high quality 3d cinematics).


(Adding three posts because of lack of internet since last week.)

Columbus day weekend



Watched several cartoons, old and new. 
Watched a couple flash animations. 
worked for about 30 mins on Animatic


Oct 7th class


Finished up storyboard for RFC animation.
People walk to giant, he pulls out ball for them to get into.
He blows cloth off the top of it.
They get in, He throws it.
it crashes into another mountain, people get out, one falls, giant catches.
sets down, they leave.
Worked on animatic in class for 2 hours.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

past days

Over the past week ive worked on the flashcard animation, and the corpse animation.

Didnt update due to lack of internet at home.

sept 28th

Made a shape tween with imported images in class today
watched several hours of a batman cartoon over the weekend.
Worked on finding out what to do for inanimate object project.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Worked on flashcard animation, didn't get far, ran into trouble animating walking.
Did a few walking studies, still cant get it down in the flashcard animation.
Will try again in class.

1.5 hours of work

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Worked at home

Worked on story board homework for a good 40 mins.

Then worked on Note card animation, Decided i didn't like how it was going to come out, started over.
Going a lot more cartoony with this version, realistic would take to long in the end.
worked on first one for about an hour and a half, second for about 45 mins.

Not able to update at home, don't have internet.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Animation

Used tablet and flash to make animations.
- Blob bouncing around
- Frog Blob jumping around and eating a fly
- Same frog, no fly, longer period of jumping around at the end. Almost 30 seconds at the end.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Flash

Animated a spoon spinning in flash in class tuesday.
Looked at everyones zoetropes and flipbooks as well.
Thought about how to re-make the flipbook in flash with a tablet.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Zoetropes

Made 3 Zoetrope animations strips:
- Eye creature being eaten
- cone thing swimming
- blob waking up and falling asleep.