Monday, October 31, 2011

5 Renderings

I made the snow cone, GIR, and Pucca head with Blender, but the others were made with Cinema. (I found the Cinema demo version after I made the ones with Blender.)

I finished the bobsled tutorial thing - or as far as I can get without the plug-ins, anyways - but I'm not sure which file type I should export it as.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Homework for October 31st



GREAT WORK ON YOUR FLASH PROJECTS!


Animation One 
Post your five renderings created from primitives in C4D and complete the following tutorial
bobsled tutorial

















Advanced Animation


Complete rigging your character


















check out
ALEX McLEOD


swordsman's revenge.mov

Midterm Animation



Sorry it fell a bit short.

Faceless

Animation Midterm

god wants to play a game

Animation Midterm



It didn't turn out as long as I had planned for it to be. Some things need some fixing up (Cat spinning around especially), and I forgot to put credits for some things I used at the end of video like I had planned (I'll have to add those in the comments later), but everything else should be there.

animation

Music gets loud!!!


Monday, October 3, 2011



Summary:
I Movie- is great for trimming and adding some transitions and sounds. There are a collection of video effects that can be added as well.
Use Garage Band to record, trim, and manipulate sound and sound effects for your animation.
After Effects - can be used to create endless high end effects on video as well as fantastic motion graphics
Adobe Flash - a fantastic animation tool for 2-d animation
Create and manipulate artwork for your animation in both Photoshop and Illustrator


I really feel that the animator must have an arsenal of tools and weapons at their disposal to create rich and engaging final products.

Also covered:
Obtain a variety of public domain footage from www.ARCHIVE.org

REMINDER!!!!! Midterm projects are due OCTOBER 24th

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Animatic: The Promise


Made up of bases and stick figures. Haha. Decided to make the parts in the beginning, where the girl is talking, Japanese anime style, and then do something my friends and I have dubbed "advanced stick-figures" for the rest of the animation. I'm still learning human anatomy, so I know I would feel the need to spend far more time than available on drawing out the characters if I did it Japanese anime style the whole way through.

Frame Notes:
Scene 1: Title (All notes on frame.)
Scene 2: Thought clouds start to appear on third sentence.
Scene 3: Dream-like music clip plays as view moves from person to biggest cloud and zooms in.
Scene 4: Zoom in on Cat (girl at the window).
Scene 5: (All notes on frame.)
Scene 6: Need to move frame view over so the character is in the middle of the frame. Tree neighs like a horse when she stops moving it.
Scene 7: Cat twitches an ear before speaking. Same background as scene 5.
Scene 8: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 9: Zoom in on Cat's face as she turns. Sparkly eyes. Same background as scene 5.
Scene 10: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 11: Same background as scene 5.
Scene 12: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 13: Both girls start giggling. Background behind Cat's half of the frame includes parts of the curtains and the wall with a picture hanging. Behind Tree's half of the the frame includes a bookshelf with many horse toys.
Scene 14: End (All notes on frame.)
Scene 15: Credits. Words scroll up.