Week 7 Blog Post

What is my daily practice like? Animating is way harder than I expected, but it is a lot of fun to see your final product. I don't get to practice animating as much as I want to. After editing exercises or the project films, I am so drained and it's hard to keep messing around with the programs. I have been looking at animations/cartoons differently since I have been taking this course. I look more at the details of the characters and the movement of all the stuff in the background. I do however use final cut pretty often. I film and edit skateboarding videos as a hobby and I use after effects to use slow motion so I use after effects pretty often. After this course, I want to keep making short animations for fun and potentially get a job with some of my works

What I have So Far

This is what I have so far for the Scar film, which is not very much at all. My animation is going to be of two kids playing on a swing set and on of them tires to jump, but gets his leg caught and instead gets dragged.

http://vimeo.com/37186362

Film 2 Storyboard

Blog Post 5 redo

The reason that we are doing these blogs are so that we can get familiar with social networking and get use to publishing our work onto the internet so people can view it. Once we graduate, we will need to have a way to show employers what we have done and what we are capable of doing and these blogs are a good way of doing so. The reason I am taking this class is because I have always thought animation was cool. I always watched cartoons and played video games when I was younger and I still do. The only other animation class that I have taken was back in high school and we used flash (which was horrible). I've always been interested in learning how to make different types of animation since I am so unfamiliar with any of those programs. Though learning these programs and creating different animations are a lot more difficult than I expected, the outcome is very gratifying and is definitely worth the time and effort.

Blog Post 5

The reason that I am doing these weekly blog posts are because they are assigned. If I were not receiving a grade for these posts, then I would have never made a blog in the first place. Though the blog posts are required, it only takes a few minutes out of my time and it is an easy assignment.

"Scar" Storyboard