Week 12: Credits and Titles

I am excited to work on titles and credits because they can enhance the film if done correctly.  I am done with the slate, but I would like to have some cool animated credits with some roaches moving across the film.  I am really hoping to have some cool credits for the end of my film with sound and what not. 

Week 11: After Effects Emotion

Well, this week were supposed to work on our next project, which was to show animated emotion in After Effects.  I decided that with the upcoming winter weather, and your lecture on how to use the snow effects; that I would do something that involved snow and driving conditions.  The only thing that I know for sure is that I want to use the theme from the Shawshank Redemption.  Overall, I think this should be a fun project because we can further experiment with more effects.

Week Ten: After Effects

This week we continued working in after effects, but on our now found object project, and I found that After Effects has a lot of aspects that can help our projects.  The basic 3D effect that I used to show my Bugs Bunny turn around, worked well in showing a basic turning motion.  I used other thing such as text, and played with the opacity, so that it faded on the screen.  Overall, I think that After Effects has many things to offer our projects now and in the future.

Week Nine: After Effects

We started working in AE and I it was a little bit of review, but good because I needed to be refreshed on certain things.  We worked with the Halloween/ Cat thing, and it helped me remember the thimgs that I learned last year with Mr.Cone.  I'm glad to to be learning AE because if used successfully, it can add an extra thing to your animation through effects, and such.  I also learned the importantance of knowing where the action box and the title box are located in order to keep my animations inside of the screen when watched on tv.

Week Eight: Stop-Motion

Well, this week we were assigned to make a cut -out "puppet" for a stop-motion anim ation.  I was really low on an idea, and then I was watching the national geographic channel.  I then got the idea of a frog eating a fly, and I went through the process of creating a frog cut-out.  It was kind of fun making the cut-out, and then I went through and drew a couple of thumbnail storyboards.  I am looking forward to animate the frog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pUNbT6DpRs

Week Seven: Weight

Well, I had an issue today when I was taking out the garbage.  The bag ripped, and I all of the garbage poured out of the bag.  It inspired me in the animation that we are doing for the weight assignment.  I decided to make my character lift a heavy garbage bag and as he goes to put the bag in the garbage can, the garbage spills out and it is left with a mess.  I found the perspective references very helpful in knowing where to put hands and arms in order for them to be correct.  I am pretty happy with my key frames so far, and I am excited to see this project completed.  I am hoping to do some pretty cool things with this character.  I have uploaded a copy of my animation, but i would have loved to caught the real garbage spilling out on camera. 

Week Six: Weight

After watching this video, you can clearly see that there are many things that go into weightlifting. If you watch the different body parts such as the arms or the legs, they do very specific things. For example, you can really see the tension in the arms as he lifts the weight. Then the tension switches to the legs as he pushes the weight over his head, and you can see the the relief in his body as he drops the weights after he finishes.