Final Blog (6/1/14)

1. Why did you take this class?

I took this class because I was looking to get out of the same routine of going to school, sitting in boring classes all day, feeling like there was no purpose for me learning anything I was learning. To get some different trades under my belt.

2. In general, what did you like most about this class?

What I liked most was how free and creative and individual was able to let their mind be.

3. In general, what did you like least about this class?

I didn't enjoy the amount of guinea pig training my class was. I didn't like how we didn't have any group projects where one person could focus on only one thing.

4. What was your most favorite project and why?

My favorite project, huh? I didn't have a favorite project, my favorite assignments were the training animations we had to make for flash. I'm someone who likes many but small projects.

5. What was your least favorite project and why?

3D Project.... Too long and I hated using maya....

6. Discuss the overall effectiveness of the instructor (for example: preparation, availability, interest, content knowledge, expectations, etc.).

I personally couldn't handle how many different things we had to multitask, others could but to me it wasn't effective..

7. What are the most valuable things you learned in the class?

Preparation and not to procrastinate.

8. Do you feel that this class will help you achieve your future academic or career goals? How or why (or why not)?

It has already helped me achieve it. My goal for this class was to get something new under my belt and now I have that.

9. How could this class be improved?

Not so much multitasking.

10. Additional comments:

Casual Magic Response 5/18/14

I've heard a few rumors about the new "Alice In Wonderland 2" movie that's supposed to come out in the near future. I honestly thought that it was some kind of joke at first. I mean, why try to milk a billion dollar movie franchise to make less than a quarter of the money that the first one made. I agree with the author of this article, the first one was not as well as the book depicted the story to be, and I feel that Burton will butcher the second one also. The video clip on the article I found a bit disturbing and I don't think anyone with a weak stomach should watch it. What I was able to watch from it really showed me how easy it is to create the perfect scene just with a little bit of visual fine-tuning. I like this idea of visual fine-tuning because it leaves a lot of space for people to be creative and can make a movie more intriguing. 

Weekly Blog Post 9/13 (Article)

What I learned:

• Model miniatures are sometimes the better and cheaper alternative to making a quality movie.
• I didn't know that a lot of different places on the earth could be shot in California.
• I didn't know that in Spielbergs, "The Grind." The giant COTOPAXI ship in the desert was not real.

What I think:

• What I like is that these new techniques are being talked about more and more for new film makers to actually be able to try to make it in the industry.
• I like that in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Spielberg used the Mojave desert in California to double for the Gobi desert in Asia.

A question that I have:

• If CGI added to force perspective will make a scene look more realistic or if it adds too much realism to the point where where looks unrealistic?

Weekly Blog Post 9/13 (Comments)

Hi and welcome to the first weekly blog post about my experience in animation class this week. So, here we go...

What I learned:
This week I learned how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator. We focused mostly on the pen tool and how to manipulate anchors to your own desire.

What I want to learn:
In the future I'd like to learn how to correctly use the live paint bucket tool, and how to properly shade and highlight parts of a piece of work.

Something that frustrated me this week:
Well, something that I was frustrated with, and I'm sure everyone in class is, was not being able to get down to work right away. But, I get it, it's the beginning of the school year and we need to learn the basics.

Something that made me happy this week:
What made me happy this week was learning about animation throughout history. I've never gone as far as to even question how the production is at some stages so to actually understand it, and know what it's like was unbelievable.

A link of interest:
I found this video a few weeks back and thought to myself that it kind of fits with animation. I feel as if we might be using a lot of the techniques in this video.

Nature By Numbers - etereaestudios

Test post, and stuff. Also, Helvetica is awesome.