ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

 Hmmm. Additional two posts about media related topics. See now I am running out of ideas. Trying not to post about the same each week. I guess I could write about one of the more famous Miyazaki films. Featuring the younger sibling of the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus; PONYO!! Oh come on she's so cute! How can you look into that pretty little face of hers with all that pretty red hair and not love her? Look for yourself if you don't believe me.
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and this is her mother and father. Her father is kinda weird but he means well.
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ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

Has anyone seen the movie, The Borrowers? You know the one with the small people that "borrower" items from the human "beans"? Well my favorite animator, Miyazaki is remaking the movie himself. Here are a few pics of the movie.
http://hopeliesat24framespersecond.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/29.jpg
http://image.ohozaa.com/i/81d/the.borrower.arrietty.d2_s.jpg
I have said it once and I will say it again; MIYAZAKI ROCKS!!

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

   So for this week we started to do the heavy duty work of Flash. We are now learning how to create the three different types of symbols; graphic,movie, and button. Symbols are anything you create that can be used over again in different projects. Also we learned the different types of tweening. Tweening is the term used in animation when you want a object to do something (move, change shape etc.) from point A to point be. An example would be like a bouncing ball. You could draw where the ball starts, when it hits the floor or its lowest point and then where it ends. Then right click on the correct layer and click, "create motion tween." The computer will fill in the gaps "between" the points.

Moro wolf god from Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki. I think this is 2d animation. I am also a fan of Miyazaki-san and his movies; yet another reason for my attending this class. Other of his films include;
Spirited Away
Ponyo
Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Castle in the Sky
Kiki's Delivery Service

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

http://jetsetnick.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/kingdom-hearts-birth-by-sleep-4.jpg
I LOVE THIS ANIMATION!! 3-D ALL THE WAY! This game along with others like final fantasy are the reason why I wanted to take animation classes. I am always so in awe when I see/play these games and how such a vivid and realistic image was once a simple flat drawing on a piece of paper.

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

We have finally finished with all the demos/projects for adobe illustrator! *does a little happy dance* Now we get to start, or at least be introduced to flash. I took a peek at it earlier. This thought came to my mind; "Wow. This thing is intense..." Ms. Licata said we would have tutorials for this so we know how to use it. And we won't start 3-d animation until Christmas.. *sad face with little whimpers* Aww that's what I'm waiting for. Hopefully I'll be able to conquer Flash©. Oh and on another note. I got the stupid Adobe Illustrator© program to work and got my 2-d character to actually look the way I wanted her too. I also had the chance to see what other people had drawn and am very impressed. Everyone else has much much better skills at drawing than I...oh well. "C'est la vie." In this class, do you need to be good at drawing or just need to know how to use these programs? Hmmm..

http://www.1upgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lulu-final-fantasy-x.jpg
Lulu is my favorite of all final fantasy characters. Oooh and Paine!
http://www.mycosplayclub.com/images/201103/goods_img/10596_G_1299481604108.jpg

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

Not only is this a wink at animation... the banter in the beginning  is hilarious too!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A7X4FvNUw

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

Today and the past few days we have been working on our first 2-d characters. You have to scan them into the computer and then save it to a flash drive, upload it to our computer. Then bring it up in Adobe© Illustrator. It's really hard. I drew a person. Everyone else is better than mine and I'm thinking about giving up on my original character idea and just gonna draw something really basic; a ripped up maroon colored heart with only threads holding it together. And some eyes maybe a mouth and limbs and there you go. That should satisfy Ms. Licata enough so I don't have to show her and the rest of my class the horrible original I have...Anyway we learned about copyright and how people can get sued or a video post on YouTube©  can be instantly taken down because it references even the tinniest bit to a real movie, book, tv show etc. Stupid gov't and their censors.

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzzGPfVx32MOh come on. HE IS SO CUTE!!! Scrat awesomeness! And it's 3-d animation.

ANIMATION AND ALL IT'S GLORY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3WWFizy2JE&feature=related
I know we don't use this anymore, but I think its cool. I mean, I never knew you could do this with a computer. Granted this is not a mac but... better than nothing.

ANIMATION AND ALL ITS GLORY!

I would like to say that in animation class we worked on a really cool project. Unfortunetlly I cannot. All it was was more review on safety rules, how to sit at a computer properlly. Can you believe that?! There is actually a proper way, picture and all, to sit at a computer. You know sit up straight, don't stare at the computer for too long. Feet must be firmly on the floor. Yeah I cant reach, and my chair is all the way down. I hope to learn 2 and 3-d animation. But its not taught till towards the end I think and I am impatient. They say patience is a virtue... It's really frustrating right now!! GRR! Can we make pretty pictures move now? What has made me happy this week? Going to BOCES

Day 4, September 8th 2011

My second day of school. Had first Health class of this year. It's gonna suck! I like Math so far because; well its review. So it is easy. Although I doubt Trig will be that hard. As long as you have a calculator and remember the acronym for it. I really am looking forward to BOCES classes. Killed a lot of trees with all that paper work. Oh well. A 50 page packet on norm school stuff. And you have to read it all. Hmmm? How many people do you think, including teachers, read those things cover to cover?