Sunday, March 17, 2013

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5400000/Animated-Yotsuba-yotsuba-and-5464184-125-300.gifBecause its St.Patrick's day and look at her hair, it looks like a four-leaf clover. that is all.

Geri's Game

I think I already made a post of this in the animation class but still. This is the Pixar short, Geri's Game. A very cute short and my personal favorite.  And it makes you think at the end so that's good.
 

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the math that goes into this guy...and his nose.

Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love

Let me start off by saying; "No!" I knew math would back to bite me in the butt one of these days. Darn. Okay moving on.  (1)So DeRose of Pixar, (so we know this guy is good) is explaining how they use math in the Pixar movies.  (2)Like how in Brave they had to come up with a whole new way to make Merida's hair, they had to recreate a whole new "physics engine" to create her bouncy fire-red hair. (3) They first applied math to make it better in Geri's Game.  First, I love Geri's Game; that is the one I remember most out of the Pixar shorts I have seen. Secondly, I did not know that much math went into such a simple short.  And for my question; is it ironic I am doing the Math-O-Vision Competition and this article shows up?

How to Make Your Video Go Viral?

We know YouTube is hub for literally billions if not more videos of/for people ranging from very serious to very idiotic and pointless. Yet some videos could have 10,000 views and the same number of followers.  But that all depends on a persons preference and what they like to watch.(1) Well the first step is to have good equipment, or at least a decent kind. (2)A lavalier, although not needed, wouldn't kill you to have and makes the sound quality especially when a person is talking is a great thing to have.  (3)Being comfortable is another big thing when making a video, obviously. (1)Which, in my opinion, is hard to do. Believe me. When I started doing filming for my documentary and I had to talk to the camera in front of the green screen, I was nervous as heck.  I stuttered and stumbled, and I was just plain embarrassed that people in the room would hear me and laugh at something I might have said that they found funny or something like that.  But I was like, "Okay you have to do this otherwise your movie is gonna suck and Miss Licata won't give you a good grade! So suck it up and just do it!" So I took a deep breath and just started talking and after a while, it went pretty easy. I still get nervous in front of the camera but not as much. ....Rant aside....(2) I think this article explains what I am getting at a lot better than I am so go read it. As for my question...iMovie? Really? Ick.