August 30th, Thursday 8:00-8:45pm
I bought The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams over a year ago, before I knew about this class or that I would be attending this college. I felt very lucky that I didn't have to go out and buy a book let me tell you! I bought this book because I did animated stop motion shorts for my high school senior project, my first serious attempt at animation. I didn't know a single person who knew something about animation, so I bought this book. Rereading this reminded me of so many things. I feel like the beginning is a little discouraging to many artists, but I really do love Richard Williams, and his advice. My favorite of his is The Thief and the Cobbler which is not what he is known for, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I feel in love with the movie when I was eleven or twelve.
I actually, after reading him go through some history of animation itself, went on youtube and watched The Skeleton Dance, which I have not watched in a very long time if at all. It reminded me of the extreme work it takes to animate even a five minute animation sequence. I read through the comments and laughed at how many people, who in my opinion couldn't have been animators, reamed the animation. I couldn't help but wonder if they thought they could do better.
The book and the animations reminded me of the difficulties of animating and the importance of drawing that I have long gawked at. I have taken summer drawing classes at other colleges, and it reminds me why I need more practice. I dread Drawing I, but it reminds me why I'm taking it. To become an amazing animator.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
First Blog Post
August 30th, Thursday 12:30-3:30pm
Today is my first day of animation class and we created Zoetropes. I have never even thought about doing this before. I tried with flip books, unsuccessfully but I feel like this is a simpler way to start learning. I feel like I learned how to move a simple image easily, and I got really excited. I've only ever done stop motion so far successfully. So, I made 3 Zoetropes so far today. One is of a bouncing ball, on is a fly, roaming around, and the last one is a square guy moving his feet up and down. I still have to ink the last one, which isn't so bad. I'm really excited to get whatever homework we have!
I also feel like I did really well, which surprised me. I've tried animation many times over the years and was always inherently bad at it. But I did really well with the simple images. I do feel the Zoetrope with the fly was a little hard to see, but it did get my general idea of the movement across so I'm not unhappy with it.
Shelby Hamel
Today is my first day of animation class and we created Zoetropes. I have never even thought about doing this before. I tried with flip books, unsuccessfully but I feel like this is a simpler way to start learning. I feel like I learned how to move a simple image easily, and I got really excited. I've only ever done stop motion so far successfully. So, I made 3 Zoetropes so far today. One is of a bouncing ball, on is a fly, roaming around, and the last one is a square guy moving his feet up and down. I still have to ink the last one, which isn't so bad. I'm really excited to get whatever homework we have!
I also feel like I did really well, which surprised me. I've tried animation many times over the years and was always inherently bad at it. But I did really well with the simple images. I do feel the Zoetrope with the fly was a little hard to see, but it did get my general idea of the movement across so I'm not unhappy with it.
Shelby Hamel
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