The coloring process!

October 25, Thursday 2:56pm

Alright so I'm on frame 285 of coloring. I finally got the bucket tool to work and it seems to not be freezing up anymore. Hopefully when I finish it at home this weekend it won't hate my computer. I hate that it's difficult to do any kind of value/ blending on flash. I'm going to keep looking online because I really hate the color quality. I really like having values in my work so if I figure out a way I'm going to go back through the whole thing and pick a light source and then blend everything into something pretty. I will update tomorrow. 

Shelby

Stupid Computers

October 23, Tuesday 2:40pm

I tried to start making my project in color and the computer wouldn't let me. And then it wouldn't let me use my tablet. And THEN it wouldn't let me use the keyboard. Since there's a presentation about to happen, I'm going to be done until I get home.
I'm not sure if I want to pick a different title, although I don't mind that the title is obvious. And I'm going to put an end screen as well. And after I do all that stuff, I'm going to add the sounds and edit everything and all that good stuff. I'm thinking about recording a couple of the sounds on my own only because I don't like the ones on the internet.

Shelby

To use color or to not use color?

October 23, Tuesday 2:15pm

Alright so I finished my animation midterm really early surprisingly and I have all Thursday and all weekend so I'm thinking about putting color in my animation but I'm not sure yet. I need something to do for the next few days so.... I think I probably will. This is just me rambling..

Shelby

Update!

October 22, Monday 8:33pm

I actually got to work on my animation!! Woohoo! I just finished her pulling the balloon out of her pocket, and now I'm going to work on bringing the balloon to her face so I can start having her blow air into it. So I'm almost done I feel like, because her gently falling down is going to be tweened so I don't think it will take very long. Although I am going to put in a swinging motion with her whole body so I think I'm going to turn that into a graphic so that as I tween her down the page, her body will be swinging. So I feel like this will be done before the weekend. Although I think I'm going to go back into the beginning and rework it.

Shelby

Yeah....

Sunday 12:01pm

I am probably not going to get to my animation until tomorrow because this drawing midterm is going to kill me... More updates later...


Shelby

Mid-Term Project

October 18, Thursday 2:48pm

I am at about 14 seconds of animation, and I'm at the part where she starts to pull the balloon out of her shirt as she's falling. So I need to animate her blowing up the balloon, and then her falling with the balloon. I think that will probably take many more hours, as making it look like the balloon is actually being blown up is going to be difficult. The final falling part is probably going to be rather time consuming even with tweening. So I'm planning on at least having the balloon blowing up part animated by Tuesday, if I can get to it between the two papers, drawing midterm, and endless collages. But I'm sure I will be able to work on it either tonight or sometime tomorrow during the day. I'm planning on at least getting those papers out of the way tonight so that should leave lots of time for this project.

Also, I haven't really looked into the animation presentation. I've thought about it, I just haven't gone on the internet so I might do that today after I do the papers. I've watched videos in the past about Glen Keane, so I'll probably watch some more tonight.

Shelby

Animatic

October 16, Tuesday 12:30-2:45pm

Alright so I'm about eleven seconds into the animatic. Or maybe it was near sixteen I can't remember. But either way I'm almost done but I think I want to add a title and maybe an end with text. I'm not sure yet. But it's looking alright. I'm mad that when my super hero animation was presented today that Robin didn't shape tween into Batman correctly. That annoys me to no end. But otherwise it was good. But my animatic should be done with another thirty minutes or so of work and then I can hunt for sounds. Or make some. I'm thinking about writing the music for it since I have a computer program that will play it for me and I know the basics of music theory after learning to play eight instruments. So that is my update for today! I'll remind myself to do another one if I work on this later. Or tomorrow. Who knows!

Shelby

Mid-term

October 16, Tuesday 12:33pm

I forgot to post after I did the story board for the mid-term last night. Mostly because I took my medication which makes me fall asleep twenty minutes after I take it. Anyways I did a story board of a little girl and a balloon but I did it really simply so I'm going to redraw it in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvR6wuMW6gs&feature=related

Here is my example of an animatic. I feel like such a scatter brain this week. Anyways my story is pretty much a little girl falling off a cliff and blows up like a balloon and floats down like a feather almost. So I'm going to get to work on that.

Shelby

Dan Sousa

October 9, Tuesday 12:45pm

So Dan Sousa! I am so happy to finally go to a talk about animation instead of something like sculpture or painting! It's not that I don't like those things, it's just that they don't apply to me as much.

Anyways! I'm not sure how I feel about all his work as a whole. I didn't like his film from college, because the camera movements and all the lines were really shaky, and they gave me quite the headache. The line work was nice but it was incredibly shaky. I didn't really like Fable either, but it was more that it was hard to really tell what the story was about for me. The only reason I understood it was because he explained it first. I liked the style of animation but it was very difficult to follow.

I really liked the Minotaur. I really liked what could be done with cutouts and I really enjoyed the story. It was very easy to understand what was going on and the flow was very smooth. My favorite of his animations was Feral. The story was very vivid and the emotions were very clear. I liked this style much better with less line work because it didn't make my head spin looking at it. I feel like the story was animated very well, and I liked getting away from the super painterly style.

Shelby

Sound Animation

October 7, Sunday 12:00-1:21pm

Alright so my animation is really simple, but I think the sound really helps it and I couldn't think of anything other than a box. So now I have to come up with my idea for the cut out animation, and then do lots of makeup work for 2D... I have no idea what I want to do for the cutout. So, I'm going to ponder it while watching some animation. I might actually look up some cutout animation because I have no ideas at all. Anyways, I'll report back when I figure something out.

Shelby Hamel

Glass Animation

October 6, Saturday 9:40-10:49pm

Alright. I worked on this for over two hours today, I just broke it up. It is finally finished. I'm going to put a hiccup sound in there but I'll probably do that tomorrow. There are a few places that aren't that smooth but I have four layers, and I worked really hard on it. So I'm pretty happy with it. Now I have to figure out what I want to do for the sound animations, and I would like to get that done with the storyboard tonight so that I can dedicate the rest of the weekend to makeup work for other classes. I should have time tomorrow, because that is the lesser extent of my makeup work. I'm reserving Monday for my Drawing I makeup work, because that has the most and I don't have comic legue that day. Anyways! I will report back with what I have done, although I feel like I need sleep :( Maybe I'll just get up early in the morning and do this. Either way I'll be sure to blog about it!

Shelby

Glass Animation

October 4, Thursday 12:26pm

Alright, so before class I took some reference video in my bathtub for the splashing, but I won't start that until the rest of the animation is complete, as that is on a separate layer. So, I will be doing that once I get everything else finished, which I'm guessing will take up most of my weekend. Along with various makeup work from other classes.

Speaking of makeup work! My makeup work will be in the drop box right after I finish this blog post!

Shelby

Sounds

October 3, Wednesday 7:30-8:00pm


I finally caught up with all my sounds!! So I will pass in all my makeup work tomorrow!!! Hooray! The only one I don't like it the fly, but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted....so I settled with something I wasn't as happy with. I really like the other two though! Also I stayed home again today... So I will probably show up sick tomorrow... I'm sorry you'll have to avoid me like the black plague! This awful cough won't go away!!

Shelby

More about the glass

October 2, 2:58pm Tuesday

I think I might change the glass to swaying a little bit, like a tipsy glass, instead of having it jump so much... I don't know very much about drunk people who get drunk when they're with friends haha. Anyways I think that's what I'm going to go with. My story board is different but this idea is better I tell you!

Shelby

Object Animation

October 2, Tuesday 2:43pm

Alright, so this is mostly so I will remember what my plans are for later. I want to take some reference video for the splashing inside and outside the glass. Probably in the bathtub, so I won't get water everywhere. And then I will put the splashing on the different layers I created. And I'm going to continue working on my animation. So far it's about thirteen seconds, which isn't really that bad. And I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with my computer, so I really am going to turn in my makeup work next class or tomorrow depending on how much time I have. I really hope the tipsy wine glass idea comes across...

Also, unrelated, I made a tumblr for animation. I have never had a tumblr... so yeah.

animationisart.tumblr.com

Merry Christmas! I mostly repost awesome pencil tests. Like the one from Beauty and the Beast.

Shelby

Storyboard

October 1, 7:30-8:11pm Monday

Okay so I spent all day home sick, but I did manage to finish my storyboard. I'm going to do my text animation, but my computer and audacity don't like each other so I'm going to put sound to them before class starts. And then I'm going to put sounds on the ones I still owe tomorrow after class. Mind you, that is if I go to class tomorrow, I don't feel much better than I did this morning. I'll post another blog post about my text animation.

Shelby