Advanced Animation

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Final Adv. Animation

This was from a movie I have never seen (The Matrix?) and was talking about “there is no spoon”. I have no idea of the context, so just went with it.

This is about half done. I was so sick the second half of the quarter and my doctors think it was a mix of physical stress from the oral surgeries and 3 rounds of antibiotics. I had 1 week of feeling well this whole quarter. On top of that, one roommate had surgery 2 weeks before the end of the quarter that entailed more care than we expected.

I knew I was going into this with a high A, so I opted to let this one final slide and concentrate on the classes that actually mattered to me or needed the most attention. This is the second class I have ever received a B in and I was ok with that choice (though I admit I struggled a bit with it.)

I do believe I learned what was being taught, so it just was a matter of jumping through the grading hoops. I was just glad to be done!

Two figures talking

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Advanced Animation

My Advanced Animation class was a lesson in endurance. Don’t get me wrong. It was fun, if that is what you were wanting to pay several thousands of dollars for, but here again, this class had little to do with graphic design. It could have…but it didn’t. This ended up being about creating animations that “act”. We even took class time to play Guesstures and practice what acting was all about.

Yeah. We did that.

I did not have the energy within to try to extrapolate what I was supposed to be learning in Flash as a graphic designer, so I just did what it took and did not strain anything.

Practicing – I chose to do a guy falling asleep from boredom…

Practice animation

Project 1 – action and intention.

I took video of my nephews trying to grab at a tree as my reference. That was fun.

Project 1

Lipsync – we chose a clip provided by the teacher and did one person talking. We only needed a non-moving head since the lips are the important piece here.

Lip sync exercise

Midterm – lip sync and add body actions.

This clip was from Ghostbusters… the moment the Stay Puff guy was “imagined”, so I used him as my talking figure just to add some humor for my own delectation.

Ghost Busters animation

All of these could use more work on their drawings. Time was not my friend this quarter. In addition, these classes were on Friday and my initial and subsequent surgeries and dental visits fell on Thursdays. However, I was hitting the intended learning points and had a very high A at the half-way point.