Week 2B

We started class by learning how to upload a video onto YouTube and then from there learned how to create movies in Adobe After Effects.

Now we've been assigned to create a sequential dreamscape. What that means is that we have to pick 5-7 words from the dream that we wrote about on our blog and put that together with texture images that are abstract but go along with what the words are trying to illustrate. From there we have to develop a system and narrative of our dreams through the duration and switching of the textures and words to give a random viewer the idea of the dream. So far my words and images are the following:

 

Bridge

 

Circus

Drowning

Falling

 

Rescued

 

Walking

 

Coma

These are not in the order that they are suppose to be (should be circus, walking, bridge, falling, drowning, rescued, coma).

Week 2A: Outside of Class Dream assignment

Ryan's dream;

In a circus or renaissance atmosphere, He was outside walking around, with me and there was a bridge with water underneath that I fell into. Then he tried to fish me out but then people from his high school came to help out and they made a human chain that reached down to the rushing water. The chain of people didn't save me but someone else was able to swim out and save me instead. He was able to resuscitate me but I was in a coma. That's all folks.

Week 2A

We went over the emotion videos that we were assigned to create for this class, went over the syllabi and had a lecture about motion principles. Duration and Pause were explained but they are pretty self explanatory when it comes to motion videos.

For an in class project we were asked to interview a fellow peer about their personality and who they were as a person. I personally interviewed Jessica and found out that she was very similar to myself. Then from the information that we gathered, we were given the letters of our names and had to create a stop motion video showing their personality. We worked together directing each other to create the shorts. It was pretty much a way to practice working in teams.

I unfortunately was unable to download my personal video from class. I will post it on my next blog entry.

Week 1 Outside of Class

For my emotion line animation I chose the emotion of being lost or confused. At first I had my line searching, and I was constantly moving the line in each slide, but I found that when I played it, it was moving so fast that you couldn't even comprehend what it was doing at some points. So I went back and made a few of the frames repeat so it would have the pause I was looking for. What I was going for was for the line to drop down then go from corner to corner looking and searching and then finally once it got to every corner for it to freak out and go in circles then finally hit the wall and stop. It's a quick little animation but it was incredibly fun to make.

Week 1B

 above is a flipping animation that we did in class and below is a separate one. Both revolved around CATS!

We went through the basics of Motion Principles today.
Frames per Second [fps], Adobe Flash, Key Frames, etc. Then we were assigned a emotion/line project where we have to pick one emotions for a single black line to animate.