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The first fortnight of senior was about as boring as expected. Lots of paperwork, but luckily no homework. Film Production is easily my favorite class, but Participation in Government is a good second. My opinions are listened to!


The bum part of the year is getting on the bus after BOCES... and having 4 more periods of school.


All is good and right in the world however for not only did I watch Mad Max: Fury Road... I got it on DVD and Blu-Ray!


I took a political spectrum quiz in PiG this week. I have learned, to the surprize of no one, that I am seated comfortably left on the political spectrum.


I want to learn how to manipulate colors on video, so I can make everyone have teal skin!


As a link of interest I found a blog for the greatest critic of all time! http://insectsunderfoot.blogspot.com/?m=0


That's everything, see ya.

Psychological Mistakes of Filmmakers

This list is a bit more useful.


The best results come from an untainted mind so follow these simple rules to keep creative juices flowing. If you're at your computer all day it could stump you, so move around, eat, think, watch Mad Max, whatever just don't type all day cause consistency curbs originality. Next is most important. Stay true to YOUR vision and don't follow fads! That will date your movie and suck out it's soul. If the producer demands some stupid fad in your movie at least rework to a degree that strengthens the experience. Make everything count. Too much filler = inglorious bastards. Screw that movie. Stressing! Everything fails. If your not confident enough to go full force you fail harder. Don't be an arrogant jerk. No one will benefit and when you fail no one will want you back.


Good stuff. I really like the discourages the use of fads. Fads are why the Amazing Spiderman movie will be forgotten and the Sam Raimi Spiderman movies won't.

How NOT to Solve Procrastination

If you couldn't tell by the date of this blog, I am a carrier procrastinater. The article is a set of tips to help solve it so I thought it'd be useful.


First tip is to analyze the project as a whole.


Second is to make a list of all the stuff you gotta do.


Third: Internet is distracting


Fourth: Do the hardest first.


Five: Plan before you jump in.


Six: Break the task down to it's most basic parts.


These all assume I'm already working and am just stumped. If I'm procrastinating it's that I don't know what to do, it's that I don't FEEL like doing it. None of these will put you back in the groove. This article has done NOTHING to improve my work ethic.

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The End of an Era

1)

   I took this class because I really like cartoons, have many ideas for my own cartoons, and after seeing some animation software I realized it was within reach.

2)

   This will sound really cheesy and cliche, but my favorite part of the class was the people in it. It's nice to be around people I can relate to rather than the insane testosterone junkies on the bus I ride here.

3)

   The thing that I abhorred the most was the 3D tutorials, especially the helmet. I also really, really, really hate the deadlines

4)

   My favorite project was the final project. I really like being able to interpret scripts to make my own unique thing.

5)

   I did not paticularly enjoy the helmet tutorial. The helmet was so time consuming and boring.

6)

   8/10, my questions always got answered and I've learned a great deal, however I feel that the demos were long and pointless.

7)

   The most valuable lesson I learned was time management. I hated the deadlines, but now I can crunch.

8)

   Absolutely, this work I can do. If I can't star a multi-billion dollar entertainment company I can still live my dream by doing low-budget stuff on the Internet

9)

   Less demos and tutorials, more projects!

10)

   I look forward to next year

Final Project Blog

Interpretation

My idea for the script was to have two aliens discovering a cake dropped by an astronaut. I picked interpretation because I really liked the idea and it would allow an opportunity to reuse my character from the beginning of the year.

Principles

I utilized secondary action while Lulz (character 1) was tinkering with the cake by having Lil (character 2) look at some frosting that got on her hand whilst expressing concern over Lulz's actions. I also used overlapping action by having the frosting getting skewed by a tongue. I used a lot of straight ahead animation on the mouths to keep the flow of their words consistent, but I used pose to pose on the characters to help keep proportions correct and alleviate the workload. I figured exaggeration would be good for the reactions described in the script, so I had the object be mundane, but do miraculous things only to be stopped by another mundane object. I also used appeal in developing the characters, Lil is spontaneous and nonchalant as well as energetic and outgoing, so I made her skin a loud green and made her clothing very bright and colorful to help express her youthful energy and minor ignorance. Meanwhile the more toned-down Lulz who is quicker to recognize potential and outright danger as well as an ego I gave a more subtle skin tone and fashion sense that's upscale for his self image, but not something so flamboyant as to make him look adventurous.

Highlights

I feel I greatly improved on body language. Before I just did still images with moving mouths, but 've put more expression emotion in my characters that I am proud of, the best examples are the "I didn't know THAT would happen" and " let me try this" scenes. 

Improvement

I feel that the weakest part of my animation is the audio editing. There is a sudden cut at the "and how about this" line that makes me sad. There are also a few scenes, the "are you sure about that" scene most prevalent, where not much movement happens that leaves a stagnant feeling that I'm not fond of.

Overview

I think this my best work in 2D this year. While it's not perfect, I still like it and think its pretty good. My strategy worked very well considering this is my best 2D narrative and I finished ahead of schedule. Next time I'll do more work at home to prevent stagnant scenes and pay much closer attention to the audio.

Deez Comments Bruh

I learned to always check your bag for important things this week, because the low point is that I forgot my flash drives at school over the weekend so I couldn't do didly squat with my final. On the upside I used that freed up time to grind in Fallout and become ridiculously powerful. Ok, I stand corrected, THIS is the high point of my week!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hMoxCIe44