Character story

I did not complete this project.

professional article rewiew

This article talks about the best animated movies of 2015 and what was good and what was bad about them. These films were, Inside Out, the Good Dinosaur, Shawn the Sheep, the Peanuts movie, and Anomalisa. The author talks about the awards that the movies were given and he talks about wether he agrees with them. The author is stating specific awards and nominations for each movie. The article really is only talking about the awards and not about how they were made or how he thought the movies were. The author determined that some of the movies, to him, didn't get what they deserved and/or, got to much.
           I think the article should have focused more on not just the award the movies were given and focused more on how they were made and if that went into them getting the awards.

The author does stay on topic for the article. The only thing I would say, is that instead of just adding links to look at the awards, quote them so people don't have to leave your article. I do agree with the authors opinions on the awards and the way he critics them, makes me agree with him. As an animator, I would have liked t see more on how the movies were made.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/12/10/2016-golden-globes-how-animated-feature-nominees-sharpen-the-big-picture/

Behind the scenes

For this I chose to look at how they made the dragons in Game of Thrones. It was cool to see how the filmed in real life and then making it have a dragon in it. They use so many green screens, and they have green balls on the end of a stick for the actors to work with. when they got into how they made the dragons, thats what surprised me. They put the dragons through wild tunnel tests so they know how they fly and look. The lighting on them was a huge part of it to, they had to get the lighting from the real sun, onto the dragons. This was really cool to see and I hope I can do something like this in the future.

wrestler

This video was all over the place. It had a bunch of the same shot and way to many close-up's. Some of the shots and what they showed us didn't have to with the story and were very confusing. The interviews were weird and didn't look right.

Bouncing Ball

In this project we made a ball bounce across the screen. Now that doesn't sound very fun, but it was awesome. this project was here so that we could learn how to use Photoshop and Adobe After Effect. some of the problems I had were that I was a little confused about the program and how to navigate it, but after a little while, I got it. I had a lot of fun making this and hope that I can do this kind of stuff in this class more.    

Final blog

FaZe Fit Food was a really fun product to make. Our group worked some what good together. It was hard to work together when people wanted to do what they wanted and nothing else. I think we had to many extraverts in the group o that made it a little hard to work together. the contract we made at the start of the project, I think was about half way fulfilled, people were off task and no one did anything about it. other than the fact that our group wasn't super perfect, I think the project turned out well and I am proud of it and all the hard work we put into it.

Video

 This was a very fun project to do, we got to come up with our own idea. We took a lot of time to film and we made sure that we had all the right shot before we started to edit. That helped out a lot. We had some trouble with the voice over and trying to make it work for everyone. I decided to make my own voiceover in class but it was hard to make everyone quiet so that I could do my voiceover and after I was finished with the voiceover, I listened to my voice and I sounded really bad. I wish I had changed the voiceover before I uploaded the video to YouTube. I hope that I can do more video editing in the future and maybe do more voiceovers. I learned how to do a voiceover by looking it up on YouTube and that helped me out.

Animation

The animation using Google Sketch-up was not my thing. I admit that I wasn't the best at the animation stuff so thats why the gout didn't use mine, but we used some of the same elements from mine in the final animation, like the straw and the way I did the liquid in the cup. When I started the animation, I knew that I wanted to make an everyday looking cup with a drink and thats what I did. When I was done with it, I thought it was pretty good. I like making the animations and playing around in sketch-up, but I feel like it wasn't my strong suit.

Logo

The Logo was made mostly by me and the other members of the group. When we first started coming up with the idea for the logo, I wanted to incorporate letters in the name and that is what I did. The gout kind of just gave me the job of doing the logo, but that was ok. I had like 3 or 4 designs and then I pick this initial design and then played with it some more. When I was done with the design of the logo, i felt like I had accomplished something huge like"hey, I just designed THAT logo!". I learned a lot about graphic design and how to start a design and what to do along the way with it. I really liked using the programs when making that logo, they helped out a lot with things like color and making everything straight. the logo was one of my favorite parts of this whole project and I hope to do this again in the future.

Today we built lego things as a group with challenges. the legos were our goal for the group and the challenges made the group work harder and learn from each other. I think this task was good because we got to work with a group of people and work together to achieve a goal. with four people in the group, you have more, thoughts, ideas, etc. and the goal can be achieved faster. I like working with groups because it doesn't put a burden on me to do all the work but I still know that I have to do some work.

This was our first project in animation and i loved it! I had a lot of fun getting to make my own animation using my own idea. it was kind of hard making everything perfect and coming up with an idea for my project.