2d animation...staging

In our 2d animation class we were asked to do 6 different drawings throughout our 9 days of classes. We were asked to specifically set up a pose that shows what the subject was doing at the time. I will caption below each picture to tell you which project is titled what. We were only given a couple of minutes to draw each one, so these drawings are sketches and just trying to get basic lines of action and ideas down quickly. The teachers said that they do this at disney all the time to set up scenes and to make sure that a particular action is going to work for that scene. The objective is to have someone from the audience be able to understand what's going on in a scene without much thought. So our job as animators is to guide a person along without them having to think much, so stuff just makes sense. They say that "you can tell when there is good animation, when you can't tell its animation at all." So if you're watching an animated movie and you forget that you're watching drawings, computer graphics, etc, then the animator is doing his/her job = ) But, the downside to that is if they make a mistake, someone will point it out very quickly! My teachers tell me to "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE AUDIENCE, people are smarter than they seem." Anyways, on with the pictures.


On this one, we were told to show "Interaction with an Animal" So since I hate cats!! I decided to show a person kicking its ass! Notice the extra emphasis on the big foot, lol. Will it land on its feet?...i hope not!

This project was to show "you're waiting in an elevator, but how are you waiting?" I decided to draw a crowded elevator with 2 fat people squishing me. I'm sure all of us have been there at some point in time where people are too close for your comfort....I have a zone people!! acknowledge it!


This is was "giving a gift" Now it's the spy vs. spy guy, but the only thing i'm kind of bummed about with this one is that I didn't draw the other guy to show him in a birthday hat, etc. waiting to accept the gift, so in my opinion, this one takes a little too long to think about. Well he's got a bomb behind his back...who's he going to give it to? is it a gift? you decide.



This one is "avoiding a puddle" Now this one I made very clear, so there's no confusion as to what's going on. The other thing with this one that the teacher's liked is that I had a secondary action...the umbrella. Animators like to show and have a secondary action. I was trying to keep the scene simple, yet interesting, I think I did that with this one. (I thought it would be funny and ironic if there were a car to come by and splash him since he's being so careful to avoid the puddle. maybe i'll draw something like that later on)

This is titled "helping an old person" I decided to show a guy giving a purse back to an old lady from the burglar who took it from her. it's an ok drawing, i'm sure I could have made it more interesting.

This is one I like also; "putting on a trenchcoat" I was trying to be humorous in this one, but i'm not sure if the trenchcoat I drew is necessarily a trenchcoat, this one could have been more interesting, or i guess, more understandable. Hopefully people get that he put his leg through the arm part of the coat because he's dumb. I tried to add extra emphasis w/ the question marks, but I think this might take someone too long to think about.


On a side note, I was at downtown Disney last night at the Virgin megastore and I came across this book: To Infinity and Beyond; The story of Pixar Animation Studios. I haven't put it on my wishlist, but this is definately a book that I would love to get.




So I hope this update was good enough for the time being, I have to pull some of my other projects off the school server so that I can get those uploaded on here. I thought I already had, but I looked around on my hard drives and they're not there, so expect those to show up here in a couple of days.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Happy Thanksgiving. As you all know, I will be celebrating Thanksgiving by myself this year, but I hope that everyone has a great one.

Just for fun and for you to know a little history on my family, my great ancestors actually sailed across on the Mayflower and signed the Mayflower compact and celebrated the first Thanksgiving. Here is a list of the names that signed the mayflower compact:

The Mayflower Compact

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc. having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Codd the 11. of November, in the year of the raigne of our sovereigne lord, King James, of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fiftie-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.

John Carver	Edward Tilley	Degory Priest
William Bradford	John Tilley	Thomas Williams
Edward Winslow	Francis Cooke	Gilbert Winslow
William Brewster	Thomas Rogers	Edmund Margeson
Issac Allerton	Thomas Tinker	Peter Browne
Myles Standish	John Rigdale	Richard Britteridge
John Alden	Edward Fuller	George Soule
Samuel Fuller	John Turner	Richard Clarke
Christopher Martin	Francis Eaton	Richard Gardiner
William Mullins	James Chilton	John Allerton
William White	John Crackston	Thomas English
Richard Warren	John Billington	Edward Dotey
John Howland	Moses Fletcher	Edward Leister
Stephen Hopkins	John Goodman

::My ancestors names are Samuel and Edward Fuller. I have always liked learning about my family and where I came from. I feel that it's important to know who your family is and what kind of challenges they faced during their time and where they traveled to. If you want to know more about your family and do some background research, The LDS Church offers free services to those who want to do some genealogy work on their family. Here is a site that will help:

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm

Lots of people from all over the world will travel to Utah (Mormon or not) and will do their genealogy work at the building downtown. There is a vast database of information that they have and it's cool to see other people who care about their family and want to know more history about them. Here is the website for the genealogy library and just a little paragraph about it:

http://www.utah.com/mormon/family_history.htm

"The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest genealogical library in the world with copies of millions of original records including the names of more than two billion deceased people. People come from literally all over the world to search the library's records and find information about their heritage. The library has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Salt Lake City."


So hopefully everyone has a good Turkey Day! Make sure you save a plate for me when I come back to town, lol.

Don't spill the beans!!

So last night me and my roommate were talking about cleaning up the fridge and moving stuff around, and he had mentioned that he still had this can of beans in there. Now this can of beans was bought from Sam's club when he first moved in, so it's been in the fridge for 6 months and he's only eating it a couple of times (he doesn't like to throw a lot of stuff out). So I told him we need to clean some crap out of it because he's never going to get around to eating it anyways. He didn't want to throw it out either that night because he states "he's lazy" but I told him we should and I would walk with him to the dumpster. So I go to my room to throw a shirt on and all of the sudden I hear this scream of horror and sudden disgusted laughter. I peak my head around the corner and was asking him what was wrong. He said to take a look at the can of beans......and this is what i saw:

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to eat that crap!!!

Here's the can of beans that was in the fridge for so long

Here's my crazy roommate....some of you know the stories....and yes, he plucks his eyebrows!

So anyways, I was obviously disgusted by the beans and we went and threw them out. I have a physics final to study for tonight and I hope that I do well on it tomorrow. I guess I better start complaining!! LOL

Hope all is well with everyone, don't be afraid to post comments either = ).

***side note*** still teaching myself how to encode the quicktime player into this blog so that way I can get my animation posted and you can loop it to watch it continuously....that's the best way to watch it. I will also have some more drawings from my animation class up tomorrow and some nice things to say about the class and the teachers.

peeling away the years

I got bored earlier and decided to put this peel off mask on. It was too funny though because I have never been able to peel off the mask and have everything still stay in tact. Luckily when I peeled it off, it stayed all together as 1 piece so I had to post it because its awesome.....look at all of those dead skin cells, lol.

physics update....1 more test to go

So I got into class yesterday and it was nice because it was a very short day (kind of pointless to go to class) but anyways, I got my grades for the last test. Before I had gotten the test back however, the teacher said "would the following people stand up"...he had called a couple of people, then he got to me and I stood up. He told everyone that the people who were standing up had scored a 90% or higher. I was very very happy! So if you're wanting to know what the score was on my test, it was a 100% = ) I feel relieved, but now there's 1 more test to go and we'll see if I can still pull possibly a B or a high C. I certainly don't want a D, that's for sure. So I will be finishing up my flipbook today (which is almost done) and then studying for the final and doing a couple of chores that I have to do.

I was up til 5:45 this morning working on my flipbook. I also talked to a good friend for awhile and it was nice to catch up. Thanks!

I tried to load the animations last night again, and the blogger uploads them, but then it never processes them....it just sits there and says processing for 1/2 an hour (annoying) I'm going to see if I can find a way to embed quicktime on here so that I don't have a problem anymore, I was doing some tests last night, but it's been weird w/ youtube and the blogspot video displayer. So you'll see the videos when I finally find a way to post them right!

That's all of the new news for today. KEEP MOVING FORWARD