response to animating creatures article

What I learned

1. Familiarizing yourself with animating creatures is a good thing to do, especially since many animated movies have creatures and animals in them.
2. One should have experience using a variety of diverse characters in their projects.
3. Interaction between characters is difficult to perform in cg animation, but it is great to include and makes a production more appealing.

My Opinions

1. I found this article very helpful and I will try to use these tips in the future.
2. I thought the animation of the ogre was pretty cool.

When it comes to getting the weight right, is there flexibility if your creatures are imaginary?

class this week

1. I learned that walk cycles suck. I just hate them with a fiery passion.

2. I'd like to learn to work faster.

3. The animated short, and the walk cycle frustrated me, since I lost my storyboard I started from scratch and I guess I'm just going to combine them. Oh and the bone tool really angered me.

4. I cannot recall anything that really made me happy this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NfH6BMbfTw

This is a youtube video that uses the walk cycle examples we were given in class and shows how to animate them.

response to Disney frozen article

What I learned

1. Frozen is based off of a Scandinavian story, Snow Queen, published in 1845.
2. They had 50 artists working on the ice palace scene, and it took 4,000 computers and 30 hours to render one frame of that scene.
3. The ending was pitched early in 2009.

My opinions

1. I actually did not plan on seeing Frozen because it seemed like just another kid movie, but reading about all the work put into it, makes me kind of want to see it.
2. I'd like to read the Scandinavian story and see what inspired this movie.

Why were there so many failed attempts through the years?

response to natural light article

What I Learned

1. When using natural light from the sun, it's best to have the sun behind the actor.
2. One should always have the correct equipment for the job ( camera, lenses, etc.)
3. Practice makes perfect, so rehearsing repeatedly is key.

this week's class post

• I learned that applying real physics to animation makes it look more professional.

• I'd like to learn how to make my seaweed project look better.

• I  was frustrated with the seaweed thing, I couldn't draw it well and it came out terrible.

• I was happy with my bouncing balls, I finished those rather quickly too.

Thought this was pretty cool, supposedly done in flash http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/home

response to gifs of the 19th century article

What I learned

1. Trying to film one of those machines as a gif is difficult, they are all different.
2. The Magic lantern was invented in the 1600's.
3. The phenakistoscope was invented one year before the zoetrope.

My Opinions

1. What these guys are doing with recording these machines and putting them up on the internet is very cool.
2. I wish them good luck in their collection.


How did they find WORKING versions of thethe machines?