Today we had Ted Tuesday, on a Wednesday again, this is becoming a regular occurrence. The Ted video was chosen by Rob as he got the lowest scores in the test last week. Although Ted test is a give away you would have though he would have got it from the Ted website like John usually does but no he went and got it from the BBC website, so in actual fact it was BBC Wednesday, didn't like this at all!
Considering I didn't watch the video, I done well to come Joint second with 80%
For the half day I had (It was a half day for me, like every Wednesday), I was refining all my characters of which I created yesterday. They are now fully complete and I have added the ship as well. Today I managed to do two main parts of the story at the beginning of the animation. Although John shew me how to do motion tween yesterday, I had forgotten the majority of what he had said (that's what tiredness does to you) but somehow I managed to use it and create two scenes where the main character is in the sea sailing along in search of the lost island and encounters a big storm. The force of the storm take one of is masts down. This took me a fair while to do because when I was trying to do something in flash it would do something totally opposite to what I wanted it to do. In the end I managed to get it to do what I wanted it to do, with some help from Dan, which mean I am well on my way now.
Despite not fully knowing what I was doing in flash I enjoyed the half day and I have partly learnt how to use Adobe Flash but I wouldn't hold my breath on creating something amazing... its never going to happen but I will try my best.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Tuesday 19th March
Today we did not have a Ted test nor did we do a small basic challenge but instead John put us into pairs (I was with Jake) to make a mini about 20 second or so long in 15 minutes. Do our advert John let us all use our choice of chocolate from his shopping bag. To create the advert we had to use Zu3D to create a stop motion animation using a webcam. the idea me and Jake came up with without any planning what so ever was... Jake would rip open the Milky Way and shove it all in his mouth and chew it for a while then lean toward the webcam, take his glasses off and wink at the webcam. Not to forget the amazing palm tree in the background, all thanks to Catherine! The music we decided on was some slow music from Barry white (Cant get enough of your love, babe) which fitted into our mini advert very, very well and went down a treat when showing everyone in the class.
I think by far ours was the best and no one could deny that! the animation was judge by everyone in the class and they would rate it out of ten. There was some very funny adverts from the rest of the class but I think in the end Scott and Rob won the mini advert challenge.
Once all that was over I started on creating all my characters for my animation. bearing in mind I have never used flash before and I have never created and animation either, my characters turned out better than I thought they would, which is very good but now I have the trouble of changing the body positions but I will try and get over that hurdle when I come to it. this was a long ole process as I had to figure out how to use flash but I think I got there in the end, still not 100% confident with flash but as time goes on, i will get used to it and know my way around the programme.
Overall I found today enjoyable as I got to use a new programme and got to create my characters so all I need to do now is create my animation
I think by far ours was the best and no one could deny that! the animation was judge by everyone in the class and they would rate it out of ten. There was some very funny adverts from the rest of the class but I think in the end Scott and Rob won the mini advert challenge.
Once all that was over I started on creating all my characters for my animation. bearing in mind I have never used flash before and I have never created and animation either, my characters turned out better than I thought they would, which is very good but now I have the trouble of changing the body positions but I will try and get over that hurdle when I come to it. this was a long ole process as I had to figure out how to use flash but I think I got there in the end, still not 100% confident with flash but as time goes on, i will get used to it and know my way around the programme.
Overall I found today enjoyable as I got to use a new programme and got to create my characters so all I need to do now is create my animation
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
The Last Week...Before Easter Holidays and Bday!
Today we had a small basic challenge first thing. Instead of the usual small basic learning from a Powerpoint, John wanted us to try and create a text file with the word 'Elephant' in it. I managed to do that and small basic found the text file. I was able to do this in a couple of lines but Lewis managed to this with only one. I looked at how he did his and it was easy to do it in one line.
John then said this task was easy compared to others and i think he was more or less spot on.
For the rest of the day i was going through my plan of my animation and what i want to happen i then cracked on with drawing the story board out. I did not do it frame by frame but did the mains parts in 16-18 boxes so tomorrow I can crack on with maybe starting my animations abut first of all will start the designing of all the characters and other assets i may need to draw out in flash.
I am hoping and praying that when it come to creating the animation that it will all go to plan. If it doesn't then I'm screwed but I will try my best to get it to go how I would like it to go.
Considering I only got about two hours sleep last night, today didn't go to bad but I was just very tired. I Enjoyed planning out my story board for what is going to happen in my animation.
John then said this task was easy compared to others and i think he was more or less spot on.
For the rest of the day i was going through my plan of my animation and what i want to happen i then cracked on with drawing the story board out. I did not do it frame by frame but did the mains parts in 16-18 boxes so tomorrow I can crack on with maybe starting my animations abut first of all will start the designing of all the characters and other assets i may need to draw out in flash.
I am hoping and praying that when it come to creating the animation that it will all go to plan. If it doesn't then I'm screwed but I will try my best to get it to go how I would like it to go.
Considering I only got about two hours sleep last night, today didn't go to bad but I was just very tired. I Enjoyed planning out my story board for what is going to happen in my animation.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Thursday 14th March
Today was the day we started the nee animation unit which only the level threes will be doing.
this unit is a 2D unit and inst all that different from the 3D unit we do the rest of the week, except, obviously that it is 2D.
For this unit I will be working with Dan on a Claymation which is a type of animation, about a life of a computer. we will take the life cycle of a human life and project it on to a computer such as the animation will start off as a phone which will be the baby and then gradually grows and transforms in to many different devices until it gets all the way to a computer which will be an adult. as soon as me and Dan combined our ideas, I could see this going somewhere, which it certainly did as we got to the idea that we have now. I instantly knew this was a good idea of ours as it wasn't anything anyone else had thought of so it was unique in a way.
For the whole day we were coming up with all different ideas that were decent but the main one idea stood out the most so we went with that and we kept on adding ideas and writing about what was going to happen and planing it all out so it makes it a lot easier when it comes to creating the animation.
This will be hard to do as it is a new experience for me but not to sure about Dan but all in all I am confident that we can produce a very good piece of work overall.
I found today very enjoyable as we were able to come up with spontaneous ideas and have some fun with the whole idea of our animation. it was also good hear about what other peoples ideas where as some people had some good ideas too.
this unit is a 2D unit and inst all that different from the 3D unit we do the rest of the week, except, obviously that it is 2D.
For this unit I will be working with Dan on a Claymation which is a type of animation, about a life of a computer. we will take the life cycle of a human life and project it on to a computer such as the animation will start off as a phone which will be the baby and then gradually grows and transforms in to many different devices until it gets all the way to a computer which will be an adult. as soon as me and Dan combined our ideas, I could see this going somewhere, which it certainly did as we got to the idea that we have now. I instantly knew this was a good idea of ours as it wasn't anything anyone else had thought of so it was unique in a way.
For the whole day we were coming up with all different ideas that were decent but the main one idea stood out the most so we went with that and we kept on adding ideas and writing about what was going to happen and planing it all out so it makes it a lot easier when it comes to creating the animation.
This will be hard to do as it is a new experience for me but not to sure about Dan but all in all I am confident that we can produce a very good piece of work overall.
I found today very enjoyable as we were able to come up with spontaneous ideas and have some fun with the whole idea of our animation. it was also good hear about what other peoples ideas where as some people had some good ideas too.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Wednesday 13th March
Today was the day we had a multiple challenge morning as TED Tuesday was moved to become TED Wednesday and also we had a small basic challenge. So watching the Ted video on Monday did pay off in the end for me as I came second overall, which isn't to shabby at all.
The small basic challenge today was to with input and output files. I followed the instructions but at first I was slightly confused but then it became clear what I had to do after John pointed out to everyone that we had to create some folders and a my.txt document and then the small basic challenge would work correctly. I then fully understood what was going on. once everyone tried doing that challenge we all carried on with animation.
Today in animation all of the level threes moved on to assignment 3. Assignment three is where it all gets down to business. First of all we had to come up with a story that would be suitable to a young audience. this too me a while as I was stuck between taking an old childhood story and putting a bit of a modern twist to it or completely making up a new story. I finally decided I would make up a new story and put a bit of "The Moral of to the story" in it. my moral of the story is to make sure you don't get involved with the wrong people.
I had to do some written tasks before I could go into flash and start creating all the characters and the scene. the tasks were basically for writing the plot, target audience, who are the characters and the purpose of the animation.
Today was a good day as I was able to let my imagination wonder and then stop wondering and then wonder again. It was filled with many tasks in such as short period as it was only a half day for me but overall a pleasing day.
The small basic challenge today was to with input and output files. I followed the instructions but at first I was slightly confused but then it became clear what I had to do after John pointed out to everyone that we had to create some folders and a my.txt document and then the small basic challenge would work correctly. I then fully understood what was going on. once everyone tried doing that challenge we all carried on with animation.
Today in animation all of the level threes moved on to assignment 3. Assignment three is where it all gets down to business. First of all we had to come up with a story that would be suitable to a young audience. this too me a while as I was stuck between taking an old childhood story and putting a bit of a modern twist to it or completely making up a new story. I finally decided I would make up a new story and put a bit of "The Moral of to the story" in it. my moral of the story is to make sure you don't get involved with the wrong people.
I had to do some written tasks before I could go into flash and start creating all the characters and the scene. the tasks were basically for writing the plot, target audience, who are the characters and the purpose of the animation.
Today was a good day as I was able to let my imagination wonder and then stop wondering and then wonder again. It was filled with many tasks in such as short period as it was only a half day for me but overall a pleasing day.
Tuesday 12th March
Today there was still no return of TED Tuesday, very disappointed!! I had watched the video the day before and I was raring to go and ready for the test. The Ted video was about the discovery of the Giant of the what once thought to be made but in actual fact it is real THE GIANT SQUID. The people who have found the giant squid were very lucky to actually get it on film as it seemed to be a very mysterious creature that had never been caught on camera. here is the TED video for anyone who want to see the mysterious giant LINK
Instead of the Ted test this morning we watched a very interesting but sad animation short film called Invention of Love. This video has over 4 million views. When watching the video it makes you feel sad inside because of the story line and the music. The whole video was about a guy who invented things for a living, he then met this women and fell in love with her. The guy and the women who he fell in love with moved to this city were everything was mechanical and completely man made. it was a place that no one has every seen before.
The women who he fell in love with was absolutely sick of the city and wanted to change it by restoring some of its natural beauty and nature but unfortunately she died trying due to all the pollution that came off a flower when she blew on it. They was incredibly depressed and very disheartened about the whole situation. He then came up with the idea to reincarnate her by build an exact replicate of her from gears and bolts and made a heart that would stand out.
Once the video was over even though it is very sad it is an excellent animation. This is very professionally done and must of taken them a very long time to create it all. The music fits very well into the short film and adds that extra thing to make it perfect as you can really feel the sadness of the man from the music.
After we had all watched the video I cracked on with some work. I continued with Animation Assignment 2. I believe I have finished the task but I want to read through the whole thing before I send it in because I want to check I have the right amount and relevant information.
Overall today was yet one of those nice and relaxed full of work days, which I enjoy as I am able to get lots more work done without rushing things to quickly.
Instead of the Ted test this morning we watched a very interesting but sad animation short film called Invention of Love. This video has over 4 million views. When watching the video it makes you feel sad inside because of the story line and the music. The whole video was about a guy who invented things for a living, he then met this women and fell in love with her. The guy and the women who he fell in love with moved to this city were everything was mechanical and completely man made. it was a place that no one has every seen before.
The women who he fell in love with was absolutely sick of the city and wanted to change it by restoring some of its natural beauty and nature but unfortunately she died trying due to all the pollution that came off a flower when she blew on it. They was incredibly depressed and very disheartened about the whole situation. He then came up with the idea to reincarnate her by build an exact replicate of her from gears and bolts and made a heart that would stand out.
Once the video was over even though it is very sad it is an excellent animation. This is very professionally done and must of taken them a very long time to create it all. The music fits very well into the short film and adds that extra thing to make it perfect as you can really feel the sadness of the man from the music.
After we had all watched the video I cracked on with some work. I continued with Animation Assignment 2. I believe I have finished the task but I want to read through the whole thing before I send it in because I want to check I have the right amount and relevant information.
Overall today was yet one of those nice and relaxed full of work days, which I enjoy as I am able to get lots more work done without rushing things to quickly.
Monday, 11 March 2013
Monday 11th March
Today when I got in I was relatively happy and calm until disaster struck, I loaded up my computer put my pen drive in and it wouldn't load anything, so I tried for an hour to get it to work and to try and recover everything because I stupidly didn't back it up which I planned to do in the holidays as I would have more time to do it. never got the damn thing to work so I was rather annoyed all day as I have lost all of my work.
Today in the morning we quickly looked at different types of animation techniques which were on YouTube. the video we watched were all different to each other because each one was a different animation. these included Cel animation, digital and stop motion animation. I think John shew us these to see if we have been taking in what types of animation there is and to see if we have been listening. As we did this we did not have time for a small basic challenge, I was slightly disappointed but it didn't bother me to much as I wanted to try and fix my pen drive as it killed itself.
After that and trying to fix the pen drive I cracked on with some work. I started Animation assignment 2 task 1. I got most of the task complete by doing half of the task. Tomorrow I will aim to get that task all completed and send it off to John. tomorrow I also want to complete Animation Assignment 1 task 2 as I lost that on my pen drive so I need to redo it.
Overall Today was a relaxing day for the rest of the class but I was on a bit of a rage because of my pen drive but what can I do not these things happen in life so I have to move on a redo the work that need to be done. but I was glad with my progress on assignment 2 task one and hope to finish it off tomorrow.
I enjoyed the starter as I was able to see some good animation people had created and watching them gives me a few ideas for my later task when we have to create some animation.
Today in the morning we quickly looked at different types of animation techniques which were on YouTube. the video we watched were all different to each other because each one was a different animation. these included Cel animation, digital and stop motion animation. I think John shew us these to see if we have been taking in what types of animation there is and to see if we have been listening. As we did this we did not have time for a small basic challenge, I was slightly disappointed but it didn't bother me to much as I wanted to try and fix my pen drive as it killed itself.
After that and trying to fix the pen drive I cracked on with some work. I started Animation assignment 2 task 1. I got most of the task complete by doing half of the task. Tomorrow I will aim to get that task all completed and send it off to John. tomorrow I also want to complete Animation Assignment 1 task 2 as I lost that on my pen drive so I need to redo it.
Overall Today was a relaxing day for the rest of the class but I was on a bit of a rage because of my pen drive but what can I do not these things happen in life so I have to move on a redo the work that need to be done. but I was glad with my progress on assignment 2 task one and hope to finish it off tomorrow.
I enjoyed the starter as I was able to see some good animation people had created and watching them gives me a few ideas for my later task when we have to create some animation.
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