A World of Pure Imagination (Blog #24)

Let Me Throw Some Snowballs At Cha' 

. The story of Frozen is based off of the classic Scandinavian tale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian. I knew this but the fact that the idea has been kick about for several years now since the 40's. Then finally, they are making it.

. Even with it coming out, it does have a different twist from the true story, to suit Disney I would guess. Though I really like how they analyzed the ideas with the characters personalities. Plus just to add, the voice of Elsa would be Idina Menzel from Wicked which is pretty cool

. Also, the animators studied true places in the frozen areas and towns in the Scandinavian side of the world, giving it a more real feeling towards the film.

Personal Opinions

. I really want to see this movie, I've always loved Disney and just I feel like the small 6 year old I used to be, always mesmerized. I like how they reviewed the areas for the scenery and studying trailers, it looks so beautiful.

. Personally, I would have loved to see this made back in the day with the classic Disney art style. That would have looked amazing.

Why Don't I Ask A Question

. Will you see Frozen and what are your opinions of the film?

Our Four-Legged Friends (Blog #23)

Let Me Start This Up:

. If you analyze multiple movies you notice that now, many or almost all have an animal or creature companion or side character in them. It is essential to know how to animate an animal the correct way since they are prevalent in movies and shows alike.

. With characters, show the differences. Every being is different in their own ways so display that in your animated characters from appearance, to walking and all of the above. You want to be different, and showcase your individual style of reel or animation of movement and character. With animals and creatures though, mixing both the animal and human feature brings the character to life, giving them a more relative and relating sense.

.   Just like humans, animals are controlled by gravity and psychics as well. Give your character weight, a most realistic sense as they move in different ways.

Twice the Opinion:

. In my opinion, I agree that drawing animals is a requirement, thought I don't that everyone needs to know how to. Like me, I'm crap at drawing animals.

. I think the whole "We need to have a witty animal companion at all costs" is just a copy and paste ploy. I mean, I DO like some human and animal companionship in animated movies but, not all the time and when it's not needed for the storyline.

Now for YOUR Opinion

. If you were an animated character, who would you want to be your animal companion? (I would want a hedgehog)

Feels Everywhere (Blog # 22)

So for this week, it's been tame, no real activity that is mindblowing or extraordinary.

Been working on my 2D Short in class and practicing lip sync. We also learned the fundamentals of sound recording and work for our own animations which I really liked. Garage Band is the best thing ever.  In regular school, English projects and Health work really, other than that and a good math quiz grade. Again, nothing exciting.

Though I would really like to learn how to do better annotations and notes for my AP English class and better my writing. In Animation, like I said, camera angles. I have to work on that. To make things more cinematic.

Now as I blogged about before and with my videos this week, yesterday was Doctor Who 50th Anniversary and it was everything and more. I'm not giving spoilers because that would be a rather stupid and dumb thing to do, but to those who haven't watch it yet, it was very enjoyable and...shocking. In other fandom news because that's my whole being, man I'm like the news for fandoms.

*COUGH*

BREAKING NEWS

SHERLOCK SERIES 3 TRAILER IS OUT

It was short but, it was just perfect, like literally, so many questions that I need answered.

Now, for the worse side of things, drama. School this week was huge puddles of teenage induced drama that I didn't want to be apart of but I guess the waves crashed into me anyways. Friends being obsessed with women and all, rather annoying. Though, I'll say to further information.

So that wraps up on my week.
Sorry for the extra stuff, just. I like blogging to much.

I'll leave you with the GIF of the week that sums things up:

HAPPY 50TH (EXTRA JUST FOR FUN)

Happy 50th to all, today marks the day of The Doctor and it is splendid!

This is just a video I wanted to share as a friend to all.
I enjoy blogging about things and this needed to be shared.

May the Doomsday never happen and remember, The Doctor has never met anyone who wasn't important before...

Allons-y everyone

If Those Out There Need Help With Poses (EXTRA)

Hello hello hello.

This is just an added special thing, whatever it is but I know how sometimes poses are a total hell to draw at some points so,

http://senshistock.deviantart.com/

This page is loaded with tons of pictures for poses of many types, I use this at points when I honestly don't know how a leg bends.

Just to help some people, here ya go.

(T)ime (A)nd (R)elative (D)imensions (I)n (S)pace (Video # 9)

So to all Whovians out there, the 50th is coming up this Saturday and literally, I can't wait. So for the video I bring with me this week is another band I listen to but, totally related to the Who-niverse. (Ha. I'm so punny)

Chameleon Circuit is a band that associates and writes their songs all based on Doctor Who and this one basing it off of the simple thing of running. You all know that running is a thing you would do an awful lot if you were a companion.

There are good amount of songs with this group and I totally recommend them if you're into Doctor Who.

So yeah! (I end a lot of things like that)



So basically,

Going Back to the Oldies (Blog #21)

Now if I'm like anyone else, I grew up with Mickey Mouse also. Though, I loved the older Mickey Mouse shows and I remember watching Steamboat Willie. Oh the times.

Now, Here's a Thing

. Normally, people making something new want the product to look new and not some out-dated thing. Though on the other hand this is what they want. By making a new Mickey cartoon but making the animation into an "old movie". A pretty difficult process to do but, will be done anyways.

. By making the film appear older than what it really was, animators went in frame-by-frame and made mistakes actually. Funny how usually you don't want mistakes, but back in the 20's there were obvious mistakes of cel damage and dust in the small clips.

. another element used to give that effect, some took sounds of hisses and pops from films of the ole and used them to give it more of an authentic sense.

Two Sense

. I like this! ANOTHER! by making an older short animation like this could open the eyes to children, some could find it, magical? How animation used to be then to now. It will open the eyes of people and me, I like it so much, older animation like so.

. More people should try doing this, indulging into this type of stuff. It's unique now it a weird way as so many things are clean cut. It shows a difference.

Q & A

. Your opinion?? Like or dislike?

The Ever-So Changing Workspace (Blog #20)

We all had the idea that the occupations we all practically want to strive for result in a pretty cool environment though we do have to look after something. It does change with the upgrading technology and demand for things. We'll be constantly learning things no matter what. From programs and maybe even to the lengths of drawing.

Here's Some Information

. Especially with Visual Effects, skills and and dire want for the job is a huge number one. It's very demanding in that field as you, the worker, has t do what is asked for. It really, honestly, has to be perfect in ways. For certain shows and what the visual is. People look for that passion, that burning in that person's eyes for that passion that they really want to do this and nothing else. Now that, is what they want. A good head on that worker's shoulders. So they know they will get the job done.

. We already know that nobody is going to start automatically at Pixar or Dreamworks. You have to work towards that title like everyone else. Though, by throwing your work out there, someone is going to see it. Like it, Share and all of the above. This is a great way to display who you are and your skills. So, get your foot in the door and maybe, you'll finally get into that room you can see right on ahead.

. Saying you want to be in VFX is pretty sweet though, what area. There are so many areas with being into VFX it's hard to pick. Everyone has a job that is something big. Even if it was just moving clothing or whatever else. Think what you want to do and what you enjoy doing. Simple.

The Overall Idea

. Myself, I give a huge clap clap to VFX. Looking at movies in this day and age, for example. The Lord of the Rings series. What they did in those movies blew my mind as a kid. I believed Middle Earth was a real place. (Then of course, I was crushed because come on, who else wanted to live in a hobbit hole or eat Lembas Bread) Anyways, I think VFX needs to be, shined upon more. The people deserve much more created!

. How they state that you don't have to be a master at computers or drawing is perfect. Not everyone is gonna be the same with their skills as people come from different environments and places. Where they got their skills as well. It's all different from each other.

MY QUESTION TO YOU

. Where do you think the magic of VFX will be in 5 years?

Kaiju Blu (Blog #19)

Hey all!




This week has been obviously shorter then other's since we were off Monday but other than that, this week has been pretty upbeat.

In school we've been learning more U.S government fundamentals, but in AP English were gonna be doing a play (yay???) then with Animation, walk cycle's! They seem easy enough and myself, I'm in-bedding it into my 2d short which I started already.

Though, with the way my animation is gonna be and how I want it, I would really like to learn more about the camera angles. Like, what makes things look good, even in an animation. Yeahhhhh

Now towards the title (like some of you were probably wondering) is a reference to Pacific Rim (i love that movie way to much) and pretty much, for Tora Con this year ( a con ) I finally figured out my cosplay ideas.
Day 1 - RED! Medic
then
Day 2 - Newt Geiszler from Pacific Rim

Now THIS is gonna be so much fun.

(SUCH A KAIJU GROUPIE)


These are gonna fun to make though (dem tats)

Nothing really pissed me off more then Devil May Cry 1. Damn camera angles and boss battles.  (NIGHTMARE I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU)

Other than all of this stuff, that's really it.
So I'll leave ya'll be with this Newt.



(NOT SORRY ABOUT ALL THE GIF USE)

Following the Bouncing Pug Head ( Video #8)

So now with a different feel, I bring to you my favorite band. Steam Powered Giraffe.
They pretty much, do acting and things on stage alongside their songs and it's all fun, I really wanna go to a concert.
This is just one of their songs and as you can tell, they represent robots and use the steampunk style which, I friggen' love to death.

JUST SPG MAN

GIF's Can Be Weird (Blog # 18)

The first made GIF's. Simple enough to say.

The Lesson

. 19th-century photographs and drawings were then pictured and made into animated GIF's. A large collection in a museum and as well on Tumblr. They in an odd way, are extremely disturbing in their own way as they continuously loop around and around with their actions. Weird and creepy.

. Joseph Plateau invented the device called a pnhenakistoscope. This device gives off an illusion which tricks the eye. A drawing that's on a disk is spun on a vertical axis, by spinning the disk and looking at the image in a mirror, a continuous image or animation is shown to be moving.

. Plateau's experiment oddly, was only out of scientific questioning and wonderment and thus, this was found. Because of his mistake on discovery, this form turned into entertainment.

2 OPINIONS

. When it is said that Plateau might have jokingly took LSD, I could say so that maybe he could have because of the images in the GIF's how can anyone think of such things. So trippy indeed, I totally agree.

. The Zoetrope gives a much more complex and possibly more smooth animation then Plateau's idea on the Pnhenakistscope.

A Question?

. Should we look into more older ways of animation and use this in more studies??

Idea's , Idea's So Many Idea's (Blog # 17)

So this week, I finally was able to hand in my roto project and it was extremely time consuming but totally worth the effort in the end and I'm very proud of my work to say the least.
Also along with this week, our 2D Animation's are coming up soon and I have way to many idea's to even handle. Finally though, I grappled onto one and choose it. (YAY)

What I'd like to learn, huh. Walking Cycle's!
This is something that' i'm interested in because I draw character's all the time and to just do something simple as walking, it brings them to life so easily.

I got my haircut and it feels so good, this is such a simple happiness and it's wondrous as my hair flows in the wind. Going into battle. FREEEEDOOOOMMM

I got so pissed because of Halloween and I was the only one dressed up!
Like come on, my school totally sucks. UGH

All in all, my week has been such a bore and I'm such a drab person, not sorry.

I'm Way to Hyped Up (Video #7)

Okay, as far as anyone knows. I'm a huge TF2 weirdo and a huge fan.
Though with this video, it's a new video that's coming out soon with others for this years Annual Saxxy Awards. Now I can go on and on about the Awards but this is highly anticipating for me and others part of the fandom. SO YEAH