Iris & F-stop Investigation

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Iris

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Camera Movements Video

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Investigation

 10/12

2D Lip Syncing

I want to try to do some lip syncing in both 3D and 2D this year and implement them into projects. As much as I like the non-verbal animations I would like to try something new and learn something new. I am making a quick project here for 2D and hope I can add some lip-syncing into it. The idea for 2D lip-syncing is that there are pre-set mouth expressions for each sound/letter. This way it is simpler to put together full words and sentences. Once I get the hang of this I feel it could come pretty naturally and be fun.

You can use a chart like this to help with the lip-syncing. I think you can make really simple but interesting or funny animations using this. They might not be the best quality but overall you will get a nice product. I am going to do some testing with audio clips from my friends and myself for this Halloween inspired short. Hopefully all will turn out well, I am pretty far as of right now, but as far as I'd like to be. Overall, I am very inspired and will work hard to get this done for my deadline.

I plan on using this in my first project that I will be finishing soon.

Monday- 2D animation study

Tuesday- Write out quick film

Wednesday- Drawing/Character Design

Thursday- Drawing/Character Design

Friday- Some coloring of frames

Hidden Figures

These are two of my favorite scenes in the movie because of how powerful they are. Even put under all this stress from being considered lesser because she was not only a woman but a woman of color, she still was able to stay strong and stand up for herself. She proves she is more worthy of her job at NASA than pretty much everyone in that room, because she has to work even harder and she proves in then Euler's Method scene that she is necessary for this launch to be successful because no one else was able to think of what she did.

Overall, the movie is great. It shows that if we want to succeed we need to work for it and hard work does pay off. There is also a lot about will power. Even when life keeps telling you "you are not good enough" and you don't seem to be rewarded from your hard work, you just need to keep going. That message especially spoke to me. I have been going through a rough time this year and I think if I just stay strong and suck it up I will be just fine. Obviously on a much smaller scale than the issues the women dealt with in this movie, but the fact that a movie can has a good message that can reach to anyone is an awesome thing. 

Week Of 9/16-20/19

For my first project I plan to produce a film combining animation and real film. I'm not completely sure of my subject or the story yet, but as of now my thought was to have a bug flying in the forest. That was my original idea but I want something with an actual story line and maybe have a more interesting subject, so my idea might change. I suppose these are things I will figure out next week.

To start off I will need to get real footage and make an animation. But and essential part to this is motion tracking. This is something I've never down before and I will have to watch videos and self-teach myself. I don't plan on doing anything crazy for my first time around so I hope the motion tracking won't take up much time.
After watching this video I am even more excited. I hope my project will turn out well and be something I am proud of. Along the way I hope to add more than just the ideas I have now, but I don't want to put too much effort into my first project. I also plan to work on a lot of my project outside of class and hope to help out classmates with their projects. I am very excited for the freedom this year so I can work on any of the many ideas I come up with.

Monday- sick

Tuesday- sick

Wednesday- Lighting in the studio

Thursday- Green scene in the studio

Friday- This blog post

Themes

Two themes I would really enjoy practicing and studying this year are looking inward into the human experience and art as art. The reason I chose looking inward into the human experience is I want to study how to create emotion. Especially with animation I want to be able to make something inhuman have human like emotions. The best films are ones where you emotionally connect with the characters and what they are going through, so I plan to attempt just that. I already practiced this some with my animations last year, but this year I want to try harder and make the character's emotions more complex. I mostly focused on loneliness last year but I want to broaden my horizons and even try this with film. Most of my films have not focused enough on the characters' feelings and they more focused on the plot so I want to change this. I want to have a relatable character that the viewer can connect to, so the film is more personable and less surface level. Secondly, I want to study art as art. I really enjoy avant garde or experimental films and animations that are different. They make you think a different way than most films do and take new approaches to ideas which, makes them original in their own way. These sorts of film always stand out and I hope I can also do this with my work. I am especially looking forward to trying this with animation. You can literally do anything with animation and I want to cross the boundaries and try something completely new. I don't know what that is yet but I am excited to try. Also with film, you are allowed more freedom when making something experimental. You can use all sorts of camera movements and angles not used in normal film and try certain effects a normal film wouldn't use either. Most of all I just enjoy the freedom in my work to do what I want, so that is why I believe this theme is perfect for me. I hope to learn and study these styles well enough for me to use them well and make work I am proud of.

Reversal Of Situation