weekly post 3

this week was productive I was able to meet all the required deadlines and on top of that I didn't have to take driving lessons. I liked how we began going over flash and the easy to follow shortcut list that was given out. the only frustrating thing I encountered was the non-specifics of the tutorial sheet. I was disappointed that the animation demo was pushed to next week but its still what I am looking forward too.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYP4wKD-6J8 keeping with the video game inspired theme of my likes this one is to an assassin creed parkour in real life and is very impressive

Walt Disney and Jim Henderson

I understand the historical significance of Walt Disney and Jim Henderson and wile both should be admired for their great achievements and contributions I'm not very interested in what motivated them to achieve these goals. No one cares why George Bush became president, we just care that he drove the country into the ground. My point is no one but shrinks care why you do things everyone just cares about the how and what's to come, I'm no different. That being said I still have to write about so with out further to read here's a what I found interesting.

I did enjoy the similarities in the stories, they say great minds think alike but at one point there similarities bordered on repetitive, I mean I can't be the only person seeing that every time Walt did something Jim did some thing  similar. The next thing I found interesting was the massive differences in personality, Walt was a hermit and preferred to be home (kind of like me) wile Jim like the night life with fast cars and pretty girls. Lastly both protected their character with their heart and soul, witch is under stand able because  to the creator the characters they create are a part of them.

There is no denying Walt Disney and Jim Henderson were remarkable people but I just couldn't help but feel that the article was trying to get me to read the book and quite frankly I don't like reading, especially about other people. I don't care what their first childhood memory was if I wanted to know useless stuff about some one else I'd talk to my sister. Finally I think all biographies and autobiographies should be made into movies and if they're not you weren't important enough.
 My question is "why are these men so much alike, I mean really its scary?"               
               

dreamworks tips

 For this article it's hard to find stuff I didn't find useful the more I read the more helpful the information became, that being said it really hard to make this blog entertaining given the fact that most comity comes from some form of dislike sorry.
I liked the tip about drawing a grid to help portray the ground in key frames, being some one who has the drawing ability of a six legged octopus with stumps for tentacles, being able to show people where everything is in my story boards is helpful in getting my point across. I also liked the tip about setting up the characters in groups as to lessen confusion when animating  because lets face it I'm a pretty confused person and lastly, this is the most important, avoid using flat staggering when possible. That little tidbit of advise is real helpful to someone like me who has the for mentioned drawing ability and who would actually dose that.  It's common knowledge that you should stop bad habits before they start and given my lack of experience its better to know what I shouldn't be doing a head of time before the bad habits form.
I liked the article  is nice to have the for mentioned tips brought to my attention a head of time, especially now that we've started story boarding in class. I believe this article should be read by all students taking animation in order to get advice from the pro's at DreamWorks now if only there movies were better.(one can dream can't they).
my final question is "Are there any more of these short articles and if so where can I find them or can the be blog assignments in the future?"                

weekly post 2

This week I learned how to color using the pen tool, I would love to learn how to use flash so next week is gonna be a big one. The majority of my frustrations this week can be traced back to the pen too acting up, I under stand it doesn't always but come on at one point I thoughts adobe was screwing with me. The highlight of my week was finally putting my charter through the scanner and seeing just how bad I can draw I pixel form.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c9iNfTMUqE is a link to my favorite reviewer (its a word)  named Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and although the language isn't clean the little animations he dose are cool and fit what he's talking about and he's funny.

scarecrow makes enemies

I'm going to start this post off  with the end question, why do people (and by "people" I mean giant corporations with too much time on their hands) make a big deal when someone makes a little controversial statement? (or in this case a video) haven't they all figured out by now if they don't make a big deal about the little thing they'll just blow over. I'm just saying when the bully on the bus  calls you fat you don't retaliate by calling him a nincompoop at the top of your lungs and have everyone on the bus go "oooo (sound effect) he just call you a nincompoop". No you just let you just let the bully have his little victory, go home count your giant piles of money (metaphor officially broken).
Continuing with the backwards trend of this post I figured I should post my options next one of with is a response to funny commercials. I don't know about you but I enjoy the funny commercials and saying some of the best (in my opinion) commercials are poor advertising is just plain rood, just because they put the title doesn't appear till the end doesn't make it bad, I feel it makes good I hate having logos shoved down my throat. The next thing I can say I have an opinion about is brand recognition and that only because I can make fun of it. using a brand name is like telling a joke over and over and over again until the only laughs you get are the kind of "ha ha I remember when that use to be funny laughs" what's the word of that, o'yea nostalgia. And its not the type of good nostalgia either at that point its more like pity and no one likes a pity laugh. In conclusion I don't hate brand recognition but I really think companies should stick to product recognition over promoting their brand.
This brings me to the last point of business the boring list of "what I've learned from reading" with through out the course of my life time can be summarized in a few simple worlds "NOT MUCH". but that probably because I don't ever read and if I due its because I'm being forced or I'm seriously out of ideas. One thing I found interesting though is chipotle's marking strategy was to get a emotional response the only problem is my computer isn't playing the video right now so I don't know for sure it worked, but either way props to them. The second thing was that Chevy had is on viral ad campaign that failed and has since set the standard for how viral ad campaigns go(to put in prospective right off the face of a cliff). Lastly  I had no idea social connectivity played such a big role in making most advertising I mean in hine-sight, yea I new it was a big part, but I bad no idea it was that big or that is reinforced the message so much. To finish the post up that took the up words of around two hours
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music and emotion

It appears yet again, scientists have gone on an endeavor to find out exactly why thing are the way they are. Instead of you know, curing diseases, the science fokes of the world have decided it would be more been beneficial to research "why exactly we get cold in winter". I'm being sarcastic but you get my point, there are a lot of thing out there being reached that are just plain pointless. I'm not saying researching how sound effects the brain is pointless but come on there's gotta be a growing list of diseases that are just waiting for a cure.
Never the less I did find the article mildly informative and stocked with tons of useless information I have now memorized to make all the kids I sit with at lunch feel inferior.(knowing them they'll just one-up me with a funny cat video then make me feel inferior at poker.)For instance the human reaction to sound is subconscious and was put there to help us back in the prehistoric days, to identify animals in distress(screaming) witch usually meant something bad was near by (but when is a blood curdling scream a good thing). The instinct was carried over and now we start we start to get nervous when we here high pitched noises. Something I found funny was Bette Davis  actually felt threatened by music overshadowing her performance, I mean come on its not like music can sprout legs and backflip(although I dare it to do so) and she had already one 2 awards for her acting at this point she's just being greedy. Lastly the article menschen Paranormal Activity's usage of "low frequency" sounds to instill a sense of fear.(because nothing screams "fear" like that annoying low pitched bussing sound at the back of you head... I don't know I didn't see the movie)Credit is still due to them simply because they where able to use music in a move that had no music(because that makes perfect sense).
My only question would be what other movies did Davis win her awards in and for what role? (I know it's a dump question but I had to ask it)                  

weekly comments

This week has been extremely productive in the fact I learned how to operate the basic systems in Adobe Illustrator ranging from the tool layout to the settings and the side bars. The thing I am most anticipating is how to create a animated charter using illustrator. the most frustrating thing that has accrued this week was trying to get the pen tool to work properly and operating the massive menu bars I'm glad that illustrator has many different ways to do thing but in the future I would prefer a more straight forward solution. As mentioned before I am really looking forward to the charter creation project and I hope by the time this is read it is up and running (fingers crossed).


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlm-AFVzDcc this is a link to an behind the seens about how the wonderful people at Sucker Punch studios made the new patricidal effects for there up and coming game infamous second son enjoy. 

are hollywood studios making to many animated movies response

I was well aware that it cost a lot of money to produce and direct a movie but was I was blissfully unaware  that some of my favorite movies like the "Iron Giant" was actually  responsible for layoffs in its company. Second I was also unaware of the massive amount of animated of animated films coming out around the same time, its just something you notice until someone points it out. Third I didn't know that Disney's "plains" was originally set to be released straight to DVD or that they were planning to create a sequel.

I'm not all that surprised that the movie business over extended themselves on something like animated films they would be generally cheaper than doing live action, and they all go through video edition any way so making a movie purely on the computer just makes more sense. I was also relieved to her that animation is not going anywhere, I mean mans gotta eat right.

My only question would be who else will jump on this animated movie band wagon so to speak.

Low Budget Filmmaking Production comments

It is truly impressive what can be accomplished on a low budget, from the creative ways collage students can cook rawmen noodles to the creative ways to the way soccer moms stretch their dollar. But the fact that that some of Hollywood's greats special effects can be its cheapest is just astonishing. I had idea that Steven Spielberg actual used these kind of wide shot tricks to get some of his footage. I was also unaware that California had such divers array of environments so close together make it the reason it is so ideal for film making. Finally I was equally impressed that there was actually a door slam during the filming rather than added in after.

In my opinion it is extremely impressed with the fact some of Hollywood's greatest effects are as simple to create as a planted camera and a sand dune. Second I thought it was cool that the most of notorious the desert seens were shot only 200 miles away from Los Angeles.

My only question is when is the movie coming out?