Photoshop

Today the class learned how to use photoshop on mac computers. they learned how to use the paintbrush tool, the select, rotate and erase tool. They learned how to use layers and how to make part of layers invisible by using the erase tool. I already know how to do all of this, as well as make use of the timeline toolbar to make animations. I've used photoshop since before I started high school. My dad taught me the basics and after that my friend from singapore started critiquing me on my photoshop work, which helped me to use it more proficiently.

Freak of the Week

Recently I found an animated music video by the band Freak Kitchen. The animator of the video was Juanjo Guarnido, who is also known as the lead animator of Tarzan and Atlantis. As a fan of metal, and as an animation student I enjoyed this animation immensely, not only because of the subject matter, but how they mixed together the use of a hand drawn master along with CG animation to make the video. Needless to say this song will be in my music library soon.

Animation studies 2

Today our class worked on making an animation of anything we wanted.  I was having trouble thinking of an idea so I brainstormed in my sketchbook. I decided to draw a dwarf with a fat bird bouncing on his head while trying to fly. I haven't finished yet but I've made good headway from having no idea what to do.

Animation studies 1

Today we turned in our ball animations and our pixellation videos we worked on on thursday. I still haven't finished my pixellation and I hope I can get it done this Wednesday.  After lunch we started on a pendulum gif animation by using animation paper. It was 24 frames of a looping pendulum. Later we're going to work on a looping gif of anything we want. I'm looking forward to it.