Just finished animating my demo reel with my puppet. It took a few hours and I'm pretty happy with the result my first time out. The puppet worked perfectly and I'm really gad with the construction. One of my classmates had to quit early because his feel tie downs weren't working properly.

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So here is my final drapery. I got a C+ on it and I'm fine with that. I have other stuff to work on.

The smudges on the edges are just from transit. I wasn't graded on them.


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This was one of the easier and funnier projects I've done. Nice and straight forward and everything went according to plan!

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Well I'm not terribly happy with this one. The sun makes it really hard to see what's going on and it's a little too fast.Whatever. I might go back later to correct the coloring but not now.

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Last Thursday a 22 year old guy from the East Bay was run over by a bus just outside my window. It was pretty messed up to see a just arm sticking out from under the bus for 3 hours. They put a ghost bike up on the corner of 6th ave and Clement. So I get to look right at it every time I leave me house. It looks like both the bicyclist and the bus ( Read more... )

Just some photos I took when I was working on my paper cutouts. Just to give you an idea where I spend 4-6 hours a week. Just standing there. I didn't my other stuff on the wood stage.


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Raar!


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Okay! After 2 weeks here is a new stop motion movie for everyone.

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It took about 4 hours to do this afternoon, plus another 3 yesterday to test movement speeds. I'm pretty happy with the result. But we'll see what everyone else does in class. Mine is the least artsy one I've seen, but has the most moving parts.

So this took about 5 hours over the course of 2 days I think. It was like 90 degrees in the ab today so it was super pleasant! We have a 3 week paper cut-out project starting this week so there might be a dead space for my physical based animation. Well this is my first video with my name and titles!

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An inclass test of the photoshop animation feature. I'm turning this blog into a homework dump. So it will be more interesting as time goes on I'm sure.


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