Physics and animation!

physics apply to animation in every way. physics is super important when making realistic 2d and 3d animation. Ron Henderson is director of the dream-works research and development team, helps research ways to make animations more realistic and how to add physics into every animation. one think Henderson has researched is bubbles, and how they react with different objects and materials. so that they could make them super realistic they had a live demonstration of people blowing bubbles.

this article was a lot to and didn't explain to much, i feel like it could have used a video or two, to actually show what they were talking about.  studding physics... and bubbles is not my ideal job. although physics is super important in animation in every way and i didnt know they hired some one to do this. there are many different jobs in animation, some big some small.

Lesson from lecter

I found this article/ video to be really interesting. the different small details going into camera angles can show how people are feeling or who is winning an argument. eyes are key when winning the scene. eyes looking right into the camera at equal heights shows equal power. when one person is looking down on the other person it shows that they have more power than the person looking up on them. camera angels can also be used as what a person is seeing.

this video is really cool when explained but i think if i was just watching this movie i wouldn't have noticed that this is what they were trying to do. to me it just seams like a normal(ish) conversation. i didn't notice that the angels of the camera are showing who has more power in an argument, one was told to sit so they did. yet it is interesting seeing this scene of the movie explained 

weekly comments #5

what we learned this week- this week we learned how to animate a flower sack. it was really fun at first but i started to run out of time and rushed threw the ending. It was defiantly not my best animation. Now we are working on our 11 second club lip sinc animation. i can basically hear don't eat the car! not the car  in my sleep now, but hopefully it will be over with soon. Boces was also closed Friday which really sucked but it was nice getting to leave early, no two hour bus ride.

some thing that made me happy- some thing that made me happy this week was finally being done with the flower sac, it was just one of those animations where i just could not get the movement right. i spent way to much detail on other things than the actually flower sack, and procrastinated the entire time.

some thing that frustrated me- some thing that frustrated me this week was having to listen to the 11 second "don't eat the car"audio over and over trying to get the mouth to move in the right spots. just knowing that i'm going to have to listen to that until Thursday, i just know ill dream of it.

Some thing i want to learn- some thing i want to learn is how to do cut out puppet animation. 2d animation has always been my favorite and have preferred it over everything but i think that doing different forms of animation will help me improve in 2d animation.

Link of interest- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufDd-QL1c0 this link is animator vs. animation, i actually saw this for the first time yesterday and thought it was really neat. I'm sure a lot of people already knew about this. Not only is it super smooth but has audio and is a fairly long video.

The hidden mic.

In this post Izzy Hyman shows us seven different ways to hide a lav mic so that you can still clearly hear it. A lav mic is basically a small mic that can be can warn to enhance sound when recorded. Hyman explains different ways to hide the mic behind a tie, in a shirt and in other places where sound can still be herd but not be muffled or interfered by clothing or hair.    

I think this advice can be very helpful for some one who is recording audio or doing an interview. These techniques are creative yet work well.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

weekly comments 4

what we learned this week- this week we finished up our walk cycle and dive animation. we also started on our flower sack animation which is a lot harder than it looks. last Friday we took a field trip to villa maria collage. They gave us lunch and took us for a too and we got to an animation workshop thing. villa maria seams like a very nice collage and i may apply there when the time is right.

what i want to learn- i want to learn how to how to add different details into my animations, like the blur effect and how to add sound.

some thing that made me mad- some thing that frustrated me this week is trying the get the the flower sack animation look realistic.

some thing that made me happy- some thing that made me happy this week is getting to go on a field trip and meeting the the morning class, its nice meeting people have have similar interests as me.

my link of interest- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAg7iTh6FKg