You May Never Be as Good at Filmmaking as You Want to Be, & That's OK

Some thing that just about every one does is compare them selves to others, especially in film making and animating. in your eyes you may feel intimidated by some one else or think that there better than you. you may think that some one will always be better than you, but you are your own person you have your own ideas. Many people put them selves down because they think they will never be as good as some one they look up to, and this can eventfully lead to wanting to give up on film making or animating. you just have to always try your hardest and be the best you can be. look to people for inspiration not a comparison.

I really liked this link, it was on a more personal side where many people can relate, me especially. last year in the animation class I was almost embarrassed to show my animations because I had no confidence in them, because I was constantly comparing my self to others, thinking that they will think its dumb of not animated very well. i'm sure many people have been through this struggle but you can only continue to do what you love to do and not let other people's work put you down, look to them for inspiration.

Thumbnails and Planning.

 Planning and creating a story board for your animation is some thing you always need to do before you add in details, or even begin to think about animating. Having a well planed out and well thought story board will help you later down the road. this can save you a lot of time and money. When planning your beginning steps for an animation you don't want to make them very detailed. its better to have just enough detail so you can tell what the movements are. Later in production you can add details and color depending on the animation. to much detail at first makes it hard to go back and tweak small points. when doing this you really want to show the movement and not the detail.

This wasn't one of my favorite articles to read it was very short and not a lot to say. every animator should start off with a story board, new animators and old. this helps you get ideas and lets you add in details later when you are actually animating. its also important to draw different poses of your character from different angles to really know the character completion. different facial positions and expressions are important to draw also to know what your character would look like wither different emotions and when saying different words. It really is important to plan out your animation before animating.

Weekly review 8

Week in review-   This week went by kind of slow.  Monday we had our documentary conferences , to talk about what were going to do for our next big project. Tuesdays Wednesday and Thursday were all shadowing days.  Wednesday Niagara falls came, i think maybe one or two were at least a little bit interested in this program. most of them talked in our demo or were on there phones. Thursday Starpoint came, and they actually seamed interested in this class, they asked questions and talked about there experiences with programs and even thanked us for showing them some cool things.  Thursday we also had an explosions demo in aftereffects. its a lot easier then i thought it was going to be. but this will be a fun project to do since we can get footage of some thing we want to blow up. Im honestly glad were done with shadowing for a while now to work on explosions and the typography project.

Some thing i learned-   Well, Thursday we leaned about explosions, yay. this is some thing i wanted to do for a while, and when i heard we were eventually doing this project i just couldn't wait. Again its a lot easier than i thought it was going to be.

Some thing i want to learn- Id like to learn more bout my new camera, so many settings i have no idea what they mean. I'm going to end up reading the little book that comes with it front to back.

Some thing that made me happy- I'm just about done with my typography project, just want to make a few adjustments. Bridge didn't crash on me for once, yay. I also got a camera a few weeks ago so i don't have to worry bout signing one out anymore.

Some thing that frustrated me-  Saturday we brought my great grandma to the states from Canada for a visit, and on the way back to bring her home the boarder people stopped us and made her walk up into the building to be scanned and have all these background checks done, because she has a dual citizenship and her passport doesn't say that she lives in Canada. She's 94, can hardly walk and it was freezing outside. They gave her such a hard time an were beyond rude to us all. On the way home they yet again stopped us, saying that one of the carpets were folded over in they trunk. So they pulled us aside again and tore out every thing in the trunk, went through every little nook and cranny of the car. On top of that my mother had had her daily medication and vitamins in a small container in her purse. Well they thought she was trying to sell drugs in Canada so another two hours go by with them searching the car again. Apparently its illegal to carry medication in any other container than the one it comes in, if she didn't have the Walgreens app on her phone we would have been detained over night in Canada until they could verify that they were hers. Not a fun day.

Link of interest- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6xGKxRpP8 this link it so a Photoshop tutorial that i thought was really cool. This adds a smoke effect to your image, an makes it look like your image is make of smoke. This person has many photoshop tutorials, some better than others. i always liked to play around with photoshop and there are tons of tutorials out there to do amazing things in this program.

Keys to creating complex transitions.

Transitions, some thing I personally don't like. I find most of them kind of cheesy, even know they are very helpful. Transitions are often over looked or underused. Transitions connect two parts of a story. Make sure that the subject in your videos are lined up perfectly and that the lighting is the same in both parts of the transitions, to make a seamless transition from one clip to another. Sound is very important. even if you footage isn't the best or don't fit very well together the right sounds can totally change that to make the transitions better. when the perfect sounds and clips are put together it can really seam amazing. this helps make the transitions fluid.

This wasn't one of my favorite articles, there wasn't very much information provided and when I watched the first video to me it was like there was no transitions at all. the transitions he was talking about was one clip fitting with the next clip, I don't really consider that transitions, more like clip alignment. There was a lot of amazing shots in the video some that make you wonder how they accomplished that with out breaking the camera or how close they must have been to some what dangerous things to get the right video needed.

Weekly review 7

Week in review-  Tuesday and Thursday we had 10th grader shadowing, and its not very fun. Wednesday there was a typography quiz and a notebook check. I'm also about half way done on my typography project, hopefully ill be able to finish in time.

Some thing I learned-  typography is a lot harder than it looks, especially with adobe bridge hating me. I ended up starting over and my second project is coming together much better.

Some thing I want to learn-  I really want to learn how to make explosions, I think this will be a super fun project and cant wait until we can start them

Some thing I enjoyed-   I did enjoy finishing my tutorials finally, and starting in my type project, once I got the hang of it

Some thing that frustrated me- shadowing, shadowing is no fun. most of the time no one says any thing not even a smile a giggle or a hello, like there scared of us or some thing. I cant wait until shadowing Is over.

Link of interest-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOi5P1qxrM4 this is a link to a tutorial on how to do a simple typography project, this helped me out a lot because I wasn't even sure where to start off,