This is what I’ve been doing for my animation class. I’m still learning dragonframe and this is the first time I’ve added in audio. It’s a work in progress. I want to make more of these. But I will stick with 3D. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone off the deep end, but I have been corrupted. HAHAHA!
And a quote of the day: “I should be on medication, I’m sure.”
It’s always interesting to stop and realize what has influenced the decision making up until this point. When I was in 6th grade, I remember reading an article on stop-motion animation and doing a report on it. No one believed me when I said that it took the animators three weeks to shoot thirty seconds of usable footage. I believed it and now I’m living it, although technology has improved beyond imagination from 22 years ago. Who knew I’d be animating in grad school? When I was in 6th grade I had no idea this could be so awesome. And thanks to Toby and his scattered wooden gears, I have another element to animate. Sketches to come soon. By the way, I love epic instrumental music. Been listening to it while I’m working and it makes everything seem so much more exciting. That, and having Lulu in the studio space.
More Fox and Owl adventures!
Random thoughts. Please bear with me.
I’ve been witness to some pretty fantastic disciplining in the past couple of weeks. Susan has had some late kids and some disappearing kids and some let’s-not-do-any-work kids. Unlike some teachers she does not embarrass them in front of the whole class by calling them out on their slacking. She walks over to them while others are working and asks them to come out into the hallway. She then explains things gently but firmly and sends them either back into class or home, depending on the situation. I admire this method. It focuses her attention on the students and the problem, it avoids gossip, it focuses the student’s attention, and it avoids embarrassment. Awesome.
I’m making boxes. Meticulously.
So, I was driving home late on Friday and was attempting to not end up in a ditch somewhere on 29. It was snowing and the roads were quite terrible. Add cloud cover, snow covered fields and light pollution together and it ends up being slightly eerie. The clock says it’s 12:04, but I could see well enough to turn off my lights. I didn’t- don’t panic. The crazy part was when I could no longer see a horizon. The sky and the ground had melded into one color and I could not differentiate between them. It’s the strangest optical illusion I have ever been privy to: Pale light, no horizon and constant movement. Very twilight zoney.
I love working with Dragonframe. Just need an updated video card. And decent weather so I can drive around Columbus without dying.
All of this snow and ice, freezing and thawing has created some amazing icicles outside of my back door. There is a group of them that have grown legs, splitting at the bottom. Along my drainpipe is one that is currently over six feet long and thicker than the drainpipe. The perfect murder weapon… but that’s been done before.
This is the beginnings of the stop-motion animation for my experimental animation class. I’m having fun. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten to use scissors on a project. Hahaha. I’m obviously not finished with this, but at least it’s a start. Someday, if I’m still animating, which I hope to be, I would love to get a better camera. One that has live-view would make everything just a little easier. Oh well. Enjoy.
I’m playing around with Dragonframe. This is my first sketch. Short and simple. The next one might have sound. I’m working on what sounds, if any should go into these animations. It will probably be music. Instrumental definitely, piano maybe. I had a good talk with my mentor today, about textures, technology, Eva Hesse, connections via titles or words, and maybe how to touch without touching. I’m doing a lot of thinking today. And I think best when I’m working. Good thing my pieces are so detailed oriented, it gives me extra time to do all this thinking. Lots of mesh squares. I’m going to go make some boxes.
I am liking the experimental animation class. I’m not a huge fan of drawing my animations, but I tried. And I turned it into a gif. Tada!
And remember the rule of 3’s.
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