Home October 7th 2013

I spent about an hour and a half brainstorming what to do next. I was trying to figure out how to do what I wanted and how I could make it transition into the next big scene. In the end I just moved forward with making the bug, and then will figure out the transition to the next big scene after.

Then I ripped apart the last drawing to transition it into the next clean page for the next set of drawings.

The rest of the time was spent animating the dragonfly and making it move. I spent about half an hour doing research of how dragonflies fly. I spent about 3:40 hours animating (ripping apart and dragonfly).

Class October 3rd 2013

I put my self portrait together in a final cut pro document and exported it as an mov. Yesterday I created and shot it, but didn't have time to make the actual movie. This took 45 minutes, where I rendered a few different sizes and some with titles and some without.

Then I worked on putting what I had done on the senior project into an mov file so that the class could see it in motion instead of as stills. I started this 15 minutes before class started, altogether taking 30 minutes to complete.

The rest of class was  spent critiquing everyone's self portraits and productivity on the projects so far.

Self portrait:
1. looks like me enough to know it is me -good
2. "colors of the wind" was mentioned
3. Some find the flowing of the hair weird, while others were not bothered by it
4. Ties in perfectly into what I am doing aesthetically on my final project
5. Delete the sketch underlying the ink, sketch ruins the mystery and overall quality of the piece - mentioned starting with the final image and erasing and saving instead of having to erase so much on the photos I already have.

Project:
1.like slow start and then quick progression, like the change in pace
2. in the test - froze on the wrong frame for the second image
3. Make freeze frame wiggle like the rest of it, jarring to have stuff wiggle and then have a freeze frame.
4. likes the growing tree/trail the best, it is the strongest one
5. Good with the different ways of building and breaking down each scene - keeps it interesting
6. Do something short and simple next to keep the beauty of the big scenes
7. Need to lighten and color correct - need post production edits
8. Swap back and forth between really simple things and really elaborate things
9. nix the animals, keep to landscapes and bugs

Home October 2nd 2013

Not part of the project but part of the class was to do a self portrait animation. I did a realistic cartoon version of myself in the style of the project that I am currently working on.

Home October 1st 2013

Directly after class I stayed to work on the project more. I was in the lab all night, getting setting four and setting five done. Only one more to go for the sequence! Overall I am pleased with how this project is turning out, but there is going to be a lot of editing to do when I am finally done.

I spent an additional 4 hours and 54 minutes working on the project after class.

Class October 1st 2013

Today in class was a work day. After doing random things in class for half and hour, I finally got started with painting the fourth scene in the sequence. By the end of class I did not finish scene four, but I did get quite a ways through it. My paint time is getting faster, but that is probably because the image size is getting smaller.

Worked for 2 hours on the project in class.

Home September 30th 2013

During this time I worked on finishing the third background. I was hoping to get to the fourth but I didn't make it that far. I really like the way that the third one came out.

Worked for 4 hours and 40 minutes (with 20 minutes set up / clean up and a 30 minute break - so really 3 hours and 50 minutes).

Home September 28th 2013

During this time I worked on completing the second forest image, and then worked on transitioning it into the third forest image. Overall I am please with how all of this is going, and hope that it gets better and better as I go. The only discouraging part is how long it is taking to paint each scene. I was hoping to be done with the forest scenes already, but at the current time and only in the beginning stages. Hopefully this gets faster as the images get smaller.

Spent 3 hours and 50 minutes (15 of which is set up / clean up) working on the project today.