Final: Animation (Jaime Uses the Internet)

Easy Paint Tool SAI was used to draw the faces. HyperCam2 was used for screen capture and iMovie was used for the bulk of the animation. Adobe Premier Elements 11 was used for the keyframing and final editing.

Animation YouTube Upload

Here's the link to the YouTube video for my first animation done in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIjIh0ioqA

Juxtaposition

Here are my juxtaposition practice pieces.

Video

For this video I just wanted to play around and use different images that play with your eyes and your mind. Using a lot of rotation and scaling. This was my first time using Adobe Premiere Elements and it was a fun and stressful experience trying to get every image to work the way I wanted it to. 

Final Animation: Storyboard

My 1-minute animation will be a completely abstract, fast-paced piece inspired by the animator Len Lye. The piece will start out with a bouncing black ball with brightly colored confetti shapes on it. The ball grows larger and larger until the screen is all black with confetti shapes now starting to scatter and fall down the screen. The shapes begin to turn into fuzzy lines and multiply, with stripes of additional colors appearing. Then, a blue “wave” will scoop up all these lines and start rolling around with them as a ball. Tiny creatures come to the rescue, the stripes are freed from the big blue ball, and the stripes and tiny creatures part ways. 

Working title: Mini Mote Saga

Album cover

This is the inner sleeve of my record cover.

This is the front and back cover of my album.

This is the basic sketch of my album before I transferred it onto illustrator. I used the pen too for basically all of the cover but the back and inside were a little illustrator and photoshop.

Juxtaposition

These are my juxtaposition pieces, i could have sworn that i posted them in class but i guess it didn't go through!

Animation

For my animation I am going to do a more abstract video, like the examples in class with key frame animations over it at certain points. The working title for my final project is Visions or something along those lines. In terms of narrative I'm trying to show a girl who has a  strange dream. The keyframe animation will add to make the dream feel weirder.

For my final animation I would like to wish everyone a happy holidays by having a christmas tree decorate itself. the tree will get bigger and the lights will then wrap itself on the tree. After that, i will snap my fingers and candy canes will appear. From there, happy holidays will work its way in. This will be in stop motion but i would also like to include key framed snowflakes  falling down at the end of the video.

For my animation, I wanted to deal with ecosystems on a microscopic level and wanted to focus on an aquatic environment, like ponds or wetlands. Instead of having an obvious narrative, I plan to have segments focusing on different organisms that exist in aquatic habitats, such as algae, water plants, macro invertebrates and microorganisms, and animals that live in or near the water. I plan on using images of these organisms under a microscope and layering them together to echo the complexity of the ecosystem. Here are some images I plan to use. Hopefully you can get an idea of what I'm going for from them, as the storyboarding in my sketchbook just looks like a bunch of squiggles and massive walls of awful handwriting and doesn't make much sense.

I think my biggest challenge is not making my video dry or boring. I want it to focus on biology without being too esoteric and uninteresting.

Story Board

My idea for this project is to juxtapose sun and moon. The fun thing about it is that it will all take place is in this guys head. It will take a lot of fading opacity and making sure I do not think too hard on position/scale. This project is going to be very tedious, but I am looking forward to the outcome!

Desperate Measure (working title)

This animation is about a dad who forgets to get his son his Christmas present. Since it's 5:00 am at that time, there's not much he can do, so he makes a desperate move by writing a letter to Santa to deliver his son's gifts to him on Christmas. My goal in terms of expressing the story visually is to use simple character and background designs as well as simple keyframe animation in order to finish the project on time.

Animation

I wanted to wait until I had fixed this before I posted it, but I won't get a chance to before the break so I'm posting it now. In the program, the background was the perfect size, but when I uploaded it to Youtube, the background shrunk. Besides that, everything worked well and I had fun making this short video.

Typical Comic

Animation

      So for my animation exercise, I decided to go with the concept of unity.  I selected three shapes that I thought worked really well together which was a star, triangle, and a trapezoid to complete this exercise. In the beginning, I thought that it was a smart idea to make all three shapes fade in and then rotate around one another because it shows a since of confusion. Then, at the end I made all of them join with one another to show that unity is important when you work as one big group. There is a couple errors in my project that needs to be fixed, but I currently used what our professor taught us so far and I hope that you like it.

Animation

This is the first animation that I have actually ever done, but I work a lot with video art, and I am minoring in film. I really enjoyed doing this first animation and learning more about key framing. 

I tried to make it look like the moon was coming up from behind the clouds and the birds,plane and kite were all flying. 

Animation

I didn't know anything about animation before this. But it was fun playing around with the effects of the animation. Since the winter weather is here i decided to do an animation of snow.

Paige Quill

Animation

I didn't know anything about animation before this. But it was fun playing around with the effects of the animation. Since the winter weather is here i decided to do an animation of snow.

Paige Quill

Animation

It's my first time at animation ever. I wasn't intending to for any of the shapes to move but apparently while I increased the size or rotated an object I slightly moved it as well

Animation

I didn't have too much trouble with the keyframes, but synching the bird and the wing gave me a little bit of trouble. This was my first time doing any kind of animation.

Animation

So I'm not exactly sure why or how this happened, but the video I uploaded to YouTube was a second longer and the keyframes were changed (parts don't go where they're supposed to) compared to when I turned it into a MPEG file. Nonetheless, here is the link.

15-second animation

Here is my janky animation: http://youtu.be/HRpGXTbJ5b4

I had no trouble making the initial key frames, but got into trouble when trying to fix the kite's path so that it would fly correctly and smoothly.

This was my first time doing any digital animation.

CD Project

The concept for my mix CD is stories and passages from the Bible that are interpreted through electronic music. I was originally just going to interpret epic battles from movies and video games with electronic music, but I felt that this concept was a more interesting and different direction to use, especially since I’m trying to use this genre instead of traditional Christian music to bring more life and energy into passages in the Bible that mean something to me personally. The titles of each track will actually be the name of the story or passage I’m interpreting with the song itself in parentheses. The tracks include:

1.    Genesis 1-2 – “Creation” (Animus Vox- The Glitch Mob)

2.    Matthew 4: 1-11 – “Jesus’s Temptation” (Professional Grievers Instrumental- DeadMau5)

3.    Romans 6: 14 – “Free of King Death” (First of the Year- Equinox- Skrillex)

4.    Mark 11: 22-24 – “Trust 100%” (Ghosts N’ Stuff- Deadmau5)

5.    Acts 2: 44-47 – “We are WE when we are UNITED” (Unison- Porter Robinson)

6.    1 Corinthians 15 – “Keep Moving, It’s Worth It” (Fortune Days- The Glitch Mob)

7.    2 Corinthians 12 – “Boasted Flaws” (Strobe- Deadmau5)

8.    Matthew 6:25, 34 – “No Worries” (Green and Blue – Koan Sound Remix)

The following images below are sketches of ideas for the imagery and logo for my CD cover. Sorry for some of the cropping that occurred in some of the sketches; my house printer was inside of a shelf, so the scanner door couldn't open all of the way and I couldn't fit my whole sketchbook inside :| (and I didn't want to rip the pages out, either).

Here are the photographs that were manipulated in the final piece:

This photo, which originally served as the DJ table's platform, was removed because it look too much like a piece of bathroom furniture:

Video Project 1

15s Video Project

CD Project Final

The concept behind my CD was to show almost a story with the songs and artwork that I chose and made. The songs start out with someone in love but feeling weary about it, and then they go through heartbreak. The final songs are happier and about how you should be confident with yourself and how everything will work out in the end. I think my artwork show someone who looks like they feel very sad, lost and frustrated. I love photography so I was really excited about this project. I wanted to edit the pictures I took differently then I have before. I really like the techniques we learned in class and I started playing around on photoshop and came up with my ideas. I liked using text and creating an actual object that could actually be sold and bought.

Final CD Project

Final CD Project

     So for this particular project, I decided to do something a little different from everyone else and construct a Sports CD for children, since I am an education major. All children value the concept of play because it tends to be a way in which children can communicate with their peers and other children in or outside the classroom setting. With this thought in mind, I decided to design a CD that is both bright and colorful and includes music that will make children jump around and have a good time. This is a CD that i have made especially for future teachers, faculty, and parents who love to have a great time with their young ones. I decided to make my cd layout very colorful since children really love a lot of bright colors.

Complete layout

cd cover (subject to change)

CD Project Final

For this CD project, my concept was simply to interpret Bible passages that meant something to me personally with electronic music since typical Christian music would be too easy to interpret.  The songs I've used have a certain energy in them that cause the passages I've selected to feel more alive rather than just black and white print on a page. When I was brainstorming ideas for the name of my mix CD, I eventually decided to name it "Vibrant Black." The color generally used in text is black, and electronic music tends to create a lively, energetic and colorful mood or atmosphere. This concept is also represented in the CD case design itself. Colorful letters are bursting out of a black and white DJ table, and the color gives more life to the overall black and white design. When I was choosing which songs would interpret which passage, I just read the passage and then listened to different songs as I was reading it. The songs I chose were based on loose interpretation, so I simply just chose a song if I felt that it matched what the passage was saying. If you look at the CD, you'll notice that the order of the passages listed are in the same order as the tracks listed on the back of the CD cover
(ex: "1. Genesis 1-2" matches with "1. Animus Vox -  The Glitch Mob").

Final CD Cover (unfolded)

Front

Back

Inside and CD

CD Project Final

This is the final digital copy. Luckily, I stayed consistent with my theme. After folding, I plan to add a transparent slip where the sd will go. 

CD Project Leonard, Danny

            For my CD project, my theme was love. It sounds really sappy and cliché but whenever I choose to make a project for a certain person, it always seems to mean more to me and makes me very motivated to get it looking just the way I want it to. Needless to say, I’m making this particular project for my girlfriend. The track list is full of songs that we both listen to because they remind us of each other. I wanted it to have a beach theme because we both love the beach and many of these songs remind me of the summer when we met. I also wanted it to have a sort of scrap book feel to it so I used pictures of us throughout the project and used textures to create the different surfaces in the project with shadows all coming from a similar light source to create the illusion that all the objects are actually hanging just above the paper. Overall I’m happy with how the project turned out and I can’t wait to give it to my girlfriend.

CD Project

My concept for my CD album cover is songs that are relaxing and calm. They are the type of songs that my family and I like to listen to while sitting outside on our back deck while the sun is going down or at night time. So that is why I chose pictures of the ocean for the front and back cover and then a picture of my deck for the inside, along with a faded stars effect over the pictures that came from a picture of the night sky.

 Back:

 Front:

 Middle:

CD: