Class Stuff Week 5

This week I learned that rotoscoping takes a lot of patience and I need to drink less coffee probably.

I hope I learn better techniques on how to do things faster. I am such a slow person at art. (✖╭╮✖)

I am very frustrated at how slow I am at art asfdj

I am glad that this week had been pretty calm. 

☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆  Such a cute little animation~

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Learned Things

• "The simulation engine gets confused by accelerations that in the real world are impossible,” Travers says. “And that adds to the complexity of what we’re doing. Most of the time with fluid simulations, you plug in the numbers and 90 percent of the time right out of the gate, it explodes. You have to run a bunch of simulations to make it work.”  Never knew making liquid would be so much of a pain.
• "We don’t break the physics,” Travers says, “but, if you know gravity in the real world is 9.8 meters per second squared, you don’t say, ‘I’m never going to change that co-efficient.’ Everything is fair game toward making the shot look good. So, you know you need gravity, but you have to let go of constraints and assumptions from the real world. You might set gravity at 2 or 1000 to make the simulation work. If it looks good, it is good.” Gravity science fun. Sounds like too much math to me though.
• "The simulations in this animated sci-fi comedy, presented unique challenges. First, they liquids in whatever form had to be in scale with the size of the edible characters. Milk became an ocean; syrup, a river. “When Barry the strawberry drops into the coconut milk, we needed to have that look like a strawberry in milk,” Travers says, “but Barry is 20 times bigger than a strawberry. So, we had to scale the fluid simulation up 20 times.”" So much sciency things.

Opinions

• Such math. Very think.
• Playing with gravity sounds pretty hard, but I am probably over thinking it. Maybe they just have a scale thing that they click and drag in the program or whatever.

Question

• How much time does it take to produce a full-length 3D animated film? They talk about that one 45 second shot taking 2.15 million hours of rendering time.

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Learned Stuffs

• They use 3D printing to make props and other things.
• "The team placed the silicon, waited for it to gel, and then, as it was still slightly soft, flipped their silicone-coated model at a 45-degree angle. The resulting cast captured the upside-down effect perfectly, Clement said." I never knew being upside down changed your looks enough for them to worry about special techniques of stuffs.
• ""We ended up covering his whole arm with a woman's stocking and we stuck the stocking together between his fingers and painted silicone on," Coulier told LiveScience." I thought that scene was entirely CGI. Fancy.

Opinions

• I think it's rad that they still do makeups instead of CGI for like, zombies and aliens and other humanoid creatures.
• Good script + Great makeups = movie.

Question

• They talk of how silicone is better than alginate, but is it cheaper?

Week 4 of Classes

This week I learned that rotoscoping is pretty relaxing and nice and stuff.

I hope to learn how to work faster. I am a hella slow drawing person I think.

Not all too frustrated, like always. asdufuhsdg

I'm glad there has been a lot of work days because rotoscoping is time consuming as f-hella.

┌（★ｏ☆）┘  Learnin' some art and this happened. 

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Things I learned

• Some people actually think females have to be pretty all the time, even when angry?
• Girls are more emotional?
• I learned that all of the facts from this article are actually questions. 

Opinions

• Lino Disalvo is kinda stupid. Do I even have to explain this? Probably. Well he said sounds kinda sexist with the whole "women have all the same emotions and have to always be pretty bleh" stuff. That is hella annoying.
• All of Lino's female characters look wwaaay too much alike.

Question

• I didn't learn this from this article, but they are using the same model for Anna and Elsa from Rapunzel. Pretty easy to tell and, with that, I can see how he can say that animating them to be different would be hard, but if that's really a problem, why not make a new model?

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Learned Stuff

• We are afraid of zombies because of how they will eat us just because they can't control themselves. Even dear old granny will want to eat you.
• Zombies in packs are much like the brain-dead people on shopping sales.
• Some more fear of zombies comes from them not having any sense of individuality which we strive for as human beings.

Opinions

• I think that it is kinda silly that people fear technology. Isn't technology just a tool and not an individual uh, thing?
• I think zombies are pretty cool even though they might be mainstream. Just because it's mainstream doesn't mean it is bad.

Question

• Why does everyone have to find meaning within everything? Why not just leave zombies at "Oh, a scary, brain-less humanoid thing that wants to eat me. Ahh!"?

This week I learned how to animate in Flash. It's kind of a pain, but I feel like I will get over it and like the program in the end.

I hope I learn how to use Flash better. I am still unsure of many of the commands and where to find things in the menu.

It must be impossible to bother me because wow, I am like, always at a loss as to what to say at this part. Pbppbptpbfptpfbptpbpftt. If anything, it's that I am not used to Flash still, but I will get comfortable with the program (hopefully).

I'm glad that we are finally animating that is what I am here for. Animation is rad and stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlgOX95Q0U&list=TLOIqvV609MvJxVgLz3qiPsyakzJU8VCsd
This has nice animation and is easy to relate to. Also funny. Yay all around.

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Thing's I learned

• We feel emotions that other people feel. That's pretty rad. I guess it kinda makes sense a little but I'm bad at words and can't find a way to explain it. Pfbptpbt.
• People liked Walter even during his times of hardships because of their first impression of his sad and pitiful life that they had shown in the pilot episode.
• Point of view things help us get in touch with what the character is thinking and feeling better than any other way.

Opinions

• I think that the actor of Walter White must be hella rad if he can go from being awesome in Malcolm in the Middle to Breaking Bad and make it work.
• I feel like this article will be very helpful in my career of video things. It is really educational and I will probably bookmark it for future stuff.

Question Time

• Why are psychologists studying movies and TV shows? Don't they have anything else better to study? Like, people that aren't acting for things and stuff?

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I learned a thing or three

• Miyazaki was called a fiend? But he so perfect at animation and I am so sad he retired this year. But he is 83, so I guess even he needs to chill after how ever many years of work.
• They actually make animated films for adults?? Even if it's still a small number, I never knew that.
• I never noticed that every movie has that useless goofy character that is just expendable and not anything. That chameleon thing from Tangled is a good example.

Opinions

• I hella agree that there should be some animated films that are not just G or PG because as much as I love watching funny kids movie, their needs to be some variation. The variation might bring in a larger audience.
• Isn't Avatar (The blue alien version Pocahontas) pretty much all 3D animation though? I don't know much about that, which I hope to change through courses, but there was so much CGI that is was practically an animated film.

Question

• Why isn't there variation in animation? I mean, Japan's got the variation in animation thing covered. They've got, like everything ever over there.