Animation Storyboard

I had finished my storyboard the night prior to it being due. However, when I went to open the AI file to upload it to my Google Drive and take a screenshot of it, the file became corrupted and I couldn't open it. I don't know why or how that happen. Anyway! That's besides the point. In class today (because of my file being corrupted) I had to redo my storyboard the best I could remember. It really did help though after we critiqued them. I had to explain to my group what I was planning on doing and show them the files that I did have, which was the logo itself.. separated. The Markiplier logo is a pixeled M and a pink mustache (or warfstache.. Markiplier as an alter ego for the mustache). After explaining what I was doing for the animation, I got some feedback. The main change that I am having in mind is that I will separate the M and the mustache. The M will still transition the way I planned but the mustache will "grow in" separate from the M. It will then do the same movement that I had previously planned on doing with it. Another suggestion was to add in a sound from Markiplier from one of his videos. I had thought about this as an addition but after someone mentioned it, I decided to add that in. Here is the complete storyboard.

I still need to get the storyboard approved by Pannafino. Hopefully this'll be okay. I feel pretty confident about this. However, I can see there being a time restraint on this because there is a lot going on in 3 seconds. Maybe it will be alright to go over just a little bit.

Meaning in Motion

I had a fun time working with this project and feel like it came out

quite well. I wanted to keep using the fade in and fade out only because

I felt like if I would have used any other motion, it would not have fit

with the overall tone of the quote. Oh! I forgot to mention that this quote

is from King Mickey in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, specifically

Kingdom Hearts 2. It's my absolute favorite game and game series of all time.

Rhythm

Infinite Version

http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=gdhUS_z0kV0&p=n

Week 3C

Week 3B

Today in class we went over some more motion principles. Pannafino had discussed about the meaning of "duration" and "pause". After going through the small lecture of that, he had introduced us to a new program from Adobe called After Effects (AE). AE is a video editing/creation software depending on how you want to use it. After telling us about AE, he had us get into groups, mainly just our rows, and discuss with them what our dreams were. This eased us into our next project, the Sequential Dreamscape. What we are are doing is that we are making an abstract video with textures and words describing our dream. We then got back into our groups and tried to help each other brainstorm on how to go about this project. I think this is going to be a fun and easy going project seeing as how I have had experience in AE. I also love making things abstract and having to make people think because a lot of people think differently and I always want to know how and why they see it that way.

Week 3A; Dream

I had this dream the night that the "dream blog" was assigned. So, to start off, I work at GameStop and our staff primarily consists of women: Stacey (the store manager), Hillary (the assistant store manager), Liz (senior game adviser), Me (another senior game adviser), Justine (game adviser), and then there's Wyman (game adviser). My dream started off at the beginning of the week. Liz had just asked if everyone and their significant others wanted to have a Super Smash party on Friday, meaning everyone would be playing Super Smash Bros. and we would all get pizza and stuff. Flash forward to Friday. We all go over to Liz's place, all ten of us. Well, for one, the new Super Smash Bros can only handle eight people playing and somehow we were all playing at once (I don't know.. dreams don't apply to any rules). The pizza was already there and we were all having fun. The TV started acting up and going blurry and static appeared once in a while. Liz had said that it was fine and that her TV does this every so often. I started to freak out in my head because I HATE static. It just makes me feel uncomfortable. My boyfriend asked if I was okay and I said not really. But that is where it all started. It got very late and we all said our goodbyes and left. My boyfriend and I went back to his apartment and I still wanted to play so I played Super Smash on my 3DS. It then started to produce static and I was like, "What?! I've never seen a freakin' 3ds do this!". My boyfriend was in the other room and asked what was going on. While I was in mid sentence of explaining, I get sucked into my 3ds! Somehow I see my boyfriend run towards the system and freak out. Then it switches to his point of view and I see myself in the character selection screen. Then I woke up... Dreams are weird.

Week 3A

In class today, we looked over everyones' line animation projects and had a class critique. My animation was one of the shorter ones and needs quite a bit of improvement. For one, a classmate said that the line should have more downward motion because of the description of contempt which I agree completely. I have the line moving upwards which usually indicates a positive emotion. Another classmate said that towards the end of the video, it was executed better than the beginning because of the line going downwards and hunching over. I just wish I was able to illustrate my line better. Contempt is a complex emotion and I feel like its' more of a "hidden" emotion. But, I could have approached it in a different manner. So, I need to add more frames to make it longer and I think I should have it shown as something that is in a hate/disgust state of mind.

Week 2 Out of Class

So, over the weekend I was trying out different scenarios for the "contempt line" representation. The one thing that I think of with the word contempt is that most people look down on someone, shake their head, and barely even sees the person as someone important. I tried to animate a line showing the actions of being contempt and showing some kind of emotion through it. The beginning of it shows the line coming in being jagged and sharp showing anger. It then pops up with its' top being curved to show the emotion of the persons mouth and the displeasure one has when contempt. It then stands straight and shakes its top part and goes crooked again. Here is the link to said video.