Weekly Comments

     It has been a pretty lousy week I hope the next one will be better. This week I learned how to duplicate a bunch of  objects together and move them all at once with duplicate special. What made me happy this week was that I got all my papers in for Skills Usa. What frustrated me this week is that I got a copyright strike on YouTube... Look at all the features on YouTube I have lost due to my idiocy.

What I want to learn in the future is how to avoid copyright ordeals, and how to approach them when confronted. What is interesting though, Is that the video taken down was created before this class, so I had little to no Idea of how copyright works. I would suggest you look through all your old videos as well so you don't loose your features too.

      My link of interest this week is how to avoid getting thwacked in the face by a copyright notice at 6 in the morning on a Sunday by a copyright strike.

Tips to becoming A better Director

     Being a director is an all around job. It is very a very active job, and requires you to be many different people at once.
     Firstly and most importantly you must give clear direction, if you are a "director" you must send your workers to do exactly what you want to keep them from coming back with questions.  Second, don't always stick to the script because sometimes things look better in real life than they do on paper. Third, take your time but be efficient, not everything has to be rushed, and not everything should take forever, finding the perfect time to work on something is efficiency. Fourth, avoid fights because nothing looks more unprofessional than arguing take whoever is causing the issue off to the side. Fifth, respect and take care of your team. After all you are ordering them around all day, so they might as well be happy while doing your bidding.
     Director seems like a cool job, but is no cake walk most definitely. I never really knew how much a director's job varies. It is also important to understand all the steps in creating films so you can interact at every stage till completion. Definitely I feel that Director is the most important job and toughest because you are the main decision maker.

Adobe Character Animator

     Adobe's new software Character Animator for After Effects allows people to animate characters with their face. Apparently, this allows easy creation of characters in illustrator then transition to after effects for animation using the face. The software analyzes facial movement in real time, then converts it into the movement of the character. Adobe is planning to release this software with the next update for the creative cloud version of after effects, so that is when you can get your hands on it.
     I don't really know how I feel about this software. At the current stage of it, it doesn't seem to have any practical use other than entertaining yourself. I am however interested in what the future holds for this software, because of all the possibilities this could open up in the way of animation. I am specifically interested in the way it lip syncs. If it was more accurate i would definitely use it to speed up the time it takes me to lip-sync.

Weekly Comments

     Finally I dont have to be worried about presenting my presentation. This week I learned how to make a button in maya! It runs a little code so I can key frames in real time! What made me happy this week was that I got to do some modeling in my independent study! What frusterated me and is still frusterating me is making a fluresent light for my scene.  In the future I want to learn more about lights, because that seems to be my weakness when it comes to 3d.
     My link of interest this week is to an article about Dreamworks! I feel it is relevant to me because I visited there two weeks ago. And recently they have not been doing too well buisness wise. Hopefully thier new movie "Home" will bring some more revenue in.Visiting dreamworks has really sparked my interest in this topic because that is one of the places I wish to work at in the future.

Movies or Mind Control?

     Film is amazing in the fact that it can evoke certain emotion in its audience. Alfred Hitchcock is a master at this, lab tests on people in an mri machine watching films showed high brain engagement in his films. This really proves that film is very manipulative and is expecially beneficial to the science of film, in the way it provides information on what methods of filmaking are the most effective.
    The fact that film can affect an audience's mood It is not a new concept we have seen it and experienced it alot, expecially in children you see it when they cry in parts of a film an adult generally wouldn't. I hope information like this is used in the future to make more engaging film!

Why You Don't Want A "Job" In Animation

     Animation is one of the most competitive industries there are. Will Fin a seasoned veteran in animation sees a job as something you depend on a employer for, where as a career is something you're responsible for and you only rely on yourself to keep your contacts, reputation, and skill.  Will said in his blog that he had a dream of working from cradle to grave at Disney with one job like one of the 9 old men. But much differently he bounced around at many jobs. Every job has an end to it, and no job is guaranteed.
     Animation is definitely a hard job not only in skill, but in geting and keeping a job. Your artistic and technical skills are really what allow you to get a job somewhere. I do understand the fact that your overall career will follow you, so the main point is to make your career a good one instead of cutting yourself short aiming for one job that you most likely wont get.