Bunnies Animatic

After we critiqued the short storyboards we were instructed to use the given advice and make our SB's into animatics.

Dick America Dicks America

The final for my main animation class was to make a short film by using any of the techniques learned over the year. I decided to team up with a Mr. Ryan Tonner. We had had a couple running jokes throughout the year but the one that stood out to us as having the most story potential was Dick America. Ian Tyrone was kind enough to do the voice over and away we went without looking back or questioning the concepts we were depicting.



and that concludes my Sophomore adventures. I ended up producing a ton of work that year and made a lot of lasting relationships.

Stop Motion

In the main animation course we were tasked with playing around with stopmotion. So me and my classmates goofed around and played with pixillation and such. Here are our results.





and here is a little stopmotion that my fellow animator, Ryan Tonner, and I worked on together.

Sandimation

For the next project Doug setup a box of fine sand on a light box underneath one of our testing cameras. The assignment was to mess around with the sand then create a landscape and depict water. I really enjoyed this project. Also after we were all done there was another assignment to edit the entire classes collection of sand animations into a song of our individual choosing.

Crystal

Here is the final for my Designing the Frame class. The project was to re-tell the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a more modern style, use Photoshop and Illustrator to create the images and then make it into an animatic in After Effects. I choose a more trashy approach and again made some not quite right music in Sony Acid Pro.

Hitamus Rocketus

Anticipation is one of the major aspects of good animation. This project was a lesson based solely on that principle. This would be a good point to mention that almost all of the characters I use in these projects come out of stream of consciousness sketching which is just about how I do all of my sketches. Generally i have no idea what I'm about to draw until I start putting pencil to paper.

Bouncing Balls

As per usual animation introduction classes our next assignment was that of the bouncing ball. We were required to create a first pass for review, make corrections and then render it. At this point I also discovered the sound sampling program Sony Acid Pro and decided to make a cheesy soundtrack.

Sophomore Flip Books

Begin sophomore year! Everyone was excited to finally be starting their majors. It was nice to see that my animation class was made up of mostly people I hadn't had the chance to interact with much. Little did I know that these people would become my dearest friends. Our first assignment was to do a series of flip books on various topics, something beautiful, something ugly, something observed and something strange. I decided to make my series blend into each other. The main idea with this assignment was to get us thinking in a linear pattern. Also Doug collected all of the books and would not return them until the end of the year so we could have a chance to see how far we'd come in a year.

Breathe The Scene

Second semester of Freshman year was a bit different than the first semester. It was split up into three periods in which we took five week long workshops. My first was with Brett Reif in titled 'Arting the Find, Finding the Art" which was about making found object art and recontextualizing objects to create meaning. My second course was with Maria Creytes called "Polished Primitive" which was a ceramics class in which we had to polish the pots by hand before we put them in the fire to be cured. And my final class was with Trina Cooper. It was supposed to be a class on Max MSP and Jitter but it ended up being a video installation class instead. It became my first exposure to Adobe After effects. Here is a picture of the rough story board and pictures of the final setup of the installation and of coarse the video itself, please excuse the terrible quality, I had to rip it off of myspace due to some data mishaps.

Metamorphosis

The final project to come out of this week long animation summer class was a class-wide metamorphosis project. We had to create an animation that flowed seamlessly from one persons project to the other. There are a few projects I can't post from this class, such as a ball bounce with a coin and some cutout animation, because we animated directly onto a lunchbox and I never got a copy of those projects.