Self Portrait

The final for my main animation class was pretty fun and interesting. The assignment was to start out with a shot of our face and then we had to morph into our animation. Also at the end we all had to morph our animations with someone else in the class so they were all connected. And that concludes my first semester of animation classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Puberty

This was a metamorphosis assignment. The time frame for this project was a week and a half and this is what I came up with. All of this was hand drawn and shot directly onto a lunch box.

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and in Designing the Frame we had to take the classic 'Tell Tale Heart' and turn it into three frames using adobe illustrator and photoshop.

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.

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.