23/09/2011 Specialist pathway

Today the teacher was not available due to an illness, so instead of doing normal work i finished updating my blog, and continuing animation research, and did a bit of 3D. For the animation research i finished the 2D section of the research.

21/09/2011 Animation

For this lesson we begun our animation project, we are to create E-stings animation for the channel E4. We are using lightboxes for our 2D animation. I came up with several ideas for the 2D animation. We started the lesson getting used to the lightboxes, we did a simple 5 frame animation which lasted no longer than a second. Once we completed that task we looked at existing E-sting animations, gathering ideas a drawing and writing them down.

The lesson helped me get an idea for animation, and what we are doing over the coming weeks.  

Investigation, Reflection and Expression 19/09/2011

Today's lesson we got a brief run through on what we will be doing for the module, which is studying the matrix film, like the philosophy of the matrix, bullet time ect. But first i updated my blog, after that we watched about 15 minutes of the matrix. Throughout the time we watched the film, we discussed main points of the film, one major point i found was the the film was always tinted green while in the matrix, and most of the time there was some type of grid in the background,  for example there was always a real world item representing the grid.

In this screenshot, the tiles on the floor represent a grid, and there's always something similar in most scenes of the film. This another main point to the film, and it's very well hidden.

Week 1

Animation 14/09/2011
 In our first animation lesson we were introduced into the animation module (understanding the media 1) and we went through the handbook reading about the marking criteria and looked through the delivery timetable, and at what we will be doing over the next 13 weeks, and what subjects we will studying.

After going through the handbook we started researching into each area that we will be doing. First was 2D animation, i looked into the brief history of it, and then looked into how its done and which companies do it for profession. And i did this for each area we are looking into.

The most important thing I've found out was that the first form of animation was a (although there is conflicting evidence) Thaumatrope, a device that used the theory of 'persistence of vision'.  This is significant to me because it gives the knowledge of the start of animation, and i can compare modern animation with the very start basically comparing back.  


Specialist pathway 16/09/2011
In this lesson we were given an brief description of what we are doing for the module. And then we discussed what we were doing in the lesson. We read through a list of 106 buildings and we were to pick on building to build in Autodesk Maya, there was several that liked, for example the HSBC building and falling water, but i decided to pick the Sydney Opera House, i got the the blueprints for it and took them into Autodesk Maya and when looking at the blueprints i realized how complicated it was, then using a EP curve i extruded the blueprints up.


The lesson help with refreshing my mind on how to use Autodesk Maya since i haven't used it much over the summer.