Week 2 Comments

If you like colors then you would have loved this week in Digital Media. This week we went over all about colors and how to make them look nice in different ways. We also went over the principles of animation such as squash and stretch, anticipation, staging and many more. What frustrated me mostly this week was trying to organize the file that we had to work with for the color project. The file was really weirdly set up as there was no layers for the different characters and background elements. I thought it would be a great idea to copy and paste all the elements to organize my work flow so I could grab as I please from the different elements that I needed. But that turned out to be a colossal waste of time as it was much easier just to copy and paste the elements and put them on their own layers as I went along, rather then have it set up before hand. Also I was pretty mad at one of my character poses being censored as apparently sitting on a toilet is a little to edgy for Digital Media. What I enjoyed this week was watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and writing down all the principles of animation it showed. I think that it is a very underrated movie that I don't get the hate it gets. It has great animation and is really funny throughout. It was a great choice for showing the class all the different aspects of animation. Now on to the link of interest.

This is a video by one of my friend's dad that made me almost pee myself. Seriously. It uses a cool VFX trick that I bet none of you can figure out. We will probably do stuff like this next year I'm guessing so I thought it was good for this weeks link of interest. Well that's all for this week. I'm still enjoying the class a lot and hopefully my binder wont be temple of doom by the next notebook check.