Week 4 Comments

A lot of hard work this week. We mostly had work days throughout the entire week to work on our animations like the bowling ball and balloon exercise. We also had to do a little work with FPS math to see how many frames exactly would be in a certain timed animation. What frustrated me most this week was the extensive amount of time that went into animating without key frames. But in a way, it was also what I enjoyed the most this week as even though its painstaking work..I still feel great when I finish something and I feel so glad I went through with it. Speaking of key frames, I'm excited to see how they work this week exactly. I want to see if they really do help with in betweening a lot, or is just a cheap way out and that doing it yourself would look better in result. Any way on to the link of interest.

This is a very fascinating video on the different techniques used by one of my favorite Filmmakers, Edgar Wright. The video shows how most comedy films today rely way to much on dialogue, and show that what is actually on screen like the characters, scenery, sound effects and even the way the camera moves can be funny on itself and also make for a much more interesting looking film. Just because a film is a comedy, doesn't mean it can't have awesome cinematography. Also warning, there is some swearing and not G rated content from the films in the video, but the video is so interesting and perfect for the class I hope everybody can just look past it. I also can't wait to use some of these techniques for the video class next year. Anyways still enjoying the class per usual, and I hope everyone enjoys my cartoons as it's very worth it to know people like the hard work you do.