Sunday, November 16, 2014

Week 8 Comments: I'm boring you with my frustrations edition

Well technically this is Week 9 as we skipped blogs for last week. But whatever, continuity and such you know? This past week we mainly worked on our 2d short storyboards and puppet animation excersices. There was a few things that disappointing me this week unfortunately. I guess I'll start with last week sense I wasn't able to talk about it until now. I was ripped to shreds in the 11 second club critique. There where a few problems with my animation as a supposed non-realistic tree and clouds that changed positions, and issues with other stuff too like two left hands at the end which I did not notice. And to make matters worth a certain someone in class had to make a point "Who cares if its funny right lololololol." And then a whole speech was said stating how that your main point was to not be funny and to have a good animation. I know that the speech wasn't directed at me for the most part but it kinda saddened me a bit. I want to make it clear that this is not my main priority at all, in case it seems like it.  I like to make my animations enjoyable and funny, but I always focus on making a good animation first. I thought I did a better job than I actually did to be short. But hopefully I can focus on making my 2d short as awesome as possible. But I'm not done crying about class yet there's more. I was mad at myself for not turning my 2d short storyboard and puppet animation on time. I have been falling behind in class recently and I'm going to fix this right away. I hate to fall behind in class at all, and especially in a class like this where I enjoy it so much.
But wow, there had to be some stuff that made me happy right? Well yes. Even though I turned my storyboard in late, I think it came out AMAZING. I had to cut a few things due to 1) Not having enough time to add them, and 2) Animation would be to long. But the final version if I can do it the way I want to, Will no doubt be the best thing I have ever created in the class. I can't wait to get started on it after this puppet animation stuff (which I kinda hate to be frank).
So yeah I look forward to starting my 2d short mostly, with the editing, voice acting and countless other steps to making it perfect. Now enough about me, on to the link of interest!


This one's a good one. At first I only watched the first few minutes and thought it was stupid. Oh it's a sitcom theme that goes on for a while, Hilarious. But then I watched the whole thing and I got to say, It's genius. The whole video plays with your expectations and completely does a 180 to where you thought the video was going. I did not expect the twist at the end at all and this is one of my favorite things Adult Swim has ever done ever. This is the type of stuff I'd love to make next year and I hope everyone can appreciate how much effort goes into stuff like this.
So that's It for now. Thanks for reading my longest blog post yet (at least it feels like it), Although it was kinda in order after a week off.

4 comments:

  1. Wow, nice video Geoff. Also stop being so hard on yourself you should be happy that we had to nit pick at your animation because it shows how good you did all the other stuff. I don't know thats just my opinion.

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  2. I also agree with Joe, Geoff. I enjoyed your animation as a whole but the only way we can all improve ourselves in animating is to get down to the nitty gritty of our exercises.

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  3. Thanks guys. Your right I was being a little hard on myself. It's just been a pretty frustrating week I guess.

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  4. I'm sorry about what I did. I didn't word it properly and I didn't mean for it to cause such fallout.

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