maanantai 31. lokakuuta 2011
In which there is relevant animation content
This is the lipsync task for last month, or more like for the last two weeks of last month. I'm probably not going to work on this any more since the official deadline for submissions is/was today and we need to start working on this month's voice track tomorrow. I'd really like to try animating in the style of Adventure Time but since I don't know anything about the track I can't really make any decisions yet. Also I don't know if I should start training myself in paper animation since that is the big thing here... And the music video is going to be animated on paper... it is sort of terrifying.
Today we had storyboarding in the morning and caricature drawing in the afternoon. I chose Alan Rickman asdföakll I can't draw
I just
Well, on the sixth try I actually got something out that faintly did resemble Mr Rickman but then I only had the head and it looked like the type of caricatures you get in newspapers and not like an animated caricature and I kind of was supposed to have the body too and people thought it was someone from Star Trek. >::::P For next week we need to draw a proper version of a caricature and sculpt a 3D model as well. Bleugh.
Even with the clocks turned back it's finally getting darker here. The temperatures feel like they're a month late and with no snow to look forward to I don't know how I'll handle the dark until Christmas. On the other hand that's the exact same thing you get in Finland so I guess I'm just going to be fine, plus it has been a lot dryer than one might imagine, I must have some sort of a freak power that any foreign country I got to gets freaky weather for the first weeks I spend there, and then that freaky weather messes up the whole rest of the year. That is clearly why it's still so warm.
Oh! and about last weekend: I don't really know if anyone comes here from somewhere else than facebook, but I kind of like flaunting certain pictures around. Like this one, which inefficiently documents my purchases from last Saturday's CMC Expo, which, in essence, was what we in Finland would call a dealers' room. In a great big hall.
I bought All three volumes of the lovely Hemlock, Stone Monkey (just for the colours), Sea volume 1 (on hindsight I think I should have taken them all), Omnipathy, a quirky short comic, and a tote from, uhh, the people who make things like Leopards and Leotards.
I find myself wishing I'd have time to draw my own things. Like... Homestuck fanart.
Tunnisteet:
animation,
extras,
I mean actual animation,
life,
school
perjantai 28. lokakuuta 2011
Pepsi problem
Whoops!
This is the first part of the rotoscoping task, e.g. the one I actually finished. The idea could have been better but... yeah. Rotoscoping. I haven't made much progress with the other part (it was about boats) now since it became less mandatory. I have trouble knowing when our teacher is pleased vs. not pleased with something, but he did say it might seem like Pepsi is a litter problem. Well. I totally meant it that way. >::::/ In other news, I'm going to London MCM Expo tomorrow! I have the best classmates. Which reminds me I should probably go and print that ticket right now, before I forget. And then animate some more jellyfish for lipsync. Have a good weekend, everyone!
This is the first part of the rotoscoping task, e.g. the one I actually finished. The idea could have been better but... yeah. Rotoscoping. I haven't made much progress with the other part (it was about boats) now since it became less mandatory. I have trouble knowing when our teacher is pleased vs. not pleased with something, but he did say it might seem like Pepsi is a litter problem. Well. I totally meant it that way. >::::/ In other news, I'm going to London MCM Expo tomorrow! I have the best classmates. Which reminds me I should probably go and print that ticket right now, before I forget. And then animate some more jellyfish for lipsync. Have a good weekend, everyone!
keskiviikko 19. lokakuuta 2011
Cough cough
I have a smidgeon of a time here and writing seemed like a better idea than sleeping. Also sharing a picture or maybe two.
I think I finally caught the cough that has been pestering my room mates. Niiice,
We're currently doing rotoscoping. The actual point of it, I guess, was to learn to use masking in After Effects, but I am completely skipping that part and just rotoing in PS. Such a rebel here, yeah, you lookin at a man making his own path! The brief we got doesn't really incorporate vector rotoscoping well, as in trying to market pepsi with a certain aesthetic to preschoolers and the elderly. Amazing. It's kind of brainless, so much that I can't seem to be able to concentrate on it properly. Might also be the exhaustion left over from last week that has leaked over to this week in the form of short nights. I really despise having to sleep less than 7 hours and last night was the third in a row. I know I have to rise tomorrow relatively early to go swimming again and then to animate until late at night so I can't even sleep in, I just have to sleep enough.
We have so much to do. It's all interesting but there's just so much of it. I kind of like doing dope sheets for lip sync.
This was Southampton when I arrived a month ago:
Now it's all brown orangey
and stair-y
and just
This is what is it. All the time. Oh the good old days when we had proper sun and proper temperatures.
I think I finally caught the cough that has been pestering my room mates. Niiice,
We're currently doing rotoscoping. The actual point of it, I guess, was to learn to use masking in After Effects, but I am completely skipping that part and just rotoing in PS. Such a rebel here, yeah, you lookin at a man making his own path! The brief we got doesn't really incorporate vector rotoscoping well, as in trying to market pepsi with a certain aesthetic to preschoolers and the elderly. Amazing. It's kind of brainless, so much that I can't seem to be able to concentrate on it properly. Might also be the exhaustion left over from last week that has leaked over to this week in the form of short nights. I really despise having to sleep less than 7 hours and last night was the third in a row. I know I have to rise tomorrow relatively early to go swimming again and then to animate until late at night so I can't even sleep in, I just have to sleep enough.
We have so much to do. It's all interesting but there's just so much of it. I kind of like doing dope sheets for lip sync.
This was Southampton when I arrived a month ago:
This is what is it. All the time. Oh the good old days when we had proper sun and proper temperatures.
sunnuntai 16. lokakuuta 2011
Gggghhh
You may gaze upon the humble author now with scorning looks.
I am so not in touch with youtube and it's whys and hows. For example, why is the quality shit? I howl into the night and my howl goes unheard.
For references sake, this has 130 or so frames all on twos. I put all the time I had this week into animating this... and still it looks like it does. It's all Photoshop now except that because I am a fool I composed the actual video on Flash, good program, best friend. Photoshop only gets a timeline function in the CS5 version so I worked with the weird frame system. And sucked. But you can only suck so long in a given thing before you have to stop sucking!
I literally finished it right before the clock turned 12PM in this horrible Sunday night. Didn't get the lipsync task done... but oh well. I'll take a look at the program later.
Herkkä hetki from Anayte Delahay on Vimeo.
I am so not in touch with youtube and it's whys and hows. For example, why is the quality shit? I howl into the night and my howl goes unheard.
For references sake, this has 130 or so frames all on twos. I put all the time I had this week into animating this... and still it looks like it does. It's all Photoshop now except that because I am a fool I composed the actual video on Flash, good program, best friend. Photoshop only gets a timeline function in the CS5 version so I worked with the weird frame system. And sucked. But you can only suck so long in a given thing before you have to stop sucking!
I literally finished it right before the clock turned 12PM in this horrible Sunday night. Didn't get the lipsync task done... but oh well. I'll take a look at the program later.
Tunnisteet:
animation,
I mean actual animation,
internet woes,
school
lauantai 15. lokakuuta 2011
You know what would be nice?
It would be nice if I didn't take up huge goals and start working on them one day, thinking I could use all week for them and planning accordingly, and then the next day get more work for the same deadline. That would be nice. I either need to learn to animate faster or to animate less. :/ Previous is preferable.
I have been putting all my free time into the most recent animation task we got, hilariously going by our school's motto "it can be anything". The requirement was that it needs to be one shot and it needs to be "finished".
I will show them. I will show them all. I got at least 110 frames at this point. It's all shit but it is fabulous learning shit.
But first I may fail handing in my lip sync task on Monday.
Observations:
Crows are black.
Squirrels are grey.
Nobody reads Homestuck
and anime is gay.
Actually I think quite many people would willingly watch good anime if given the chance. I got major spoiled about Naruto the other day. I also finally have both decent chocolate and decent tea in the house, life is nearing perfect from 0,1% all the way to 10%.
I have been putting all my free time into the most recent animation task we got, hilariously going by our school's motto "it can be anything". The requirement was that it needs to be one shot and it needs to be "finished".
I will show them. I will show them all. I got at least 110 frames at this point. It's all shit but it is fabulous learning shit.
But first I may fail handing in my lip sync task on Monday.
Observations:
Crows are black.
Squirrels are grey.
Nobody reads Homestuck
and anime is gay.
Actually I think quite many people would willingly watch good anime if given the chance. I got major spoiled about Naruto the other day. I also finally have both decent chocolate and decent tea in the house, life is nearing perfect from 0,1% all the way to 10%.
tiistai 11. lokakuuta 2011
Our first fight
I had my first exchange crisis over the weekend! Yaaaay. I had just done my showreel on Friday and then had to work on pitch pictures and I felt completely incompetent. I just couldn't communicate what I wanted and I was the shittiest animator on earth and everyone else was so much more laborious and I might have been a tiny bit homesick too. But maybe that was more about having someone to physically hold on to rather than actually being home, because mostly things have been considerably easy here. I also cried in front of people I really didn't know that well (that seems to be my default strategy in a crisis) and I feel I confused them when the crying took so long to stop. I am already learning new things about myself, like that I am a crybaby! Also that I like to throw fits. I would like to think they make me feel better faster in the end but really I'm not even sure about that.
Anyway, I'm okay now, plunged myself into new stupid things to do, like animating in Photoshop - what sort of an idiot came up with that?? I need to have this finished by next Monday and I am so bad and it is so slow and AAAAAAAAAAAAAARARARGRRGH!! This taught me that despite what I previously may have thought I am actually pretty well off with Flash because goddamn if this isn't the worst animation I've ever done. D: I will show you when it's ready and then you may cry with me.
I think my new swimming hobby might be at a crucial role in keeping me alert enough to do animation for nine hours a day. This is the first time in my life I've ever paid for being able to exercise and... it's okay. Today I came home super tired, maybe because I didn't go to the family pool afterwards like usually to get my water massage (???), but usually it's been - dare I even say it - ...refreshing? Maybe all the exercise propaganda is just getting under my skin. Anyway, for some reason I always manage to buy really stupid things in the store after swimming. Today I bought:
Anyway, I'm okay now, plunged myself into new stupid things to do, like animating in Photoshop - what sort of an idiot came up with that?? I need to have this finished by next Monday and I am so bad and it is so slow and AAAAAAAAAAAAAARARARGRRGH!! This taught me that despite what I previously may have thought I am actually pretty well off with Flash because goddamn if this isn't the worst animation I've ever done. D: I will show you when it's ready and then you may cry with me.
I think my new swimming hobby might be at a crucial role in keeping me alert enough to do animation for nine hours a day. This is the first time in my life I've ever paid for being able to exercise and... it's okay. Today I came home super tired, maybe because I didn't go to the family pool afterwards like usually to get my water massage (???), but usually it's been - dare I even say it - ...refreshing? Maybe all the exercise propaganda is just getting under my skin. Anyway, for some reason I always manage to buy really stupid things in the store after swimming. Today I bought:
dried fruit in fancy package x 2
scone x 2
cornish pasty x 2
I have to say I prefer lihapiirakka to that huge pasty thing. It was too big. There was too much... not meat. Taste was bland. I guess this was to be expected.
After this short but crucial update I am so ready to go to bed. Tomorrow: school from 9 to 6, then more animating. Goodnight!
torstai 6. lokakuuta 2011
This is my 18th day in Southampton, England
...and only now I could find the coordination in me to put together a stupid blog. And even now I should be doing something completely different, namely animating my name and a surprised boy and changing Flash movies into .movs or so I heard. But I'm not. Because.
This week has been my first with real lessons. The first two went by trying to figure out how to buy food and how to walk to school and how to survive in the bureaucracy jungle that Southampton Solent University. This week has been about getting my first homework, despairing over how good everyone else probably is and trying to make some friends. In the course of the few months I will be spending here I hope to be able to write about the easy things and the hard things so that maybe next year's exchange students might know how to do stuff better and also so that I will remember what there is to enjoy about this whole huge thing that is trying to turn me into a different person altogether and wow. I've done a lot of new things while being here. Like gone to a pub. Shocking! More about all the things later, I need to start walking to get to Rock Band this evening!
This week has been my first with real lessons. The first two went by trying to figure out how to buy food and how to walk to school and how to survive in the bureaucracy jungle that Southampton Solent University. This week has been about getting my first homework, despairing over how good everyone else probably is and trying to make some friends. In the course of the few months I will be spending here I hope to be able to write about the easy things and the hard things so that maybe next year's exchange students might know how to do stuff better and also so that I will remember what there is to enjoy about this whole huge thing that is trying to turn me into a different person altogether and wow. I've done a lot of new things while being here. Like gone to a pub. Shocking! More about all the things later, I need to start walking to get to Rock Band this evening!
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