Dialogue Animation

For this I had another videos dialogue in mind but when I wasn't able to get ahold of it I switched to another. However I'm not all unhappy with what I decided to use in the end. I was actually rather excited to animate it. Though in that since the clip was so long I ran out of time and I was barely able to animate any of it. I am happy with the motion I was able to capture. I've found that it gets a little easier the more you draw it.

After Affects Music Kinetic Typography

I was actually really looking forward to this project. I've always enjoyed imagining up music videos for my favorite songs. Sadly I lost a lot of time to do this but in the end I was able to do a good bit of what i wanted to do. Using Won't Let Go by Konac, I drew up a few things and used some After Affects shapes to make my video.

Bouncing Ball in After Affects

In doing this project I found that using after effects made it surprisingly easy. I did come across a few difficulties but in the end I found that I was able to do what I wanted to do relatively easy. Although I do wish that I had added more considering what you can do with After Affects.

Pumpkin Weight

Again I find myself running out of time in making this. I wasn't able to add much detail but I was able to get the motion to a point where I was happy with it. Then I had to work on the pumpkin, this is when I figured out that I should have drawn it with the body. Luckily I did get the pumpkin too look like a solid object rather then a morphing one.

Walk Cycle

      When I started on this project I had been hoping to do a lot but as time went on I realized just how time consuming drawing all the frames is. I also had a lot of trouble making sure that everything stayed the same size all throughout the walkcycle. Luckily I was able to get a good structure to work off of and then I was able to add frames that made the animation itself look smoother and more natural. 

Alien Rotoscope

    For the rotoscope project I wanted to use a scene from one of my favorite movies and considering the approaching spooky season I decided that Alien was perfect for it.  I chose one of its most famous scenes and got started.

    At first I was gonna do more but when I found out how time consuming it was I settled on a smaller chunk of the scene. I decided to focus on more of the prominent characters rather then the ones in the back. In the end I was quite happy with what I was able to rotoscope.

Spooky Stop motion

Now in the end I wasn't totally pleased with this one but I am somewhat happy that it went the way I was hoping. For this project I designed a charterer and wanted to have him moving around before popping up for a surprise. I was able to do this, though some motions in it didn't look the way I wanted them too.

However I was still able to get him to move around.

I had drawn quite a few parts so I could get a number of poses. This did make it harder but at the same time it was nice to have the freedom to contort the figure.

Bouncing Egg Stop Motion

I have a love for dragons and cute things so for the bouncing ball animation I decided to make a bouncing egg that breaks open.

I drew the egg and then drew the lines on it when it was hitting the ground. For the dragon I drew about four posses.

Originally the dragon was gonna be in more pieces so I could make each pose as the film went on but I felt this was a bit to difficult to do. So I made the for poses that I felt would convey the motion I wanted to animate.

Hello

Introduction

    Hello my name is Celeste and I'm probably the most not like a twenty year old twenty year old that you will ever meet. I'm distracted by anything that's colorful and I mostly just watch cartoons.

    Speaking of which some of my favorites have got to be Jojo and My Hero Academia. Though outside of animated things my favorite things are the movies Alien and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Anything with monsters and fantasy will usually interest me. Those are actually what I usually draw if i'm not drawing indulgent fan art.

    As for what my life is like, honestly its just a mess. I just moved down, which would be the fifth time I've moved during my twenty years of existence. At home my family has seven cats, mine being an orange haired one called Bunny. One day he will be mine. In the mean time though I just live here petless, trying to draw and do an assortment of other things.

What I Expect

    Now what I expect to learn in this class is how to animate things that I've come up with or things I am asked to come up with if someone was ever to hire me for such a job. Going into further detail I assume we are going to learn about the process that is making animation and about the programs that we use for it. I'm also hoping that we'll learn the best way to animate motion so that we can animate something so that it look fluid and natural or utterly insane, if that's possible.

     To close this off I will say I am excited to get started on some projects and post them on here. Also here's a picture of my cat.