University: Week 3

Week 5 is over now and I had my first assesment piece due last Monday. It was an oral breaking down a trailer to try and find meaning by explaining camera effects and such. Mine was Where The Wild Things Are and I think I did okay, I was a little muddled in the oral. No matter! My next assessment in Digital Media is to make a video of pretty much anything. We gotta take into account camera angles and junk so this is either gonna be really easy or really hard.

Alright, so pressing onto drawing matters; naked people. Honestly, life drawing was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was uncomfortable for about 30 seconds, then you realise you can't really not look otherwise you won't get the drawings done since they were only minute long poses. We did about three thousand million gestural drawings of this one person but I won't upload them all, I'll just upload what went into my PowerPoint (which is what the tutors see).

Basically, what the above is was when the model opened up an umbrella and we were meant to draw it in a kind of 'frame-by-frame' way, then arrange it our top seven drawings into a .gif. At first, we were encouraged to use this creme pastel/charcoal/whatever-it-was on the brown paper, but I found it all to be too... annoying and switched to charcoal. It was quite messy but earned a better result in the end. Good thing I took photos before I rolled it up! I was going to upload my favourite gestural drawings from that week but it all... yeah, no. They don't make much sense.

For homework, we had to do two exercises; draw ten people losing their umbrellas on an A4 sheet and break down two of six objects (either a cat, a horse, a tricycle, grapes, a fan or... something else) in for frames. I chose a cat and a tricycle. The cat was okay but the tricycle was atrocious.

And because you guys are all so lovely, I'll upload some of my crazy sketches that I did this week. Most of these were done either on the train or in class or when there wasn't any good TV to watch (speaking of TV, the second season of the North American version of Being Human started last week on Eleven. It's on Monday at 9:30pm so I suggest everyone to watch it because it's the best show ever. Go watch the first episode of season two on their website. Go buy the first season as well so you understand what's going on).

(sorry about the blue tint, I took photos in my room (since my scanner is crap))

One last thing; for our Animation Methodologies class, we are required to make a 1 minute stop frame animation. I rubber band'd my phone to a tripod, downloaded AnimatorDV and bought the Mobiola Web Camera App for my phone and created the following. It took about 45 minutes for 9 seconds of animation and the focus option on the phone kept pulling the image in and out (and I think the iPhone kept moving down on the tripod). Plus, I got lazy on the last frames. But other than that, it turned out quite nicely!

And one last plug; I'll be seeing the Ignatians Musical Society's Sweeney Todd on Friday night and I suggest everyone to go book tickets and see it also. My good friend Sam will be in the show as well, checks out his blog, yo.

Today's song; I Heard Ramona Sing - Frank Black