This is for those of you who have not seen it. This is my buddy Tyson's senior project that we spent 14 months working on. Stay tuned for another glorious stopmo project with the same crew. But this time it will be my friend Drayson's senior project.
So this a music video my Motion Graphics class made for "Nonagon." The full description is on the vimeo page so I won't go into details.
My portion of this video is between 2:57 - 3:12
I hope you enjoy it
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hey folks,
so I've been pretty steadfast at work on some projects. I'm enjoying Motion Graphics quite well. And I would like to share. Everything is a work in progress but I have no idea when I'll have time to go back and actually fix them up.
This piece above was my "shape layer" assignment. We had to use shape layers in after effects to portray the seasons. It could have been as real or abstract as I wanted, but I went with this.
All of my motion graphics so far have been done in After Effects. I will be posting more soon. I will be learning Cinema 4D soon, so I will have 3D motion graphics as well.
My skills as an illustrator are still mediocre. They are ever improving, but some things are much more tricky to get the hang of. My proportions are good. There isn't much improvement I need to be a decent illustrator in terms of proportions. I am really starting to understand what to exaggerate when drawing and sketching for animation. But my line quality still licks the sweat off the balls of the suck squirrel. Fortunately, my figure drawing class is really making me focus on this. It also makes me really focus on composition and placement. But this is all with charcoal. Pencil or pen & ink? Who knows. I'm OK with a pencil, pen I still need work on.
In Class Drawings
Rushed the rendering
Needs more work on foreshortening
Drapery sucks on small testes
Too dark in back
Didn't finish the hands
The shading on the face was a bad idea
The drapery shading is awful
Ugh
That sure is a small head
The inner contours are total chicken scratch crap
So I know what I need to work on improving. I have progressed very much in the last 2 years. So in another 2 years all be more than decent.
I am taking an astronomy class this semester and might I say how awesome it is.
The teacher is so into it and it rubs off onto the students, especially me.
At the end of class I am always so jazzed - which is unfortunate because it ends at 9:50 pm and I have to wake up early the next morning for my 8:30 class but can't get to sleep til 2:00 am because I'm so pumped.
But the reason for this post is to express to people my new revelation.
While discussing stars and galaxies my brain momentarily comprehended the grandness of the universe. My brain only does this once a month or so. It is such an awesome and humbling experience. For just a few seconds I am grasping the insignificance of our whole galaxy let alone our solar system or planet thus lives.
I call this brief phenomenon a Cognitive Orgasm or Brain Orgasm. I call it this because as I said it only lasts a couple of seconds and it takes some build up to get to it. I have to mull over the stars for some time before the "point of no return" if you will when it is inevitable that I will have one. The other reason I call it this is because over some time I build up a lot of stress and anxiety over trivial matters, and then once I have a brain orgasm, I realize how lame it is for me to be tense. And all at once my worries melt away. It is a wonderful feeling.
It only happens to me when I'm thinking about astronomy or religion. I encourage the lot of you to try and achieve one of these orgasms. I have never heard anyone talk about anything like this which (naturally) makes me feel like I'm the only one.
