Sophomore First Semester Final: "?"

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would love to scan this in, add to it, and color it...and it will happen.

Progress 1

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Progress of my sophomore 1st semester Final.

Elements

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Elements, hopefully you can tell what they are!! :)
Water was hard...

Metamorphosis Remix

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Walk Cycle With Character

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Walking Heavy

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Walking Female

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Walking Male

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Weight: Three Objects

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Incremental #2

Bouncing Ball

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The Bouncing Ball assignment.

Ball Under Layer

These are my under layers for the ball bouncing animation exercise.  I put the environment on the bottom later, my first ball bounce sequence on the next layer, and then the second sequence last (I did this on two layers because the ball leaves the screen briefly and then returns).  I have had to redo this process so many times now, but it's so much better after all the trial and error...but I still need to revise before the animation is complete.    :)

Incremental #1

Last class we did our first incremental life drawing session.  It was a new experience and was very useful.  It definitely helps in figuring out how the body looks in certain poses and seeing how the body transitions in a short moment that people usually wouldn't think was complicated.     I pretty much enjoyed it overall and I became a bit more aware of the things I need to work on.

Pendulum

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2nd animation assignment.  A pendulum!

Incremental Sample #1

So far, my favorite incremental drawing in my morgue book.  I have been wanting to use this transformation for a story idea I came up with to be animated.  Someday...when I'm awesome.  

#3 Metamorphosis

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The first KCAI Animation animated assignment. :)


This was KCAI sophomore animation's 3rd part of our first assignment. We had to combine our flip-books with a metamorphosis in between them. It was a lot of fun once I got going on the metamorphosis. The most difficult/frustrating thing about it though was coming up with ideas for changing the real life scenes into a metamorphosis. I am the type of person who really needs a plan, so I ended up coming up with a little idea before starting and using that for the first part of the metamorphosis. After that was completed though, it became much easier to transition to more abstract things (the head opening up, the creature coming out and everything getting stretched and pulled off the page turning into the transition - from nonsense to my favorite place in KC). The most fun about this project was getting into the rhythm of producing frames one after the other, then of course seeing the "final" product (will probably add more frames in between these for a slower smoother result).
Although I did try to do a large number of frames to make this as long as possible (I wanted to allow people to actually see what was going on) I learned that that was still too little amount of frames (I ended up with 320 frames total). So even though I thought I was doing small changes in frames, I need to do smaller increments still.
Anyway, overall, I really did enjoy this project.

#2

This is my favorite place in Kansas City.  The fountain at the Plaza.  It's so great.  It is so inspiring to me and I can't get enough of it.  I always wonder how long it took to make these sculptures and I can't believe how talented this artist was.  The sculptures are huge and amazing with so much detail, I could look at it for hours.  

#1

My favorite place growing up is probably my side porch and yard.  It is a really big yard and me and my siblings used to play in it a lot. There used to be a swing on the big tree on the left, which was a lot of fun and was well used.  As I was growing up and still, if I just need to get away from everything I can just walk out the door and sit on the porch and I can be alone.  But besides that I loved this yard because of all the tree and plants. There was this great Red Maple to the right, which is gone now, and a cool little tree with little pink flowers on the right too by the driveway, and then all the flowers...