So far...

Excited about the animation project. This is what I have so far... 53 frames and about 8 frames per second. Actually, this might be 10... I don't really remember :3

Lol

These are two videos that I LOVE that are similar to the photoshop animation project that we'll be working on in class. I'm hoping to do something like this. I'm all for humorous stuff.

Peep Show

    I attended the Peep Show Friday afternoon. It was full of peep puns and “peepisms”. It was rather amusing. Walking around the tables I noticed many similarly themed peep projects. Due to recent events, there were many Spitzer peep puns. Because of the season there were a few snow themed peep art pieces. Some pieces imitated artistic styles. Like cubism meets surrealism. One peep cut up and stuck back together, the other one partially burned and melted. There were peep reenactments of Hamlet and “Peep”ing Toms. There were jousting peeps and peeps parting seas. Peeps that made up a backbone and peeps on TV! Some of the peeps were singing as the Red Hot Chili Peepers. A great number of them had been baked, squashed, and mashed into bowls, pizzas and pies. There were fashion forward peeps strutting down Project Peepway and a box lined with massacred peeps. 

Overall it was a very interesting show. There were too many prizes and category's to keep track of though. I remember that the “Peep”les' Choice Award went to “Sweet Tooth” a stop animation about peeps attacking the guy who was about to eat them and Best in Show when to “Cece n'est pas une peep.” A play on a famous piece of art saying “This is not a pipe (or in this case, peep).” It was a picture of a peep with a strange vibration. I found it interesting the two peep pieces that won the highest awards were the two most technologically advanced. Makes you think, doesn't it? 

Animation

So I guess I'm a little scared about this animation project but at the same time excited. Animation is always a ton of work... but I'd love to create it. Hearing about this project the first thing that came to mind was Waking Life. An amazing movie about dreams and consciousness and all sorts of crazy stuff. Of course since the main character in the movie is always dreaming they needed some weird effects. The whole movie was photoshopped frame by frame, adding filters, random objects and cool designs. Here are some scenes: 

If you really wanna think, you gotta see this movie.

Aside from the great ideas I love the animation style... but sometimes I think it might also take away from the movie. It adds certain things, like the idea of being in a dream state, but it sometimes can distract you from the points they're trying to get across.

Either way... it's one of the most interesting movies I have ever seen.

I'm back!

Wow. So sorry I haven't posted much of anything lately. 

Two Thursdays ago I went to the ER with symptoms of Meningitis, Mono, and the Flu... never found out what it was (Doc thinks it's mono caused by a different and more rare type of virus). But I was there for 5 days, and then home recovering for a week and a half. I've got a bit of blogging to catch up to. 

Anyways, I wanted to share this fractal art. This guy is amazing. Nathan Smith. 

Desktop Variation III by ~nmsmith on deviantART

Inner Sanctum by ~nmsmith on deviantART

Fractal Space by ~nmsmith on deviantART

Someone Watches Over by ~nmsmith on deviantART

And from Wikipedia:

A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"^[1] a property called self-similarity.

Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. Fractal art is usually created indirectly with the assistance of a computer, iterating through three phases: setting parameters of appropriate fractal software, executing the possibly lengthy calculation and evaluating the product.