Thursday, 31 May 2012

My Assessment #3 post


What I have learnt so far... 
Well I now know how to use html and css, It was ok and pretty enjoyable once I figured out how to use all the code to adapt to particular personal tastes on my website. For my delicious I have four stacks (1 MPI104 related and three personal). I haven't really seen the point of delicious but I suppose it has its uses. For my flikr I have uploaded a number of people and favourite a few photos, I have found it very useful to upload videos and photos of my animation to post on the forum, the only drawback being that we can only upload two video's a month. 
Bloger has been very useful and a pretty enjoyable experience. I have liked the process of changing and adapting my blog and viewing posts that others have made, in particular, Aidan's post on the joy of beards and Liam Neeson. 
Using the html code was actually not as bad as I originally suspected, using the code at first was both daunting and grinding but towards the end once I got used to the jargon and discovering new ways to use the code to do specific things like align images and text in different ways using html was actually ok. Css seemed pretty weird and inconvenient but once I created multiple pages It was fine
We have learnt about rss feeds, websites and maintaining an Internet presence and has been relatively enjoyable through both semesters. 

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

My html website (MPI104)


My html website consists of 4 pages. These pages include a 'gallery', an 'inspirational animators' page, a 'home' page and an 'about me' page outlining what I am doing at the moment and briefly outlines some of my interests. I have changed my fonts to suit my preferences and the colours accordingly.
The Home page consists of a menu bar with links to my about me page, gallery, the home page (to easily refresh the site) and to the master blog. Bellow contains a web counter for the page views and a quick little intro for people viewing the site. Below this is an 'iframe' window of my blog. Following this is a quick post about the content of what can be found on the site and some button links so that you can contact me in regards to my website via email, view my flikr, blog, and delicious
The gallery consists of another menu bar so that you can navigate to and from the home page and the about me page, The rest of the page includes images from what I am currently working on and two videos: my walk cycle and my animatic for my 1 min animation
The about me page has a basic layout with some more navigation links back to the gallery and home page. It also contains a photo of myself. The inspirational animators page is a list of three of my favorite animators and a brief blurb about each.
From this assessment I have learned how to use html and css to a relatively competent  level, once I got better at the jargon of it I started to find ways to overcome my problems (and create new ones :P) more easily. The thing I am most proud of is inserting buttons into my website home page, as it took me quite a while to figure and I think I achieved what I set out to do.


Sunday, 13 May 2012

Big Buck Bunny





An animated short film about a Big Buck Bunny in HD

(c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

MLP:FIM Break down of a walk cycle

This is a little bit unconventional, especially considering the shows target demographic. However, this is still some of the best flash animation I've seen and this video clearly explains why. if you're interested in animating any sort of character to a musical number, I would highly recommend watching this. The guy in the video knows what he's talking about and also uses relevant parts from 'Richard Williams: The animator's survival kit' to demonstrate his points.

Breaking Down a Walk Cycle - My Little Pony: FiM Animation Analysis

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Going to the store...


I didn't pick this because it's brilliantly animated. I picked it because this person has made the most of those random mistakes that arise from trying to animate with a broken rig. As always, enjoy

Watch: Going to the store

Thursday, 5 April 2012

MPI104


MPI104 has been an interesting subject thus far. We have learnt how to create a web presence and how to utilize it. We started this by creating a Gmail account (regardless of whether or not we had one already) for submitting our assignment and using it to create other accounts on pages such as delicious, flikr and blogger. I have enjoyed this subject so far as it has really helped me with my other subjects especially the VFX101 forum as we are frequently required to upload our work onto different topics. I was skeptical about creating a blogger account at first as I wasn’t entirely sure on how relevant this would be, however, towards the end I have started to like the idea of updating a blog whether it be just a random collection of thoughts or a themed blog. In my case it is a themed blog on presenting an easily accessible site to view (in my opinion) some of the best short films the animation industry has to offer. It is still early days and I am sure I will continue to add to it.
Flikr proved to be an invaluable resource. Although we have only been shown the fundamentals of what it can be used for, I still use it frequently not only in MPI104 but in my other subjects as well. It is interesting to look through all the images people have uploaded and you can easily find anything you are interested in.
Delicious, although I personally feel is a bit outdated, has also been quite useful in particular this subject. It has all the links and urls to web addresses I am both interested in and ones I need to pass my subjects. It is convenient to be able to quickly access other people’s blogs to check up on their progress.
I have so far made 10 posts on my Blogger* most being links to short films I feel need to be viewed by as many people as possible, have changed its aesthetic look to be more personal, I have posted on other people’s blogs*. In Delicious I have book marked 8 pages three of mine being of personal interest mainly due to their layout, how useful they can be or just how entertaining how entertaining*. On Flikr I have uploaded three images and a video of my completed and submitted walk cycle*, links to some of my favorite pictures and my Flikr stream will be provided below.

Overall, I have enjoyed this subject and thanks to my lecturer Matt B, am no longer as web illiterate as I used to be J



Interesting blogger posts: 

Delicious:

Flikr:  

Flikr stream




Flikr is pretty swuave, just uploaded the final final product of my walk cycle that I submitted

My walk cycle

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

This is a fantastic animated short. Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

... Finally

It's done. the walk cycle is complete. Here's a link if you're interested.

Hand drawn walk cycle

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

One step at a time...

Just some key frames of my handrawn walkcycle. at this stage it's still very much a work in progress but feel free to check it out.

View frames

What a walk cycle should actually look like

Monday, 2 April 2012

3D giants: Pixar


It's safe to say that when it comes to 3d animation,  Pixar consistently produces films of quality above and beyond that of almost any other studio. Their short-films are no exception. Burn.E is among one of my favourite animated short films and it is up there because of Pixar's inventive and effective execution of a story almost completely pantomime. Anyway, enjoy

Watch Burn.E