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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Word Exercise
This is an experiment in Photoshop using words and gestalt principles to explain the way a word is used and what it means without a definition. I used the words “Compression” and “Disruption”. For the following one, “Compression”, I was … Continue reading
Typeface Gradients
These are my typeface gradients that I made in Computer Animation 1. We were to use things like tracking and line leading and different type faces to create a gradient from lightest to darkest. This gradient below was made … Continue reading
Final Journal for Survey of Animation
The reading this week was extremely rough. It didn’t make my brain “hurt” or anything similar, as I was able to understand it decently well enough, but it did make me question the sanity of the writer. Academic writing has … Continue reading
Journal 6 for Survey of Animation
The world of animation is changing, and has been for quite some time. Since the late 1970s people have been using computers to assist in animation, along with technologies of the time. Adaptation has been an absolute necessity to stay … Continue reading
Journal 5 for Survey of Animation
After the 1950s, animation changed drastically. Television had become more popular and prevalent in people’s homes, and animation found a new home on TV instead of purely in cinemas due to the decline of them being shown. It had to … Continue reading
Journal 4 for Survey of Animation
Asian animation, lately it seems, only is ever considered “anime” and nothing else. However, it really has had a more detailed history and shouldn’t all be considered “anime” when quite a lot of it isn’t. Astro Boy was the first … Continue reading
Journal 3 for Survey of Animation
Asian animation started off very roughly. Only four people really represented China’s animation abilities. During the birth of Chinese animation, there were only a select few places they could physically work in due to limitations and wars. Shanghai was the … Continue reading
Journal 2 for Survey of Animation
Animation used to be a sort of secret among artists. New and talented artists were looked upon with a twinge of envy and were discouraged from entering the field so the older artists would not be forced out. Getting … Continue reading
Journal 1 For Survey of Animation
Proto cinema is essentially a very early form of cinematic entertainment, like what is in the Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The Cave is the earliest found cave dweller art and it simulates motion with the way things are drawn. Horses … Continue reading
Survey of Animation Stop Motion
For Survey of Animation, we had to create a 20-45 second long stop motion animation that took inspiration from one of the animations we watched in class. My inspiration came from Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, one of the first animators. He tended … Continue reading
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