What I did instead of other things

So this is what I did in class today, since I finished my final project already anyways in that class. I took the final to another level and put it to music.
However it's glitch music so most people might not like it. Actually it's a maxdata computer booting up but it works as music.


Music:

Boot on Maxdata (Valentina Vuksic) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Puppet Animation for Motion Graphics

DM 340 Motion Graphics
Puppet Animation
Images from online 
textures from Lost and Taken
idea from L.M. Montgomery's The Story Girl

Trailer Spoof

Trailer for Grave Encounters
Using After Effects I added myself as a ghost to the cast.

Motion Graphics!!!

I'm in an Aftereffects class right now and am loving it currently we are working on puppet animations.
Our last project was a logomation.
I got Mercedes Benz for it.


The next one I'm doing an adaptation from a short story in the Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery.
It's the story of the Orchard Ghost.
Here is a newspaper I made for it.
I used a texture from Lost and Taken a vintage newspaper and Photoshop to make it.

So more will come soon!

Back to School

So the school year is starting and It's my Junior Year! Guess what that means. JUNIOR PROJECT!!!! anyways we had pitches on the first day of class which I pitched a story called Lydia. This was not picked which I'm actually kinda glad cause I was nervous about being a in charge of a story my first time out.

Here's some story beats from the pitch

And a little concept design

I will however be working on a project which was pitched as lifeless and is going to be a stop motion but that all I'm going to tell about it. I am on one of the two person teams with Mike Ackerman, who is an fabulous animator, so the final product should be pretty good. 

My teacher does want me to go back to my pitch for my senior year but with a more refined story.

So here's to the new school year, may it have lots of great animations.

And Good Luck to everyone else as they start their school year.

Finals Finally

I finally have some ample internet time and am putting up my finals

This first one is why hand drawn is not my strong suit. Anyways it's an audio clip from drop dead gorgeous. This was done for my Toon Boom final. 

Next is my 3D animation 2 class final. It was done as a professional workflow as a group. My class mates and I worked on a scene from seinfield with free character rigs. I had two scenes from it.

This one is my stop-motion final, in which we had a screen test of our self portrait puppets.

South Bend, Indiana

This last week I was on a mission trip in South Bend. This is my 4th year of going in the past 5 years. It's amazing to see how much the town has changed. Last year i didn't go and in that time it seemed to become a meaner harsher town. Of course this could be that my "lenses" had broken as the movie Waltz with Bazir explains. I could have been just seeing the world in my own happy way and not paying attention to the bad things in the world. Anyways, this mission trip has always had a major impact on my life and has shaped me greatly. This time around it broke my heart to think this will be probably the last time I will be there. The last time I will be able to see these kids, some of whom I remember from the first time I went. During the demonstration about hope at the vbs held by prairie camp I came to a realization. The balloons that the kids were releasing really were a true representation of our hopes and dreams. So of those kids will have what they wrote down come true and they will soar high just as their balloons did. Others will get hung up on the first branch in their way what ever it my be (drugs, alcohol, or what ever can destroy their goals). Some of those kids will break free from what is ever blocking them to excel and continue on their way, but even then they could run into something else that prevents them. The point is, our hopes and dreams can be lost and changed very easily. It can hurt to think about all those kids who may seem to have no future, but as prairie camp said, "Hope is knowing that no matter who you are, no matter where you are, God loves you and is with you". I truly feel compassion and love for these kids who it seems their own families don't feel that way about them. All I can do now is pray for them to have a brighter tomorrow and maybe someday I will run into them again.
Good bye and Best of luck Keller Park community and maybe someday our paths will cross again.