Class

So I am in my second week at VFS and I pretty much love all my classes. Everything we are doing right now is just the basics but it's still fun to learn.  I hope it's still fun once things start picking up. I feel like things are going to pick up real soon, but I'm looking forward to it.  The more stuff I have to do, the more I learn and the more cool things I will be able to produce.

The things that I will be showing you guys is just some simple animations.It's not very exciting stuff, but I think it's pretty cool.  This first one is from my 3D Animation class. It's a simple pendulum that loses momentum over time.





I also did the pendulum project in my Classical Animation class. This one is a little bit different because it never loses momentum and is always swinging back and forth (also the animation loops to give it that effect). I'm not sure if we will animate more frames to slow it down until it stops. The main point of this lesson is to learn timing. A lot of what we will be doing in my Classical Animation/2D animation class is learning about timing. The more we study 2D animation the better our animations in 3D will be. 2D teaches us about how to pace our drawings so that we can infuse our characters with life, This will make us better 3D animators because we will be able to use the same principles.





We also animated a ball moving back and forth with a hair attached to his head. This taught us about "secondary actions". Secondary actions are things that happen in reactions to something else. They are dependent on something else. For example the way a man's tie would sway when he is walking.





My favorite thing about the last two videos is that it makes me feel like an animator. You know, like when you watch those behind the scenes of Pixar movies (or other animated movies) and they show you their hand drawn (sometimes rough) animations? It makes me feel legit. Like I could be one of those guys. I know it;'s not much but this is just the beginning and I hope to do a lot more cool things.


Also, one final note. Went to Costco earlier today and I couldn't find corn tortillas. At all. Nor could I find canned beans! I was so mad. How the heck could they not have beans? Ruined my day.