Week 2 A

This class we went over the line videos, and got feedback from peers. Some of the feedback I received was,

• That it represented Cassidy when she eats Doritos
• That my timing was good
• The swirls were more effective than the squares. 
• That I created consistant lines. 

Overall considering that my emotion was elated I feel like I represented it pretty well. Everyone was able to guess what it was  very quick. I think that one thing that helped me was the frame rate being so quick. It really helped demonstrate the excitement that elated has with it.

My Dream
The time was about 10 am the scene took place in a blue bedroom with a slight bit of sunlight peeking in through the navy blackout curtains. Jaden Smith ran out of the room in a panic after noticing a substance on the wall. After later examining the wall, it was a number seven written in a red chunky blood-like substance. Jaden Smith quickly ran into my room which was across the hall to alert me to what was going on. I was very confused after learning that someone had gained access to my home knowing that all the doors were locked. I then immediately went downstairs to contact my father Will Smith, I had to inform him that someone made their way into our home. After meeting up with Will I decided to look into the footage of the security cameras, to see if they had caught the culprit, and indeed they did. It was none other than Kim Zolciak.

I now found this footage and knew I had to make my way to the police immediately, so I ran outside and embraced the cool spring weather at around 5 pm and ran to the end of the road where I noticed the police/ fire department. With my laptop in hand and will smith following i made my way to the officer to present my findings so he could make an arrest. I had the image of Kim pulled up on my screen so the officer could see. There was no mistaking if it was her or not, you could see the plastic features from a mile away. So I presented the image to the officer and he refused to take a look claiming that it was impossible for it to be her. I knew he was covering for her for some reason i just couldn't figure out what that reason was exactly. So i was still seated at the end of the road trying to figure out what was going on, when all of a sudden one of the firefighters tried to spray my laptop with the hose, as if trying to destroy the evidence. For some odd reason all of them wanted the evidence gone. So I then made my way back home with Will Smith. Upon returning to the house I noticed that the garage door was broken. After seeing that I knew that had to have been the way Kim had got inside to attack Jaden. So I knew that I had to repair the garage or else she was going to get inside all over again. So I noticed that the garage door was raided up one-fourth of the way allowing enough room for someone to get inside, and for some reason, the door didn't want to go back down. I had tried everything from putting bricks on the bottom lege to hold the door closed manually, to jamming broom sticks in the side to prevent the door from going up any more. Then all of a sudden the door basically turned into a tarp so now the win was lowing it all over the place, The sun was beginning to set and I knew I had to figure something out fast or else Kim would get in and finish the job. So I tried holding the tarp down with bricks, and that didn't work so I once again decided to tie the sides and that seemed to help. I now embarked back inside to see what was going on with Will and Jaden and that's where my dream ended. 

Week 1 Outside of class

This week outside of class was spent working on a video where the task was to animate a line. We all picked emotions from a list and had to portray the emotion using one line. At first, I didn't think this would be his hard and  I thought that it would be somewhat easy to do but I was very wrong. Going from making a graphic to illustrate exactly what I want it to, no I had to portray everything with just one single line.
overall I think the video turned out okay It was just hard trying to show an emotion with a single line. I know exactly what being elated would look like with just being a facial expression, but with a line, it was nearly impossible. The main thing that I had to think of was the fact that the line was supposed to show an emotion effectively.

Week 1B

Today in class we did another exercise using an Animation Praxinoscope. This was another interesting exercise since we once again created our own image. the most difficult thing was having to recreate the same image around un a circle, and also making sure it made sense to start and end. I decided to go with an image of a monster who went through a phase of anger and then would go back to smiling. I noticed several things wrong with the design I chose and I would do many things differently.

Week 1A

Today was the first class of the semester. This class consisted of going over the syllabus and learning what all the class had in store. We also watched an example video of all the ways graphics can transform when combining motion. It showed the history and the evolution of motion graphics and how far the field has come. The second part of the class was used to create a contraption where two elements spun to combine one image. I created an avocado on one side, and a piece of toast on the other to combine and make avocado toast.