Tensions Are High

To start us off, I just wanted to say today's my dad's birthday, so I've been a very busy girl this weekend. He's an oldie now. So to celebrate his birthday, I made a cake. Well.. By the time I finished baking and then decorating the cake, it was confirmed that the outside looked like something from monster's inc(color scheme was epic), and also that I should never try to write on cakes, not ever again. Otherwise it looked awesome. As for the inside... As a little joke, we made it camouflage pink. Not even joking! So the inside became known as the secret Barbie's Hunter edition. In the end, the cake turned out to be super delicious so that made everything ten times better.

Moving on

This week felt verrrrrryyyyyyy hectic. Not only did I get a lot of homework for school, but I was having trouble making a flipbook. I think it turned out "decent" at best. Ha.. That was a big pain. Note to self, don't use markers to color, they are pains in my butt. After everything calmed down during the end of the week though.. It was a lot better.

So this week I had my first real technical difficulty. I just think the computer was being rude, for the most part. So while we were diligently working on our "beautiful"(mine was scary) design principal project and color scheme project, the computer did not like me trying to put items on different layers, and if I tried selecting an item after creating a new layer.. It said "NO YOU CANNOT DO THAT AHAHAHA". Oooor something along those lines. Was anyone else having issues? Anyways, I'm soooo glad that's over with. Now for the really hard stuff-animating. I've never tried animating and the whole gist of it seems pretty intimidating. I better hope that A) I gain a natural knack and keen understanding of it(being the program AND how animating works) or B) That my neighbors will be there to help me. and or C) That my hair grows fast, because without A or B, I predict I'm going to be yanking my hair out or that I'll "spontaneously" burst into flames from being overwhelmed with confusion/anger/all them feels. All them feels. So those are my worries.

This week was quite an interesting one overall, if I were to analyze it from another perspective(oh optimism don't fail me now). We learned all about how to make characters, scenes, art in general, far more interesting and appealing to the viewers. That was all in the first three days. The last two days, we focused more on the principals of animation: the basic rules every animator should follow. Some of these rules were Squish and Stretch. A character won't be in the same proportions for every pose. There was also a time, exaggeration, ease in/ease out, staging, etc. I think my top three go from Squish and stretch, Exaggeration, and finally Time. I like how realistic or over the top Squish and Stretch can make something. Exaggeration reminds me of Emphasis (from design elements), because Exaggeration can emphasize an emotion or the size of one object in correlation to another. It can also bring humor into play. As for Time, I think it shows a lot more meaning into actions and just how a character may think. For example, in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (which we watched in class yay), As Flint went to push the button to stop the machine, he moved slower. It showed how hesitant he was to stop the machine. Anyways, we seem to be a little ahead of schedule and that makes me excited because that means we can now begin to dabble into the process of animation!(Oh and maybe if we work as well as we have been, we'll be able to get to 3d animation a little sooner as well, for those who are looking forward to that)

And now for the famous link of this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbiALaUzUhc

I'm very satisfied with this second (full) week of school and can't wait for what's in store for us.

Now that I think I've covered everything in this week sufficiently.. It's around that time for sleep.
Good night guys and see you tomorrow!