MUTO A Wall-Painted Animation by BLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
This is a short film that I came across while browsing on Youtube, that I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy watching. It involves stop motion photography in a very quirky, imaginative, and rather surreal way. I like how the wall drawings are done in the streets, which give it this whole urban graffiti-like feel. I've always thought about trying stop motion photography, but I know it will take a lot of time and work. This video is relevant to our class because it involves animation, something that we've been learning about. I think it is especially interesting because it showcases another type of animation, and it is good to explore various kinds.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Art Event #4
Flash Animation by Daniel Yu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oILLemHxAg
I believe this is just a demo reel of this particular person's animation work. I discovered it on Youtube one day and found it really cute and fun. I couldn't help but wonder if this person had really done this work himself, because it looked like it was really from a children's cartoon you'd see on TV. I still love cartoons and watch them to this day so this was something delightful for me. The characters and designs are very creative, and you can tell that the particular artist is quite advanced and experienced in what he does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oILLemHxAg
I believe this is just a demo reel of this particular person's animation work. I discovered it on Youtube one day and found it really cute and fun. I couldn't help but wonder if this person had really done this work himself, because it looked like it was really from a children's cartoon you'd see on TV. I still love cartoons and watch them to this day so this was something delightful for me. The characters and designs are very creative, and you can tell that the particular artist is quite advanced and experienced in what he does.
Art Event #3
Chiho Aoshima
http://www.galerieperrotin.com/artiste-Chiho_Aoshima-17.html#
Chiho Aoshima is a Japanese pop artist, and I remember falling in love with her work from the first time I saw it. The provided link is an online gallery of some of her pieces. She is a graphic artist and her work is often of surreal scenes and dreamscapes. I love the colors that she uses in her work, and her particular drawing style is also very attractive to me. In addition to her large scale image works, she has also done sculpture and an animation.
http://www.galerieperrotin.com/artiste-Chiho_Aoshima-17.html#
Chiho Aoshima is a Japanese pop artist, and I remember falling in love with her work from the first time I saw it. The provided link is an online gallery of some of her pieces. She is a graphic artist and her work is often of surreal scenes and dreamscapes. I love the colors that she uses in her work, and her particular drawing style is also very attractive to me. In addition to her large scale image works, she has also done sculpture and an animation.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Art Event #2
Teen Girl Squad
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html
This is a cartoon series from the ever popular homestarrunner.com website that I've really grown to love since my early high school years. Basically the story is about four girls who go on various adventures and engage in stereotypical activities of teenage girls; only, it's more of a comedic and crude take on those experiences. The animations aren't exactly amazing, but this animation series has really grown on me and can provide a good laugh now and then. Being an animation series, this relates to our class and how we do Flash animations.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html
This is a cartoon series from the ever popular homestarrunner.com website that I've really grown to love since my early high school years. Basically the story is about four girls who go on various adventures and engage in stereotypical activities of teenage girls; only, it's more of a comedic and crude take on those experiences. The animations aren't exactly amazing, but this animation series has really grown on me and can provide a good laugh now and then. Being an animation series, this relates to our class and how we do Flash animations.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Art Event #1
"Physics of Animation"
DATE & PLACE VIEWED: Tuesday March 10, 2009 in Science Hall 2 Room 242 at 12PM
This was a lecture given by Alejandro Garcia, who is a Physics professor at San Jose State University. In this lecture, we basically covered the three basic types of animation (traditional, computer, and stop-motion), other animation-related work, and a general physics lesson for animators which included a lot of equations. We learned that "to create believable animations, animators need to understand the basic principles of physics". This lecture was definitely relevant to what we are learning in class about Flash animation, but I thought it was interesting in that we got to view animation from a more scientific standpoint. I also enjoyed how Professor Garcia showed us some scenes from several movies which included physics that didn't really make any sense (for example, from "Hancock", "Hulk", and "Nacho Libre"). These movie scenes were really hilarious to watch actually. And finally, a really good website that he gave us was animationphysics.com
DATE & PLACE VIEWED: Tuesday March 10, 2009 in Science Hall 2 Room 242 at 12PM
This was a lecture given by Alejandro Garcia, who is a Physics professor at San Jose State University. In this lecture, we basically covered the three basic types of animation (traditional, computer, and stop-motion), other animation-related work, and a general physics lesson for animators which included a lot of equations. We learned that "to create believable animations, animators need to understand the basic principles of physics". This lecture was definitely relevant to what we are learning in class about Flash animation, but I thought it was interesting in that we got to view animation from a more scientific standpoint. I also enjoyed how Professor Garcia showed us some scenes from several movies which included physics that didn't really make any sense (for example, from "Hancock", "Hulk", and "Nacho Libre"). These movie scenes were really hilarious to watch actually. And finally, a really good website that he gave us was animationphysics.com
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