Adam Phillips 4/10/07 LITTLE FOOT

I liked the colors in this animation, there was always a green color in the shot and it was a vibrant green. He also made it so that the objects in the foreground were in focus and the background was blurred which is a very good technique. The shots were fairly simple with a regular establishing shot and then having little foot just wander around on the scene. He used some cool effects to make the sun glare and the foggy appearance in the field. He had the camera pan up when the boy picked up the rock off the floor which made it feel more "movie-like" rather than animated.

Adam Phillips 4/10/07 LITTLE FOOT

I liked the colors in this animation, there was always a green color in the shot and it was a vibrant green. He also made it so that the objects in the foreground were in focus and the background was blurred which is a very good technique. The shots were fairly simple with a regular establishing shot and then having little foot just wander around on the scene. He used some cool effects to make the sun glare and the foggy appearance in the field. He had the camera pan up when the boy picked up the rock off the floor which made it feel more "movie-like" rather than animated.

3/3 Animation

The animation was interesting in the sense that it was put together uing things such as food to create a shape and the sounds that were used as the effects were all the sounds u would hear form those particular items. I also liked how it morphed into everything rather than just cut from one shot to another. It helped the piece "flow" better.

3/27/07 BLOG

The Radiohead music video that we watched in class today was interesting, it was a different approach to animation than what we'v been shown. The detail of the mouth movements was very good, it had the shape of a real mouth when the figure was singing and the mouth stayed open when the long notes were held. Very good focus on the detail of the mouth to be ontime with the singing. I also like the "wipes" they used when changing scenes, it was almost as it the next scene fell ontop of the old one wiping in away. They had a good shot of when the guy was singing and you can see him through the window and also see the building from the outside looking in. I also liked how the credits had the picture of the keyframes from FLASH.

LEMONY SNICKETS 3/20/07

I liked how the credits were placed into certain shapes that would be moving to attract your eye and then when the name appeared, the movement would stop or slow down so that our eye can focus on the name and read it. Also, the credits that were put into the rain cloud that followed the car as it drove down the road was a clever idea. The whole credits idea was very well thought out, it almost seemed to be a "pre-movie" of the movie as the credits ran. Even at the end when they were doing the cast, they had a texturized background which made it stand out more than having a black background of a typical film.

2/27 DANISH ANIMATION

The Danish animation was more of a drawn out animation that looked to be scanned in and then imported to flash and so forth. The movement was well done with the bicycle to the eye movement as something was being read from a letter. I also liked how they went into detail enough to make the clouds move during the storm. I liked how the stars at night twinkled to give it a more realistic feeling. The camera zoomed into shots which gave it a sort of "movie" feel although it was an animation.

2/20 DISNEY BLOG

The animation from Disney was well done, it used many lighting effects to achieve the idea of the sun shinning down. The animals were very animated in their actions and sounds and movements. The songs that were played in the animation were played into the animals sounds very cleverly to make it seem as if the animals were the ones making the music to the song, The way that the piece was put together so that the windmill did not hurt the bird or the eggs was also very clever.

4th Blog

I liked how the sketches became real pictures and how the story was told with actual words and that the words corresponded with the actions. The animation would jump back and forth between drawings and real pictures. He also made simple symbols like an arrow come to life and help tell the stories. He also had parts when there would be a zoom in and zoom out of the picture which created a good effect. The actual story held up very well with an animation, something that you wouldn't think would work so well, but it did.

3rd Blog

The Brothers Quay
It was an interesting animation because it was an animation of puppets creating puppets, but the puppets they were making looked like the two brother who made the animation. It almost had a sense of "horror" to the animation. The music gave it path to follow and added to the awkward horror feel of the animation. This took a whole different path to animation than I have seen or been accustomed to.

Week 2

Bendito Machine

I liked how the sound effects were on time with all the motions that you saw in on the screen. It was very detail oriented with the little puffs of smoke as then machine feel over and the parts hit the ground. As well as when they were building things and using a saw to cut wood, there would be little wood chips flying away. Very well put together and very well thought out. The sound also helped it be more realistic.

First Blog

1/23
The animation we viewed in class showed how painstaking it use to be to create animations with thousands of drawings. We say the stacks upon stacks of drawings that were needed to create the Dinosaur animation. Flash allows you to place two keyframes with a motion in-between the frames and the computer will fill in the rest, it saves hours of time because there is hardly any drawing.