VFX-101 My Second assignment

hey guys, i know i havent posted in a while BUT!! i have been doing assignments over my holiday break (how tradgic) but yeah hopefully it will turn out alot better then my first assignment haha :S

so for this assignment two it is 1-3 minutes of animation, i have a hopefully a good idea which you guys will love haha

i will be using 2D either drawn or on photoshop or toonboom or something, making the characters and settings silhouttes in plain black with either a white or blue background.
im going to try simple animation for this story to hopefully work with mostly only sections of the characters moving and or backgrounds moving.

its not a "happy ending" story haha 

so i have a fairly simple character of a boy who sneaks away from his house to go to a circus show, little does he know that the circus is a creepy freaky circus run by a tall skinny clown type character who lets him backstage to see the puppets.
the clown character then makes the child into one of those puppets and the child tries to fight the strings but is unsuccessful and the clown character makes the boy part of the show... the boy gets pulled and pushed around faster and faster until at the climax of speed the clown cuts the ties from his hands and the boy plumets into darkness... the end...


so this is my first rough character design hope you like it

MPI-104 Assignment One

hey people! whats the haps?

this is my blog-post for mpi104 detailing what ive done so far within the course, its been pretty intense these last few weeks trying to keep on posting about things and do several other assignments for my other classes.

MPI has been relatively interesting so far we have covered all the basics of Gmail, Blogger, Flickr and Delicious. things such as;
how to post,
customizing gmail and blogger,
creating layouts and designs,
and many a many more things.

so here is my progress on Blogger which i was reluctant to use at first but now i find it pretty interesting.

so far i have posted only a little including this one, i am boasting an amazing seven posts!! wooo!
this post by far is the most interesting of them Interesting post!!
ive also tried to create a simple sleek like look where the writing/font is easy to read with a plain-ish black background. i find the simple stuff more effective and efficient to see what is going on.
ive tried to create labels/tags in blogger and keep them consistent, they include such gems as;
MPI104_2012
VPA104
VFX101
social media
Flickr
Delicious
and many more.
blogger is also good for commenting and reading other peoples posts and what their interests are and such things. here is some links to comments ive contributed to some posts post 1, post 2


other things ive done within blogger is add a link list to show and join up everything that ive done so far. and of course what kind of blog would be complete without the FISHTANK!!!
anyway, blogger has been pretty successful so far according to myself of course.



let us now discuss the uses of Flickr,
flickr which im sure all of you are aware is a video and images sharing website, i find this pretty handy because i take two classes which i need to post on another forum my progress for that subject. so naturally i took to flickr like a duck on water.

so i think basically that flickr is awesome and i love seeing other peoples pictures and images and trying to figure out how they did that so i can try to use that for my own photography.
ive so far only uploaded 6 photos but i do have 2 small videos about my walk cycle stuff, (even though my walk cycle was terrible)

if you want to check my you stream here is the link ---> You! Stream

but you know why search through all my photos when you could just look at my most awesome of photos right here!
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3


so all this talking about different website is getting you confused right?

well have no fear!! Delicious is here!!
its basically a giant bookmarking website, you can create stacks and sort out through all your mess of websites and keep your favorite ones here so you only have to remember the one, pretty handy right?

so as of yet i have a grand total of 2 stacks, one for mpi-104 and another for my personal usage.
these all contain a massive number of about.... eight links in total... pretty sad right? but they are mainly the ones i use the most.

if you want to check out my awesome stacks go here ---> stacks
three of my links in my stacks include youtube, facebook and memebase because thats the way i roll
check em out - link 1, link 2 and link 3




as i said all of these i was sort of reluctant at first to use but as i used them i understood their value and how they can contribute to getting my work and social life organized :D

so that is all from me, hope you guys had fun trying to read all this and if you did.. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!.... you didnt win anything.

Awesomeness!!

so i am an animator right, i like all things things animation and i like to most random of things.  stuff like harry partridge.
my farvorites from him include;
the justin beiber show,
stehpen the lesbien,
cole phelps super cop.
but my all time favorite would have to be michael the terrible boyfriend!!

its just the inate randomness that i admire about animations like this and how they are so unexpected and funny. comedy is one of the most hardest things to pull off within animation. we all enjoy a laugh everynow and then so why not just look these up along with other people such as llamas with hats and other things :D

My Animation

As many of you may or may not be aware i am a new animator. this year so far within my class at CSU we have been doing walk cycles. they are pretty boring to do but are very essential for this field. here is a link to what i have got for my walk so far. this is just the legs but i do have another version almost complete with arms and everything. walk cycle