Production Percentage

Today I shall finish my rotoscoping and start my stop motion project.

Rotoscoping Project percentage: 95%

Stop Motion Project percentage: 50%

Screenshot of rotoscope

ScreenShot of stop motion

Weekly Report 12/9 - Rotoscoping is Better than Sleeping Pills.

What I've learned: How to draw a lot of frames in a time span of 2 hours.

What I want to learn: How to use screen capturing software to upload my animations.

What made me mad: Drawing a lot of frames in a time span of 2 hours.

What made me happy: When the 2 hours ended.

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures - Expert Parent

Light Bright Stop Motion

Take On Me

:D

Rejected Cartoons

My Spoon Is too Big

A scene from Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected Cartoons

Repost of GORK

GORK Sci-Fi trailer Rotoscope animation

The film was shot with a 16mm film camera and took from 1985 till 1989 to finish the film. The overall reason for  the lengthy work time was that the rotoscoping was done using good ol' fashioned cel painting techniques. It was also mostly a one man project. Have to give props for that.

5 Principles of Animation Screenshots

More screenshots, this time from my old "5 Principles of Animation" animation.

They're the only pictures worth showing.

2D Short Screenshots

I've finished my 2D short project, here are some screenshots.

Lessons Learned the Hard Way with Audacity

Failing Recording with Audacity

---VOLUME WARNING---

Weekly Report 11/4 - Ain't got nothin on that dark matter

What I've learned: How to (drum roll) IMPORT MUSIC YAAAAAY

What I want to learn: How to claymation.

What made meh mad: Finding out how many things I could of used a motion tween on instead of doing it frame by frame.

What made meh hippy: My EL wire came in the mail a few days ago!

AWWWW YEAAAAA

New Video

Dacoda and Alex Have a Conversation

Creepers n Stuff

Halloween photos!

Weekly Report 10/28 - Halloween

What I've learned: How to import music into flash....already forgot how....

What I want to learn: how to relearn putting music into flash

What made me happy: i finished my Deadmau5 costume.

What made me mad: felt doesnt go on round objects very easily

GOT PICTURES

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FINISHED MAH DEADMAU5 COSTUME

OH MAH GAWD I FINALLY FINISHED IT AND I ACTUALLY DID IT BEFORE HALLOWEEN I WILL BE THE MOST POPULAR KID IN SKOOL EVAR FDSAHGDSQWFHDJSKGSDA



I HAVE NO PICTURES THOUGH. (I will soon.)

Weekly Report 10/21 - Chuggin Dat Nesquik

What I've Learned: That Windows Movie Maker takes forever to publish a video.

What I Want to Learn: How to add music to flash. Im beginning to sound like a broken record (MUSIC PUN OHHH SNAP).

My Rage of the Week: New WMM sucks, old WMM can't support my cameras video files. Any other free video editing software sucks too.

What Made Me Happy: Getting further on my deadmau5 head :D

Inspiration

I've recently heard of an underrated video game masterpiece known as Bastion. I haven't done any research on the game's plot, but I've seen some gameplay footage and a couple short reviews. But what I did find out about the game was it's score which I thought to be one of the greatest collections of music I've ever heard in a video game.

Here's one of the 22 songs from the soundtrack.

Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)

Lyrics by Darren Korb

Vocals by Ashley Barrett

A simple, emotional, beautiful work of art. Both the game and it's music alike.

But overall inspiring.

Credits to Supergiant Games

Do the Johnny Bravo

Weekly Report 10/14 - Ending a Project

What I've Learned: That you can really surprise yourself from getting things done after procrastinating things for so long.


What I want to Learn: I want to add ze music to ze animations so i can dance with my stick people.

What Made Me Sed: Slenderman.


What Made me Heppy: I got started on my deadmau5 head today (insert happy face).

FL Studio: My First Attempt at a Song

First Try

This is my first good honest attempt at creating a song in FL Studio 10.

Been fooling around with it to get the feel of what a complicated music program feels like.

Nick & Sean in Ping Pong

Nick & Sean in Ping Pong

An old film my friends and I made awhile back. I really 

wanted to go old school with the titles and recording the 

music. This is how it turned out.

Weekly Report 10/7 - Stick Figures and Stick Figures and Stick Figures...

What I've learned: How to motion tween a stick figure, how to classic tween a stick figure, how frame by frame animate a stick figure......stick figures.


What I want to learn: How to make uber awesome typography videos.

What gave me lemons: Having Flash crash on me for the first time. I've just noticed that flash rhymes with crash, how appropriate.


What made my lemons into lemonade: Seeing my animations coming out so well. Can't wait to start on an actual project.

Too lazy to add a funny picture this week.

Damp Moose Productions

I had totally forgotten to do this.
I've never presented my channel yet, so here it is: DampMooseProductions

We pretty much specialize in comedy. Here are some of our videos to show off what we've done last year.

Grape Jelly

Possibly our most well done video.

Intervention

I have a serious talk with Sean about his alcohol problem.

If you want more, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/DampMooseProductions

Homemade Professional Dolly

How to make a cheap small dolly that fits on your tripod with professional results!

Trolley Dolly (Camera Slider)

Weekly Report 9/30 - FLASH

What I've learned: Flash, Flash, some Flash, a little bit of Flash, and...um....oh yea, FLASH. Motion tweens, classic tweens, shape tweens, frame by frame animation, movie clip animation, animating text, masking, and lastly the bone tool.

What I want to learn: How to pay someone to do all of this for me. And how to operate garage band.


What made me ADSGLHADSGHD: "Wheres the ease button? I cant find it. It says its right here. Where is it?? I can't move on without pressing it! WHERE IS IT OMG AFSLKFHDLSF;AGSAWQDFGVBVNGHKDS oh here it is. *click*"


What made me not break my keyboard: This.

SANDVICHES

Film Riot!

The one stop place to learn about all kinds of tips and tricks of film making! Film Riot uncovers the secrets of what it takes to make good films and shows you how to make your own films with low-budgets techniques that can actually give your movie some potential.

How to Shoot a Scene!

THE PONY TRAILER-ATHON part 1

You know you want em! You know you love em! You can never get enough of them! Its PONIESSSSSSSSSS ASDFGHGNALHVDSPAEIAGHD

THE RAINBOW KNIGHT

300 PONIES

INGLOURIOUS PONIES

FLUTTERSHY ISLAND

Weekly Report 9/23 - Discovered Colors

What I've learned: The 5 major principles of design, the elements of design, a few things about flash, and the beloved, magical, all powerful color wheel. 

What I want to learn: How to animate in flash and how the process of adding music to the animation is achieved.

What made me mad: Continuously recoloring and reprinting my color harmonies project over and over because I either used the wrong color matches or the printer refusing to print a simple red-orange background.

What brought me joy: Finally getting to use and learn about the flash software. The joy was short-lived for that the program was not as fun as I imagined in my head.

My reaction to flash:

I hope ill get better with it soon...

FREDDY MERCURY IS BACK FROM THE DEAD

HE MUST OF SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GET THAT ONE IN A BILLION VOICE.

WE MUST TELL OF HIS TALENT TO EVERYONE. TELL THE CHILDREN, THE TEENS, THE ADULTS, THE ELDERLY, YOUR BROTHER, SISTER, MOM, DAD, COUSIN, EVERYONE.

AS YOU CAN TELL I AM EXCITED. 

How I get my homework done

When the battle of homework and procrastination doesn't end on its own, its up to progressive house music to save the day!

deadmau5 - 4x4=12 (ENTIRE ALBUM)

Weekly Report 9/16 - Adobe Illustrator

This is the weekly report, here ill leave little post-its and bits of information about my learning experience through the course of animation class and post anything else that's relevant.

What I've learned: The very basics of the Adobe Illustrator software, how to operation a scanner, and how to use a drawing tablet. Im like a friggin learnin machine, man.

What I want to learn: How to animate my character (in the most painless way possible). And how to crank up the mouse sensitivity on a mac computer, its like i have to move my mouse more than an inch to get all the way across the screen!

Aggravations: Having to redrawn your entire picture because you used the wrong drawing tool to trace it so you can fill it with color (sorry Enya!) and taking 45 minutes to draw your character in a simple fighting pose because you have know idea how to draw the exact positioning of the legs and having to erase it several times and having the erasing shavings get all over your bed so now you have to google how to draw fight poses and learn how to draw the right pose you want but they dont have the tutorial for the pose you want so you just say f it and move on with your life and take 2 hours drawing other poses for your character.

Alleviations: Playing my ukulele. Don't judge me.

GORK - A Unique Rotoscoping Animation

This is a very strange but oddly interesting short film done with rotoscoping animation.
GORK Sci-Fi trailer Rotoscope animation

The film was shot with a 16mm film camera and took from 1985 till 1989 to finish the film. The overall reason for  the lengthy work time was that the rotoscoping was done using good ol' fashioned cel painting techniques. It was also mostly a one man project. Have to give props for that.

The Beginning of the End of the Beginning

The beginning of a blog. The first step of something new in my life, something i've always dreaded and avoided for as long as i could. But alas, it is inevitable.

This, is my blog.

I think i threw up a little in my mouth...

Its going to be awhile but ill get used to blogging sooner or later. Writing was never my style, but i've always enjoyed the little spurts of creativity that i get from time to time that i wanted to express through writing. Like movie ideas, video ideas, stories, or just small ideas that pop into my head that im afraid to forget.

So anyway, THIS is what im doing. I shall post what ever comes to mind and what ever i am required to post. And with the option of posting videos and pictures, i have a large arsenal of what i will post.

In the mean time, this is the beginning of the end of the beginning.