Russian Santa Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- There are still animation directors who want to make movies without pop culture references.
- Santa is finally remade with a serious and more interesting character design.
- That directors still aren't afraid to make scary scenes in children's movies.

2 opinions:
- Peter Ramsey is a good director in my book. Serious Santa and scary but meaningful scenes? 10/10.
- I like the naturalistic style of cinematic animation.

1 question - Why does the rabbit and that little yellow man have to look to ridiculous?

Weekly Report 12/2 - The Lack of Owning Premiere is Killing Me

What I learned: For every day you work on your tutorials, you shall receive another tutorial.

What I want to learn: How to get a lot of free cardboard. To make a city. To destroy it. In a monster costume. It's a plan for a project. #dontjudgeme

What made me happy: I'm one step closer to getting Adobe software.

What made me sad: The website is taking it's grand old time accepting my evidence as an eligible student.

Good ol' fashioned hard work:

Toys R Us Demo Disk (PS1) - Game 2 - Legend of Legaia [PART 1]

A new video on my new channel. It's 26 minutes long and is full of funny text-commentary that I've become accustomed to making. It took way too much time to make.

Twilight Romance Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That Edward is the most superior male of all human kind.
- Jeep owners have conflicting relationships with their vampire-loving spouses.
- When men feel that their masculinity is challenged by fantasy creatures, they write poems about it.

2 opinions:
- I actually expected worse.
- I would get a divorce too if my girl was that crayzay.

1 question - What made those people talk about Twilight on a Jeep forum?

Stop Motion SpongeBob Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That there is a stop motion SpongeBob episode. I seriously need to get with the times.
- Screen Novelties worked on several other Cartoon Network shows.
- People will work on stop motion for 15 hours in one day.

2 opinions:
- That's a lot of fruity pebbles.
- I hope this is better written than the new SpongeBob episodes.

1 question - Why didn't they just use a sponge to make SpongeBob?

Weekly Report 11/18 - The Extended Deadline Will Give You Enough Time, She Said....

What I learned: How to make text in After Effects. I know we learned more, but that's the only thing I used so far. Therefore I forgot everything else.

What I want to learn: How to use more video effects in AE.

What made me happy: Getting permission to use my friend's music for the documentary.

What made me sad: I couldn't get my most sought after interview with one of my favorite youtubers.

#coolstuff

I've always known that video games are often used to project cinematic pieces of art, whether it's a rendered CGI cut-scene or in-game recorded footage. But I've never bought my attention to Grand Theft Auto 4's capability of letting players create a real looking cinematic film/video. I'm not sure if these are from means of in-game recording mechanics or its a separate software altogether (not just Fraps), but some users can pull off some borderline professional looking action scenes using the game engine.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

Colorblind Glasses Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That colorblindness could be restored.
- That glasses had the potential to fix colorblindness and not something more medicinal.
- Non-colorblind people can also see better, more full colors with these glasses.

2 opinions:
- 600 dollars for these glasses is pretty insane.
- 400 dollars is even more insane for people who don't even need them.

1 question - I wonder what would happen if I wore multiple colorblind glasses at once...would I see through walls eventually?

iPhone Filmmaking Response

3 things I learned from this article:
-  That this type of production isn't professionally treated like a regular film (i.e the director has to watch the iPhone footage off the actor's phone.)
- A fake documentary has a better chance to be more well received than a real one.
- You're ALLOWED to use low grade cameras to make first-person documentary footage.

2 opinions:
- I'm glad Levinson didn't give actors unrealistic top tier cameras to film their "found footage".
- I'd beat the actor who forgot to press record on their phone.

1 question - Would there be a higher chance of having artifacts in the cell phone footage?