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Oops!!

I didn’t work on a green screen project. Honestly, I should’ve tried it out at least, but I had already spent so much money for this class and I didn’t want to go out and buy green poster board. That was the major factor in why I didn’t try it out. Sorry!

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storyboard for final project!! plus some random notes to myself, but this wouldn’t be my notebook without them

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a group project I helped work on!!! from earlier in the quarter. I'm a good student, I swear

http://gianni-arts.blogspot.com/2018/01/255-frames-excluding-of-end-card-for.html

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final project for art class!!! stop motion paper animation

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reaction to animator’s survival kit

At first, I thought the survival kit was going to be a really dull read, so I procrastinated reading it. Which, now having read it, I believe was a very stupid thing for me to have done. The author has a humorous way of speaking which kept me amused and fascinated. The most important points I took away from the text were to know the basics of how real life functions. With every great piece of art, you must know how to properly obscure reality. I did improv classes when I was younger, and my greatest criticism was that I needed to be grounded in reality. Humor and satire and commentary only work if it has real-life merit. 

Another thing I took note of was weight. It goes hand in hand with adhering to the rules of real life. We have gravity on planet earth, and if you want your animation to be based in this planet, it must abide by the same rules. 

There were a lot of things that I thought “duh” when I read it, and that is to say that I was already thinking of using timing and space and anticipation when I have been making my videos. I shall now be more cognitive of it. 

The other important things I learned were not directly about animation, but more about attitude towards life. Don’t have regrets, and it’s okay to turn the music off. Richard Williams regretted not sneaking in a pencil behind his dead friend’s ear at his funeral, and that struck me as being incredibly heart breaking. If you want to do something (within your limits), then GO for it!! For the music part, I used to have the tendency to draw in silence. Then some ex-boyfriend came along and told me that I was a “music casual”, and he had such a snobby air about him that I wanted to prove him wrong. So I started listening to a lot of music, and gelt bad when I didn’t have music playing (like I was missing out on something). But there is a quiet beauty towards life that can easily be swept under the rug if you always have a pair of headphones on. I would like to see what I am capable of when I am truly concentrating. I can’t wait to give this a try.

All in all, fantastic read! I will peruse the survival kit again. 

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claymation project!! 

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just a normal day!! paper project 

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stop motion w my everyday objects!!!!

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reaction to cartoon villains article

Firstly, I think it’s gross giving villains and “others” foreign accents. This instantly gives children an “us vs. them” mentality. A lot of biases stem from weird, long held beliefs (weird being that cartoons *could* be used as a form of brainwashing). It appalls me that when villain characters were given american accents, that they were from areas of a lower socioeconomic status. That is training a child’s brain (which is very malleable) that people who don’t speak in a proper, unaccented tone are the “good” and “smart” characters. I could only imagine how bad it must feel being a kid hearing a villain with their accent. I am glad we are becoming moe aware of this bias in  our society. Movie’s like Coco are good for overcoming this stereotype. Coco was nice because every character had a Mexican accent. Coco allowed Mexicans to have a sense of pride, which is what cartoons should be doing for people of all ethnicities, not just white plain-English speaking Americans. 

Secondly, I can understand why people in charge of casting villain’s voices would use foreign accents. Not that I think it’s an acceptable practice, but how many accents do we actually have to work with?I wish every character had a diverse accent, good or bad. It is still bad that cartoons tend to demonize non-American English accents, but I understand that it is a challenge that needs hard work to overcome. 

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stuffed animal self portrait stop motion!

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stop motion self portrait!

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poster for my high school’s production of “The Hobbit”, circa: 2012

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sad bunny lady 

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printmaking 

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making Pearl (plus bonus Rogi shot!)

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“what happened: a tale of life so far”

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greenware stage of a ceramics piece