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Final 12/11/17

8:17- filling in character

8:36- i truly never thought this day would come but i filled all the frames thank god

Notes:

left to fill F 332+

F 279-298 watch fill?

Goals:

fill in character

add background

To do moving forward:

back up to google drive

CANCELLED walk away, smaller (if time permits)

final notes: 

YAY DONE WOOT

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Final 12/7/17

≥12:30- fill in

12:56- line editing under right arm (starting @ F 95)

12:58- fill in 

1:26- edits to phone/watch

1:45 break 

2- done! 

just kidding it’s time for moRE FILLING IN

2:52- calling it a day for sanity reasons. going to have to come back today and/or tomorrow to finish filing and draw background

left off on frame 332- 110 frames to go (but less because I only need to do per keyframe, thank goodness)

2:55- save and upload to google drive

Notes:

left to fill F 217+

F 279-298 watch fill?

Goals:

fill in character 

add background

walk away, smaller (if time permits)

To do moving forward:

back up to google drive

fill in character

add background

walk away, smaller (if time permits)

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Final 12/5/17

12:30- review

12:45- walk cycle, walk away

1:00-edit wonky contact pose frames (F 13, 36, 61, 385, 409, 433)

1:30- reposition frames for walk cycle accuracy (F 95-149)

2:00- break (left off on F 372)

2:10- finish repositioning

2:20- review & image flip (F 446)

2:24- walk back & smaller (begin copy F 373) scale down by 2 per motion? 

Overall going well, but I think with time constraint I need to just leave it as it is, because I feel that I wont be able to have the diagonal walk away done where it would look complete. Also, I don’t have diagonal guidelines at this time. So I think rather than add to the narrative I am going to go back now and focus on some details and add a background. 

2:39- fill in character so that background doesn’t intersect the body

2:48- close gaps & fill

-saved version unfilled

Goals:

walk away

turn around

walk away, smaller

rework entrance walk? (if time permits)

To do moving forward:

back up to google drive

Progress:

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Final 11/30/17

2:05- check watch, watch display

2:35- research shrug gesture

2:45- draw shrug, reverse frames

2:50- delete reference notes/ walk sample layers, 

2:55- edit small details, back up to google drive

Goals:

check watch

watch display

shrug

To do moving forward:

back up to google drive

walk away

turn around

walk away, smaller

rework entrance walk? (if time permits)

Progress:

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Final 11/28/17

12:30- finish 8 poses legs, add 8 poses arms

1-1:13- place for walk cycle

1:15- import video- canceled- drawn from reference instead

2:16- break

2:34- put phone back in pocket (reverse order of phone take out frames) 

2:46- rework story ideas- checks watch, watch time display, shrug, walk or run away

Goals:

-draw character

-take reference pictures for walk cycle

-draw 8 poses

-rotoscope draw pick up phone

-what makes subject speed up? –> meeting reminder

To do moving forward:

-draw finish 4 frames legs, start arms

-import images 

backed up to google drive

CANCELLED import video to cc and rotoscope phone pick up

check watch

watch display

turn around 

walk away

Progress: 

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Final 11/16/17

12:30- character references/drawing character 

1:22-2- reference video shoot/import video 

2-3- drawing 8 frames

Goals:

-draw character

-take reference pictures for walk cycle

-draw 8 poses- 4 done

-rotoscope pick up phone

-what makes subject speed up?  --> meeting reminder

To do moving forward: 

-draw finish 4 frames legs, start arms

-import images and video

backed up to google drive

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Final Proposal

A study on walk cycles.

We start by seeing a woman walking slowly in a trench coat, hat, scarf, boots. she looks around and enjoys the walk, very leisurely not a care in the world. We hear a beep. She looks down at her pocket, puts out a phone. We see the phone screen which reads something along the lines of “meeting- 10 minutes!” She returns the phone to her pocket and rushes away. 

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final project task list 11/14/17

-look at walk cycles w/head movement

Arthur theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkX6kfnWbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEoUhlesN9E (on vacation :48) (confident 1:08) (on phone 3:26) (speed walk 3:49) (flower child?? 3:56) (being chased 4:12) (tourist GOOD FOR HEAD LOOK 4:20) (emergency 4:27) (looking at art 4:30)

angles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEoUhlesN9E

front side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npuotif7zNM

just because it looks nice:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ffy-YwybA

Becker walk/run tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6aVz0Acx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggdbxTJPG4

-take reference pictures for walk cycle*

-draw 8 poses*

-rotoscope pick up phone*

-import images and video

-draw walk cycle frames*

-draw video frames

*by end of next class 11/16/17

notes:

how much can slow down before frames are noticeable? “chunky”

what is on the phone that causes speed up??

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11/9/17

Today we worked with AR and we also used our walk cycles in real life video. It was kind of hard for me to understand at first because I couldn’t understand what was being said (audio processing doesn’t like multiple auditory stimulus of equal volume) but once I had one on one it made sense and it’s really cool! I tested out some of the sample trigger images on aurasma and it was interesting to see how brands used the images. 

The other project was a little difficult because I couldn’t figure out how to insert keyframes like Im used to doing in animate cc. Also I moved WAY too much in my video.

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axolotl walk cycle work 11/8/17

I was just about done when I realized that the back arm should not be going in front of the tail, so I had to go back and fix that and then copy the 2 frames that applied to to replace every 8th frame. Then I doubled up so that the walk is a bit more seen and a little slower. I wasn’t able to put it on the faculty drive though because it says I need version 8 or higher? I also need to put my rotoscope on there I totally blanked and forgot to last class. doi

Also I started thinking about what I might want to do for the final. Originally, I wanted to do a rotoscope of a cartwheel and “pause” the video by double/triple/whatever the frames to point out specific points of the cartwheel, like pointed legs and strong arms- sort of an instructional. While I was working on Spaz (my axolotl) I played the animation with half the frames doubled up and half not and it was interesting to me because it looked like Spaz was taking a leisurely stroll and then speeding up as he noticed something. So maybe I’ll do a rotoscope mixed with a cartoon walk cycle to have a subject walking, called to attention (maybe checking their phone or being spoken to) and then having them speed up. 

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11/7/17 Walk Cycles

Start walk cycles today was daunting. I know how difficult it is to make things realistic, and learning how much I needed to watch for today definitely cemented the complexities. I understood the little blob man once I had the guidelines to use and Blyth pointed out that he was sliding a bit. I’m trying to translate this cycle into my character, an upright axolotl, but it’s proving to be tricky. Axolotls do not have the type of legs we do so trying to define the creatures legs with where a “heel” would be is proving difficult. I’m thinking I might redesign my character so he can wear shoes, at least for now while I’m still learning. Maybe a little bowtie, just to really get across that he’s no ordinary axolotl now. 

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axolotl “walk” cycle

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November 2nd, 2017

12:30-We’re rotoscoping today, which I’m super excited about! Since I learned about it, I’ve been so intrigued by it. 

idk 1:30ish maybe- I took a little video spinning in my chair and imported it into animate cc and then i started drawing every five frames. I already kind of knew I would like rotoscoping and I am having a lot of fun of it! 2- Once I was done doing every five frames, I created a new layer and drew the background in a gray. Right now it shows the lines of the two layers intersecting, but that’s because I want to go back in and do more in between frames and details before I fill in the shapes. I’m interesting in going back in later and having some of the frames lines lighter or darker or just one section, like one frame head, next frame body, etc. 

2:11- i started going back in to add more details like a line for my nose and a line for my eyelashes. im not sure how the eyelashes are going to work though because they are so tiny...

2:26- yeahhh looking at it I hate the nose anywhere it isnt profile. goodbye to that! or maybe i come back in with a small brush if I’m feeling motivated

2:35 took a short break. 

I am definitely a mouse and keyboard person. 

2:53- I’m saving a version like this where it’s unfilled in case I want to come back and work on details but now I’m going to make a new version as well that is filled so i can see it with the background :)

3:05- I started filling and realized pretty darn quickly that ALL MY SHAPES ARE OPEN. So I’ll have to close my shapes before I do too much more. It looks really neat not completely filled and over a fake background though.

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DSLR’s, depth of field, aperture, shutter

VIDEOS:

I’m not going to pretend that I soaked in that first video (DSLR camera), because I didn’t. I think I understand, but probably I’ll have to watch the video again with captions/transcript to have it really sink in. 

How digital color works video: I’ve read a lot and watched a lot about this topic before and it still blows my minds every time. Color theory is so neat, and the way that light works is amazing. I love that we (humankind I guess) figured this out! It’s so cool! The way we perceive color by it’s surrounding is so interesting and a little confounding. I think it’s weird how yellow is created in light, whereas with paint you can’t mix to make the primary colors. Also it’s crazy how all the colors/lights make white, but no light makes black. I like how this video talked about it’s informations applications to photoshop. 

Aperture:

Yeah, I didn’t know what this was. I only know the word aperture from a video game company name I think? I didn’t know what this was or what F-stop was, but it makes sense and is clearly really useful! (dollarshave club ad was random tho)

Depth of field:

The first video talked a lot about different options and variable and that’s really helpful. 

I liked this one’s visuals, that was really helpeful. I’m a little confused as to why the bigger the number the smaller the aperture? 

Shutter Speed:

SO this one the bigger denominator the more details you see I think? This was more of just demos than explanation and it seemed like in the 1/30 you saw blurs and stuff and just a stream as water but as you got to 1/4000 you could see lots of the frames and stopping at any moment you could see individual droplets.  I liked the little warning they put for indoor lighting, that’s something I feel a lot of beginners would get frustrated with trying to troubleshoot.

Overall, I honestly had a hard time watching these because photography is pretty much one of the only art forms (here anyway) that I don’t have as much interest in. Most of it made sense to me though!

SIMULATORS:

Okay the click-to-focus feature thing is SUPER well done. Literally any pieces could be focused on, even ones that, to me, would make sense to have as the focus. 

The second simulator took me a bit to understand, but it definitely helped me get the concepts more. 

In general Im glad the simulators were include because they helped the videos make way more sense. 

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October 19th, 2017

,,12:30-12:45- finish scene two, cat head swivel

12:46- start scene 3

Note: if I copy from previous scene in group, group items can’t be moved individually (duh silly self)

maybe I just do a million scenes and put them together? that seems a lot easier in this moment.

1:32- halfway through lip lick, break.

2:10- finished scene 4, importing into premiere 

3:00- take break. come back tonight. and tomorrow. and early tuesday. 

backed up onto google drive

TO DO:

sound in premiere

cat body scene 1

insert bird scene 1

export scene 1 as image sequence

 import scene 1 into premiere

10_23_17

bird wings scene 2

bird wings scene 5

cat pupils scene 5 

table + flower pot scene 5

scene 6 cat scratch at table, table leaning towards-bird cage sliding, table leaning towards-flower pot tip fall

scene 9 cat head hit, zoom out cat fall

scene10 bird sit sing, hand in, zoom in bird sunglasses