Thursday, March 30, 2017

plausible impossible

Hi everyone this is James. I am about to  tell you about a few clips from disney  and tell you how this could happen  but is still imposable.


First lets talk about this picture.  in  this picture Mickey is walking through  a mirror. This is posable in the cartoon world because characters are able to use mirrors and on rare occasion black holes as a means of travel.  But in  the real  world this is not possible because in the real world you cant walk through  glass.


In this picture the king card is fighting Mickey using two heads. This is plausible because  in the cartoon  world cards can become animated.  Also, the king card has two heads so why can't he use this fact to help him fight. In the real word this is impossible because inanimate objects cannot come to life.


Now lets talk about this picture.  Here you cant see it but Mickey is using a fountain pen like a gun to fight of an army of playing cards. This is plausible because in the cartoon world you can use objects like pens as guns. but in  the real world this is not possible because there is no way you  could get enough pressure to do any real damage besides staining someone's clothes.



Now in this picture the cards are throwing their symbols at Mickey. this is plausible because in the cartoon world on rare occasion drawn objects can leave the paper they were drawn on and interact with the cartoon world. this is not  possible because in the real world drawings cannot leave the paper they were drawn on.

Now for my last example. In this picture Mickey is being shuffled into  a deck of cards.  In the cartoon world this is plausible because in some 2-D animated cartoons the character can become completely flat for a short time which would allow this to happen. However, in the real world this is not possible because in the real world you cannot become completely flat.

Friday, March 24, 2017

personal blog post




Hi everyone this is James Riddle and I'm about to tell you about my snowflakes animation  project. For this project we had to draw the outline of the snow flakes using the cv curve tool. The pre-production process was to learn how to complete this project. As I worked, I followed instructions on Google Classroom to help me understand the items in the project.

Along the way, I learned how to animate in Maya. Specifically, I learned how to make something look like glass. I used that knowledge to create a window in my project, something I had not done before. Professionally speaking, I asked table mates to provide feedback on my project. Unfortunately, I got behind on this project. I spent lots of time after school trying to complete the assignment.

If I were to do the assignment again, I would try to work more quickly so I would stay on target for when the assignment was due. I liked the way the color codes turned out for the snowflakes and the frame and would choose to do that the same way.

This project has improved my time management skills. I learned that the longer a project takes to complete, the more impact it has on my grade as well as personal time.

Friday, March 10, 2017

movie trailer project

Hi everyone this is  James Riddle and I am about to tell you about my movie trailer project for entertainment  video. Basically we had to chose a high school themed movie  and use that  movie's trailer as a template to figure out our scenes. Before we could film  we had to chose a movie, my group chose a movie called Fist Fight, get permission from our teacher, create a story board using scenes from the trailer, and then figure out where we were going to film our scenes. After that we were able to film our video.

 First we used our story board to figure out where we were going to film and then we started to  film  our  video.  Unfortunately we id have a few setbacks along the way,  one of our group members caught  the  flu and we had to use members from  other groups for a lot  of our scenes. Also, I unfortunately was not able to finish editing my version of the video.

Some things I learned were how to  add color filters to different clips, this was very  helpful when I needed to correct the white balance of  a few scenes. Also I learned it is very difficult to  perfectly line up audio from a movie trailer to a different person due to the fact that every one talks at different speeds.

One thing I will do differently is next time I will edit the video  as we get our clips. Also, I will figure out how to  use  video filters in my transitions. This way I will be able to get the editing done on time and the video filters  will be useful if I need to put information in a specific background.

Another thing I will use next time is the feed back we got in  the video. This will help me edit our next project. Also, I will use similar transitions from  this project in our next video.

I will recomend this project for next year but get them turned in on time.