Working on sketches.....

January 17, 2014

So I've been trying to work on sketches for my idea but I am still terrible at drawing houses, plus I'm drained from history of animation. But I'm going to try and fix them, hopefully tomorrow after I come home from work. I think I mostly need a ruler. Anyways, here's my idea:

I want to make a really cookie-cutter house with the white picket fence. And on the inside in the kitchen I want there to be blood in the sink and like a huge block of fat next to it, with bars of soap that look like the block. I really liked this idea I had for a story about people who make human soap. I think it would be really fun to animate and I would be really obsessed with it. So here's my timeline of work:

Saturday and Sunday: Fix sketches and make a blog post with the sketches.

Monday: Work 2-3 hours on the modeling as planned. Write a blog post about modeling in the animation lab after we're done working on it for however long it actually takes.

So Shelby out!

Class 1

January 15, 2014

I have found from just building random small things that I really like how you can get really creepy lighting.

The ominous effects that you can get even with simple textures I think is really cool and never using 3D animation software makes me feel really accomplished even though I essentially did nothing!! But it makes me really interested in how I can combine 3D effects animation or even a 3D world with stop motion characters. I think it's something I really want to try for the final project rather than 2D animation (since I have a whole semester of 2D character animation as well). I really like how Laika uses 3D animation to manipulate certain things that would be near impossible in stop motion alone and I really want to work on combining the two things, especially the lighting. I think playing around with lots of lighting is really going to help me, but I'm also excited to learn how to build things. I like that there are many more options with the medium and it's more fun than I thought it would be, all though the 70's looking textures are blinding. 

I think for project 1 I'm going to do something really pretty and happy looking on the outside and something really creepy on the inside because that's what I really like to do, combine the creepy and the cute. I think I might build some kind of cute cookie-cutter house that has the white picket fence and then some really crazy American Horror Story like world inside. I'm going to sketch out ideas and post it before I make any final decisions. And then I'll start building all of it and post more pictures. I'm probably going to bite off more than I can chew like normal but if I can get the software on my computer it will be much easier in the long run. Depending on my work load for other classes I have plenty of time to do something complicated, considering I'm not working nearly as much. (Well about as much but it's much more spaced out and every day but Wednesday I have time to work on things at least for a couple hours). Weekends are difficult but I have a lot of time on Friday so I should be able to build a lot of it. I'm actually pretty excited about it. 

Shelby