Article Review Blog-Video

Article Review

The story that I read consisted of two women who were raped and then one of the women was murdered. The article tells how the man hurt them with knifes and physically abused them. The strength of this article was the amount of detail that was put in. But the weakness of the story would have to be that the amount of detail was disturbing to a certain point. The story is not an argument at all. It is just a man reviewing a news story. A critique that could be done would be give less graphic details. As a news reporter I will use this article as a reference when writing the written stories to my videos.

www.pulitzer.org/winners/eli-sanders 

Professional Article Review-Animation

MAYA SOFTWARE

In this article the author speaks about how he was introduced to Maya in his college 3D animation class and how the Maya software became so popular for its neat tools, and quick shortcuts. The author doesn't necessarily have an argument he really is just explaining the purpose of Maya and some of it's features it involves. The author speaks of how the key frame feature in Maya makes the animations very clear. What the author struggled with was finishing the article. He only included 3 things about Maya even thought there are many more than that. The strength would be the detail he discussed about with the features he did list. His general conclusions was just saying to go get Maya and try it out and if you don't like it than delete it but if you do like it go take classes and learn how to experiment with it. My one critique about the article would be to add more information about the program instead of giving vague information. I feel like the explanation that he gave about the program would inspire people to go give Maya a try. The article gave me different tips that I can use at school when using Maya!

http://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/autodesk-maya-animation-features-worth-knowing 

Professional project review-Video

Professional Project Review-Review

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/young-gifted-year-phenom-flying-squirrel-takes-surfing-41432457 

This featured story was covering chance the rapper who is an independent song writer. He makes a unique style of music that represents freedom through a mixture of R&B, Hip-Hop, Rap, and gospel. The video speaks about his journey from starting in a public library in his home town to hitting the leader boards repeatedly. The project is done by Robbin Roberts who is a well respected anchor in america who has been on the daily show good morning america for 12 years! What I would take away from her work would be the different edits that she applies to her work. One element I have already learned is the right interviewing skills. What Robbin did well in the interview with Chance was that she made him feel comfortable saying what he really felt. This work is flawless in my eyes so I would think it needs no improvement.  

Technical Tutorial-Animation

Technical tutorial 

The skill I will teach in this tutorial is how to render in Adobe After affects. The purpose of the blog is to inform student's on how to use simple tools in after affects. You don't necessarily need this skill unless you are using this adobe tool.

The first step to rendering your animation out would be to import your file into after affects.





















Next you move the file into the composition box and doing this turns it into a composition or an animation.












When you have all of your key frames set to your liking you need to send it to the render que

After it is sent to the render que you can render it out with ease by clicking the render button (make sure that once you render it, it should be sent to your desktop!) Once you click the render button it will start to load and then once it is completely rendered out it should make a little twinkle noise to say it is completed! 

Professional Project Review-Animation

Profesional Project Review

The scope of the movie The Incredibles was mainly to give kids the entertainment of a movie. The story of the movie is a secret family of superheroes. The dad has the power of super strength, the mom has a power of super strech, the oldest daughter has a power of invisibility, the oldest son has the power of super speed, and the youngest son has a power of shape shifter. The story is told about a boy who worshiped the dad (bob.) Bob ignored him and the young boy became angered and when he grew up he became a super villain and tried to battle the whole family. To sum up the story quick the family wins because good always defeats evil. From the movie I will take away the extreme detail to the characters faces and hope to put these details into my maya projects in the future. One element that I have already used before that is in the movie would just be the 3D animation. The creator of the movie did the motion of the movie very well and I can tell that the project took a long time. There really is nothing bad with this project since it is a professional project done by pixar. 

http://www.pixar.com/features_films/THE-INCREDIBLES-

Personal project blog: Animation

 Story Project Blog 

The scope of this project was to perfect our skills with a walk cycle, puppet tool, ball bounce,  and a multi-plane. My process of making this final project was first using a story board to lay out my plan of the scene clips and such. After planning out my project I worked on all the skills for two weeks to make my project the best it could be. What I learned along the way was how to fix simple mistakes and how to scan drawings into my computer. What I would different next time is I would use illustrator instead of photoshop to draw everything because illustrator makes everything look crisper. What I would do the same would be the general idea of the project which was a chase scene. The experiences that I will take away from this project will be the time management. I learned that I need to come in to finish the project and that I need to use my time wisely in class. 

Tutorial-Video

"How to" Blog:Video 

The skill for this blog that I will teach is how to make a clip slower or faster for a nice effect. The purpose for this "How to" is to teach someone how to make a clip more interesting. They could either make it slower and give it a sense of humor or make it faster to save time. The intended audience of this tutorial is mainly kids in my class because some of them ask and some of them go on google so I am trying to save their time by just telling them to go to my blog. 

Step 1-Select a clip of choice to make slower or faster 

Step 2-Right click your selected clip and scroll up to Speed Duration

Step 3-This little box will pop up and you change the percentage. Right now it is set to 100%. To slow it you should lower it to about 50% and to speed it up you should set it higher like 120%.