Animation process

I have spent the past 2 weeks completely the pain staking process of drawing each movement of my character in order to convey movement on the screen. I spent this weekend in the animation studio filming my animation and converting it to begin editing. In the process of filming everything went smoothly. It wasn't until I converted it to a quick time file that it sped up my frames per second. My second disappointment was that the quality when it converted to a quick time wasn't as crisp as it was in frame thief. I maintained the resolution told to us and checked before I converted but for some reason these changes happened. Hopefully I can resolve some of these issues in editing so that I wont have to re shoot the only film over again. I'm excited to see what everyone else's animations look like!

Chapter 8 A whole new mind: Play

I recently saw a piece on the news about a laugh group and literally laughed at the idea of it being that necessary to laugh everyday. After reading this chapter and trying myself to laugh more I can attest that the results are true. The older we get the more we push the idea of play to the side. I had heard about the use of Lego's in offices in order to get people thinking more creatively and kinda always thought that if I was put in that position I would think it was a joke. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how important it is for us as adults to maintain that youthful quality in play. Thinking back to my imagination as a child, I can remember all of the stories and characters I can up with while playing. This led me to believe, why can't this be translated now in our "adult" work. My resistance to giving up the idea of having fun while at work as once again led me down a more creative path. Using play in our everyday life seems like a necessity now. I think we as professionals should be less serious and more playful in our everyday life. Not only should our daily checklist of necessities be sleep, eat, and the usual things, but I believe that play should be added as well. Maintaining a playful attitude throughout some part of our life can most definitely reduce the stress that has taken over most people. Bringing this into the workplace would be a major stress reliever and I think reacquaint people with the idea of why they are doing what they are doing int he first place again. This is something that I think gets lost in the hustle of everyday life and everyday business.

A Whole New Mind Chapter 7 Empathy

This chapter further proved to me the importance of empathy in everyday life, especially in the work place. Often time throughout my educational career I have been told to keep my emotions on the back burner and to get the work done. This is good advice in staying focused, but I never fully believed that it was necessary to leave all emotion behind in completely assignment. I guess that may be why I chose an expressive path to go down. I cant believe that the importance of empathy in health care wasn't recognized earlier. I would consider being empathetic to be a major quality needed by all physicians. I strongly believe that be attuned to the emotions of those around us can only strengthen the bond between human interaction, and in the case of the workplace, strengthen the team-like structure that is necessary to be successful. People react when someone is being nice to them, a cold reaction is not going to receive well. It seems like common sense to me, but I have found more and more that people seriously lack this quality. Hopefully with more and more research noting its importance, more people will make the effort attune themselves to being more empathetic.

Animation II

I was surprised to see how easy it is to capture your image with the camera and put it on the computer. I pretty certain that I will still with traditional paper animation for my project as I already have an idea, but I still tried out different techniques. So far I have experimented with paint and the illusion of water. I have been thinking about possibly incorporating one of those elements into my animation on top of what I chose as my main technique. I am excited to see what happens next and get to work.

Chapter 6 Symphony

A Whole New Mind Chapter 6 Symphony

I found the information in this chapter to be very correct in today's society. None of the information here was new to me. I think coming from a background in art makes these things more apparent. We are trained and naturally creative, this is why we are here. For me, the idea of looking at the big picture and crossing boundaries are second nature when it comes to art making. It is a crucial tool in my existence as an artist. It's about time it be a crucial tool for everyone. Thinking outside the box, crossing into other domains, looking at the big picture are all tools that can be used in succeeding in your task as well as making it more interesting in the end. It is unbelievable how quickly someone can be trained to look the correct way, as in the case of the author and his 5 day art class. It is so simple and so easy and so basic yet people still don't recognize its importance to everyone. Hopefully as time goes forward and technology and the role of art in society changes, this will become second nature to everyone. I think a change like that could make a big difference for society in the long run.