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End of the year reflection

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I learned so many new things about Animation and I acquired many different skills to go along with my newfound knowledge.  There were many projects this year that I struggled with, actually, I struggled with almost every project we did this year. I think this year was a really great learning opportunity for me. Technology I learned a lot more about the 3D modeling system called Maya. I learned how to sculpt 3D objects, how to give 3D objects skeletons, and I learned how to animate things in Maya. I was not very good at animating in 3D because my computer kept glitching and I was not very good at painting weights. But I still learned how to apply all of the things that I learned to make a swimming fish. The fish that I made had a lot of glitches but it still swims so I count that as a win. This is how I advanced my technology skills this year. Collaboration, Communication, and Leadership This year we only had one group project and that was our stop motion animation project. I
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Kinetic typography

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The first thing I did for my project is pick out what audio I want to use with my kinetic typography. After spending many days trying to decide I chose to do Happier by Bastille. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mtbGedn1V4 I plan to use the first minute of the song not the entire thing. The next thing I will be doing is creating story boards for my project so I can plan out everything that I want my words to do. Once I have finished storyboarding I will animate every thing in after effects Here are some tutorials that I plan on using
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End of the year reflection

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Time Management One project that I really had to use time management with was my ghost going through walls project. When we were creating this project I had to leave for Florida and I missed three days of school. I learned how to use my time to my advantage and how to get things done under pressure. I ended up getting this project in on time and I did not completely hate the final product. This is important for the future for when my boss or someone above me wants me to get a certain amount of work done in a short amount of time.  Collaboration and Communication I learned how to effectively communicate my ideas with others and collaborate with a team to create my final video project in animation. In our most recent project I collaborated with my peers to create an animation short film. We worked together to create the concept and we put our heads and ideas together to make this project. We also communicated any problems we were having or scheduling issues with each other s
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Short Film

Our short film Our short film is called connected. It is about this girl named Alex and she is halfway through freshman year when this new kid Jaxon shows up. As soon as this kid shows up she started getting these strange dreams and Jaxon gets them as well. Jaxon confronts Alix and they and out that they're both getting the strange dreams. They decide to do some research and they come across a blog. This blog was written by a girl who experienced the same thing that Alix and Jaxon were experiencing with her brother. Alix becomes upset because her Aunt never told her that she had a brother so she dragged Jaxon to her house and confronted her Aunt. Her Aunt was shocked because they were never supposed to find each other. The tag line for this production was going to be don't take the pills but I changed it to they're hiding something from you. The log line for this film is g irl is connected to boy via dreams. One key element I incorporated into this film was when Jaxon an
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My Container project

Sketching First thing I did was I practiced sketching 3D labels on cans and other circular items. Then I picked what logo I was going to do. I decided to do a Fanta can but its the off-brand version and it just says soda. I sketched that logo and then decided to put it into photoshop. Photoshop I struggled really hard when it came to photoshop because I wanted to get the Fanta font but I could not find a similar font. So what I ended up doing was I found a layout of the font and screenshotted the individual letters and put them into my label one by one. After I got my letters in I outlined them with a white outliner and I tried to make the logo look similar to the anta logo. I had trouble making the leaves on the logo because I couldn't find a leaf that would work. I eventually just drew in the leaf and put text inside it like the Fanta logo. Maya After making my logo in photoshop I made a can looking object in Maya. That did not take me very long. After that,
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Balls

Video and Math The first thing we did for this project was create videos to base our animations on. We went to the loading dock of the school and we brought a tennis ball, bowling ball, and a golfball with us. We chose three people to drop the balls and we filmed them dropping the balls. Then we came back to the room and uploaded them to our computers. Then we put the videos into photoshop and marked all the frames where the ball reached its height in the bounce. Once we figured out where the ball reached its maximum height per bounce we figured out the height of the ball in an excel sheet.  Maya First thing we did was create each of our spheres. I made three spheres all similar to the sizes of a tennis ball, bowling ball, and golf ball. I found a golfball bump map on the internet and I applied it to my golf ball to make it look like a golf ball. I then found a tennis ball texture via google and I put that on my tennis ball but not as a bump map because it looked too weird a
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High school trailer

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Highschool Trailer We chose to do The Duff as our high school trailer. We chose it because it is a really funny movie and we thought that it would be fun to recreate it. We incorporated many important aspects of filming for example we tried out best to match up the shots with how they were in the actual trailer by getting the right angle and making the scene itself look authentic. We did our best to incorporate good audio by using a boom mic but that did not go well because we had a boom mic for some scenes and we didn't have a mic at all for others. So our audio did sound really weird throughout the entire trailer because of the mic. Pre Production and Production Our pre production mainly consisted of casting actors. It was really difficult to find actors who looked similar to the people in the trailer and that were available. We originally casted someone else as the jock but he couldn't make it to the filming sessions so we had to change our jock halfway through fi
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