Animating Fast: aka, generating disturbing memes

Animating Fast

So I am now a contributor on our lovely class blog. As this is the second round of me being in Chris Perry's experiment, I figure now is a good time as any to restart my rant-blog about school.

The blog linked in this post is hopefully a repository of our knowledge. Check it out.

Dusty Celluloid Gem

This dry, staid account of the social and technological impact of man's favorite tool, explosives, is enough to make me want to make a pie. It has a beautiful scene of domestic life cut with scenes of mountains being brought down.
EXPLOSIVES: Tools for Progress circa 1970.

Crowds, Particles, Muck, OH MY!

So, down to the wire again. Chris wants this thing out by December 15th for some festival submissions. We still have to hack out u5_14, the infamous crowd shot, so that means for me some painting of grime. Also, I have 3 more sky shots left on my plate. Oh gods of joy! Luckily the massive particle shot was ironed out and looks pretty good, I have to say. Oh but it will be nice to have this all FILM OUT.

One Offhand Comment

Said one thing and now I'm looking up pictures of water droplets on camera lenses. Will does a face-palm, Chris looks excited and happy. I wonder what I've just done.

First Final

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This was the first shot I painted custom sky for. The over-all cloud scheme was arrived at by me and Chris Bishop, one morning. The deal now is that I have to make things match the rest of the show a bit more. We got kind of carried away.

Back on the Ship!

Hey, it's been awhile, but I'm up to more shenanigans, so I've re-upped the Goodship, and its ready to set sail again, but with some passengers this time, mainly Will and Chris Perry. I am working on the infamous Tower 37, aka Uprising, aka Uprising at Tower 37. If you want some more, I dunno, useful updates as to the over-all production of the film, check out Chris's oft-neglected blog. Here I will mainly talk about clouds. Lots of clouds. I am doing "sky fixes" which pretty much means I am doing custom sky for an increasing amount of shots. I also am supposedly doing color correction. We'll see how that goes.

I spent an hour and a half talking to Chris Bishop about clouds. He painted the original skies and has been on Goodship Uprising from its inception. I've started to have dreams about clouds, this is how much this is part of my life now. Kind of scary. Anyway, I'm off into blue. Catch you all later.

Hey, don't worry, just breathe

I've been low-grade freaked out for the past month. None of this is going to change until I actually get there.