The Last and Final

Hello fellow classmates and welcome to Thomas and I's final blog post. We are sadly no where close to being finished and we can't seem to find a way to export what we have from the program we are using so, don't expect too much with the whole presentation thing.

But hey! This project is based on personal achievement not completeness so we are technically good! 

Alright so this past week Thomas and I have both been muy muy sick and not really on top of our game, so we didn't get much done. I am to shy to add lyrics to the song so that will not be happening :)

I did, however, write another back up song!! Yay! This one is a little more sad so I think it will go better with our story line. I'm sorry 'If all else fails use this,' you just weren't sad enough for this. Depressing really, you had so much potential.

On Thomas' side of the spectrum, he has really improved his drawings on the drawing board!! And he did the BA part where the chick concurs her monster. Here's the thing getting chopped down like a pro.

     

Dos Semanas

Le Sente 

(That is Italian for "The Feels")

I made a Time Laps! (Just ignore the fat hand, the horrible quality, and the horrible drawings)

That's our plan, and I know you can't really see it but it's the thought that counts right? Plus I wrote out our story line last week so just refer to that and imagine it in drawing form. Anywho, we've made mucho progress. I wrote lyrics to our song and it goes along with our story line... kind of. I am shy however, so I'm on the edge about actually putting them into the backup song. 

I also wrote a second song! It is all on the piano and I am very proud of it, but I haven't found a sufficient recording device to use for it. If I don't find one, I will have to import the sound using a keyboard and my computer, which I hate doing being the sound from a grand piano sounds so much better, but oh well.

In the animation department, Thomas has finished almost half of the video, and it is awesome! Here is a short clip of the video so far. (Ignore the noise of Thomas' fam bam in the background).

In the brain department, Thomas and I have learned that having one computer sucks, especially when the non artistic person has it. However, we've also learned that Thomas computer supports the program and the drawing board! Progress people. Progress. Here is a picture of our girl in the middle of her battle doing some awesome kunfu stuff. Hardcore right?

Week two.. Oh the struggle..

We have found a great anime program to use! Yay! It's called Synfig Studio and it allows you do many cool features with your drawings.

Thomas and I have learned a lot about it over the past week. The major thing we learned, though, was how to do cut out animation. This is when you individual parts of the character and make them move separately.

Ex: You draw an arm, you can move it around to make it look like it's waving, and the program animates it all for you, you just have to draw the arm.

This is a little thing we put together using cut animation. (If the video doesn't work the first time just re-load the page)

We also came up with our storyline! It is going to be a story of a young teenage girl who is fighting an internal battle against herself. This will be portrayed in the young girls brain. Her brain will be in the shape of  prison cell and she will be shackled to the wall. Monsters will come and fight her and she will fight back and win. With every strike against the monster, the smaller it gets and the more transparent the prison cell will become. Very symbolic, we know we know.

Here are our three main ideas for the monster.

 

And here is the girl Thomas drew with his amazing drawing skills (I drew that horrible face thing obviously):

First Blog Update

WEEK UNO

We have created a list and titled it "Things we need in order to not get an F." On this list is the following:

1. Drawing board (This Thing)
2. Animation program
3. Music program
4. Creativeness (Like This Guy Has) 
5. A brain (This Thing)
6. Another brain 
7. A computer

As you can see, that is a long list. Do not fret though, my trusted colleagues, we have checked many of those off. Our dearly beloved Mr. Mason provided the drawing board, my trusted apple products provided us with Garage Band (This Cool Music Making App), and my amazing father provided me the computer. The brains are slowly developing and our creativeness is a bipolar factor that comes and goes. Animation programs are being researched currently, but if we fail to find one, we will use paint and the video programs provided by the school. 

In the past week, we also finished part of the "If all else fails use this" song. Here is the song do far if you would like to listen to it. 

So what have we learned so far? 

• Making music is not easy and is very tedious.
• That SoundCloud is amazing and has tons of free music.
• How to use the drawing board.
• How to create blogs.

Our next step is to start the video. By the 4th of May, we plan on having an animation program and a few drawings finished and having lyrics to the backup song.
 

 

Le Initial Blog

Hello many people of Ms. Mann's class, and welcome Ms. Mann, to the wonderful blog of Thomas and Jasmyn!!

For our genius hour project, Thomas and I decided to combine our amazing passions to create a short animation video. Why do this, you ask? Thomas, as many of you know, is an amazing drawer, so he will be supplying the pictures while Jasmyn, a musical person, will be supplying the music.

Here is the video that inspired Thomas and myself to do this project. It's very cool and I highly suggest you watch it.

Our idea for this animation film is to:

1. Animate a woman or man dancing a contemporary dance. (Of course, this is very difficult to do and with the given amount of time, this will probably not happen.)
2. Portray a man trapped inside his own head trying to break free of himself.
3. Create a world where technology and industry rule.

So what are our goals for this project? 

To make a successful and meaningful short animation that has some good music, to learn how to use animation software's, and to draw some awesome pictures and create some amazing music.

So how will we measure our success, I hear you question?

The quality of the video. If we did enough frames/second to make it flow, the music is decent and fits the story, and how well the story line is.