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Experimental Music Clip

In Jane's class today we tried making some experimental animation using the filmstrip technique with Photoshop and Premiere. It was heaps of fun to do, and quite quick to animate as well. 

Here are the results!!!

Kasee's Vanilla Blink

Based on the Richard Williams blink, but the close is held for two frames and there are five frames before and after the blink as opposed to his three. I quite like it. But I haven't really experimented with the bottom eyelid yet.

The ending pixelates a bit on youtube, sorry!

Blinky Blinky

Dreamy blink =)

Enjoy!!!

WIP EAP #2

Here we go again~!

Here's my WIP for my 2nd EAP.

WIP for Narrative.

So here is something I have been working on for my narrative. Work in Progress!!!
Might upload some more WIPs later this week. 

Also got some info from Frank's blog in relation to exporting from flash as a png sequence then putting it together in VirtualDub. So I tried that out. 

Toy Story 3 Review

Yesterday I saw Toy Story 3 and I have to tell you, it was A-MAE-ZING!

 Wow. Pixar. Just keeps getting better and better. Their animation software just keeps getting better and better! Ahh how I would love to work for them...

 

Back to the movie (may contain spoilers...) 

 

Moments I loved

* At the beginning when Andy's original toys were discussing what happened to the other toys, how they got sold to yard sales etc. And the moment when they said Bo was gone, Heartbreaking!

 

* Buzz and Jessie's dance. Fantastic! When Jessie went around Buzz and through his arms, it was so fluid and fantastic!

 

* When the toys got sent to the dump and they knew there was no way out. They all just held hands and prepared for the end. A beautiful moment! That almost had me in tears.

* I also loved that Pixar didn't give away alot of the story in the trailers. I had no idea about who Lotso was, and that he would be the villain of the story. So I really loved finding that out. 

*When Andy handed his toys over to Bonnie. He was so reluctant and you could really relate to his emotions. But Bonnie was a fantastic little girl to receive his toys. 

*Ken and how they kept making fun of him being a 'girls toy'. Barbie and Ken were fantastic. And who knew Barbie was so smart?

*Also, slipping in Totoro. Genius!

The Day and Night short before the film was also great! I love the idea of 3D animation within a 2D animation. The sound effects and scenarios they chose to convey emotions was amazing. Totally loved it!

Tangled Trailer!

First official trailer is out for the next Disney movie, Tangled! I am so excited for this!
I love the way the hair is animated in this.