3 posts tagged “animation”
Good! :
- My lunch! Let me show you it:
It consists of: quinoa, red lentils, black lentils, garbanzo beans, broccoli, white mushrooms, toasted sesame seeds, nori flakes, a little bit of ground flax, and a little bit of soy sauce. Yum. I am eating it as I type!
- I picked a topic for my Art of Research project! woo!
- Visiting friends tonight!
- Yesterday I learned how to use power tools. I now possess knowledge of how to use a band saw, a drill press, and a lathe. I am most excited about the lathe. It seems like my kind of tool. It and I have an understanding.
- Thomas and I will have been together for 2 years tomorrow. Pretty neat!
- I sort of hate to keep yanking things from Drawn!, but they featured another thing that I thought was really amazing and wanted to share. It's an animation made of paintings done on walls, graffiti style. It was done by an Italian street artist called Blu. Click here to watch it on his vimeo page. It is massively impressive.
Bad! :
- Working in the [um I don't know what it's called... the power tool room?] at school and inhaling large amounts of sawdust makes my nose all congested and dry. That is an especially bad thing for me because a dry inner-nose = nosebleed city. I woke up last night with a minor one. Maybe I should get some of that dumb nasal spray.
- While I will get to see Jeff and Ruth, I will not get to see Tommi, who will only be around during the time slot of my digital illustration class. :(
- Sunday was the stupidest driving day ever. I don't want to type out the whole thing, but just know that it sucked and that AAA is the Mario to my Princess Toadstool.
Neutral! :
- My hairs are getting long and I feel like I should cut them?
What's up right now:
But before I go, here is something I just saw and enjoyed greatly... another stop-motion clay Adam and Eve story (the first one appearing in this here post), this one done by Nick Hilligoss:
Some day I'll make my own stop-motion film. Maybe then I will be able to shut up about this stuff.
I am building a millipede! Today I used the laser cutter to make something more substantial than the little keychainswe made during the lasercutting demo, and it was fun and educational. There were some difficulties with the process (my sheet of acrylic was warped so the laser didn't cut evenly and the acrylic was re-melting together in places etc) but in the end it all worked out and now my milliede body is coming together. I'll show you when it's finished.
Yesterday I was at school from 8:00am to 6:30pm working on my drawing concepts final, which is a 3'x5' drawing.
(This is my "I have been at school for 10 hours" face:
I got it mostly done. I am working with ink, and I had a bit of a disaster on my hands this morning when I unrolled it to find that in many places the ink had not dried completely when I'd rolled it up to take it home the previous evening, and it was stuck to itself all over the place. There were some little tears here and there but nothing too terribly horrible and I was able to cover most of it up by re-inking it. A second disaster came, though, when I spilled some acid-green ink on my bedroom carpet and my pants :(. It didn't come out of either very well. Fortunately none of it spilled on the drawing, which was mere inches away and which was sort of all I cared about anyway. Score.
My floor, currently:
Let me tell you, IPS Weld-On #4 For Joining ACRYLIC is the shit. It is joining that acrylic up like no other. And it doesn't even get my hands sticky when I clumsily stick my fingers in it. It dries so fast that when it touches my hands it creates a cool sensation and then disappears completely, almost instantly, leaving my skin just slightly drier. I don't know if it's absorbing into my skin or just plain drying, but I like it. Yay chemicals!
Yeah, dude. Making progress on the finals.
One more week, four more classes, four more days.
The Iron Giant is a good movie. Have you seen it? I've been getting into watching a ton of animated movies lately. You should rewatch Bambi. It is am-a-a-zing. That kind of animation drawing just doesn't happen anymore. And the storytelling is perfect. There is just the right amount of talking--which is to say, not very much. Kind of like No Country for Old Men. Ha, there's a comparison for you.
I'll leave it at that.
