Anna's Great Fall

I'm so proud of my students! They came up with this short stopmotion this afternoon. They did such a great job!

garbage day bwah!

Just made a funny and quick gif. I thought it was pretty funny.


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This is the original of the two videos.





lols

Fun Day and a Corks

Woohoo. Finally had my video camera in public :D. Yesterday, Val, Jamie and I went all over the city. The first stop was Gerbaud. It turned out to kind of be a bust since they didn't have the Gerbaud breakfast which was the entire reason we went. Oh well, saw some amazing street musicians!

Hazzah! Love street performers. Saturday was basically spent travelling from one place to another, eating or drinking something and then moving on to the next place to do the same. It was a great day, even though I was kind of down for part of it. No idea why : /. Anyways, fun day and very relaxing. Definitely need to do it again soon. On a side note, Val, Jamie and I have decided that Tuesdays will be our creative day where we go to a cafe and just work on artistic things! I'm thinking of making some flip books for ATCs (art trading cards). It's a thing that our friend Emily told us about. BTW, Emily expect one comin your way :D.

And last but not least, I made another animation a little bit ago. I enjoy them because they take such little time so I might just make a bunch of really short ones. Enjoy!

Nothing particularly incredible but I think they're really fun :D. Give it a try in your free time!

First Animation In Budapest

Well, I finally caved in and did my first animation. It took me about 15 minutes and I mainly did it to fill the need to do SOMETHING. So here it is. I'll start getting some much better one's done when I spend more time on them and actually have a consistent source of light (I/E not the sun).

It's very short but hey what can ya expect? I'll work on another one probably this week or this weekend. Get something done that is more presentable. It all depends on if I get an idea for something or not. If I do it'll be up here soon!

Learning to Animate: The Animator's Survival Kit

I got this book called The Animator's Survival Kit for Christmas this past year. I have been meaning to read it but have not had the chance since it accidentally got put into storage. Anyways, I thought that I would start reading it after I found it and was totally blown away by the first few pages! I have heard from other people and read on blogs that it was an absolute necessity but never really took it to heart. I think I will now. I feel as if I will learn more from this than the 4 years I had in college! I'm going to continue to read it but as a VERY quick exercise I decided to try my hand at a quick animation to see how it would work out. I made it into a GIF but couldn't post it so here was what the process looked like.

Update: I did another animation. This one was not nearly as jumpy as the first and that's why I'm uploading this one and not the other one.

A Short Animation

I worked on a short animation for about an hour today. The rendering took FOREVER so I didn't want to fix anything with it today. It's not perfect but I think it came out pretty well. :D

Impatience

I've started getting increasingly impatient to move to Budapest, by the way I'm moving to Budapest. There is so much to do before we leave but it seems to be completely set up as far as a job and living. Me and Val will be leaving in August and before we leave we need to get in some teaching hours, finish our TEFL certification, clean up our living area in preparation for leaving, AND find a flight, which right now is proving more difficult than we originally thought. We looked up some flights before and found some for 1200 a piece..... not bad but not great either. The problem is now they've jumped up to 1600!!! This is pretty concerning considering the dramatic change. I think for now we have to sit and wait for the price to hopefully sink down during a discount period. Besides flight trouble we have a lot to get prepared for before August. Val's sister is getting married on top of everything else we have to do and we need to prepare for it, even though it's going to be a small wedding there's still a lot to do for it.
However, on the bright side, we are ready to move to Budapest and begin our teaching. We've picked up this handing language program called Pimsleur's Hungarian. It was pretty pricey for the one we got but seems well worth the price as we learn more and more. We can't wait to meet new people and have the experience of traveling abroad. It seems that there are a lot of other Americans who have gone to Hungary and generally been happy with their lives and experiences there.

Finally, Val and I will be making a short animated film so be looking for that in coming posts.

First time poster...

Ok. So this is my first blog post. This blog is all about things that I'm doing in CGI. I'll try and post some stuff to help anyone else that may be looking for help. I'll post plenty of pictures. My first couple of posts will be some videos that I made in my Computer Animation class last semester.
Enjoy :D


Software I'm using right now: Hexagon 2.2