Collaboration take away Unlike animation, in video you have to collaborate on every project. We didn't always get to chose our groups so we had to learn to get along with others that we may not work with all the time. It was important to collaborate on ideas about story boarding and location. Being in e-Comm has taught me the skill of being able to talk and collaborate with people who don't have the same interest as me. Communication take away In video, I learned how to communicate with my group about what scenes we would film and when we would film them. It was important to communicate during projects, because sometimes you underestimate how long a project will take and you realize you won't be able to film it all in school, so you have to communicate and work out a time outside of school that will work for everyone. Being able to communicate with others has helped meet due dates and has also made the project run smoother. Technology take away At ...
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Technology take away At the beginning of this yer, I wasn't the best at animation. I would get frustrated because it seemed like everybody but me knew what to do and how to do it. I didn't understand the programs and would easily get frustrated. Since then, I have gotten a lot better at animation, not saying I'm amazing, but Im certainly better than when I started. What changed is that I started to take notes when my teacher was talking and I read the online tutorials closer. I would also look for video tutorials online to help me. Taking notes really helped me in the future because a lot of things we worked on in previous projects, we applied to later projects. I have learned how to render on both Maya and After Effect, how to create an explosion with mattes, how to bevel and emboss, add textures to objects to make them look realistic, and the most important: how connect to the server :) and many more. Collaboration take away In animation, we only really had one g...
Fire pit explosion For this project we were to take the skills we learned in the previous project to create an explosion of our own. I picked to do a fire pit explosion. We had to add all the SFX effects that we added last week, which were smoke, fire, the explosion, dust, smoke, and debris. First, I picked all the elements I wanted to put in my explosion. Then, I resized them so they would fit into the fire pit. I set key frames, so after the fire exploded the debris would follow later. I did this because during an explosion it doesn't all happen at once. You have the explosion, the fire, the debris, then the smoke. I learned how to use matte to make the edges not look so harsh and how to set key frames accordingly. I would keep the order in which everything exploded. Next time I would try and add more "glow" in the background to make it look more realistic. In general I liked how this project turned and I also liked the process of putting this project together. ...
The scope of the movie Despicable Me is about a man who is a super villain and wants to steal the moon, but his plans go sideways when he adopts three little girls he now has to take care of. An element from the movie that I would use in my work would be the use of color. Despicable Me had all kinds of different colors, from yellow minions to pink unicorns. An element used in this movie that I have learned is the walk cycle. I do not think this movie needs to be critiqued or improved because it is a good movie with a cute story line.
This professional article gives you detail about how to set key frames , move objects, render, and save. I didn’t see an example of any counter arguments because he just uses detailed explanations on how to render, save, move objects, and set key frames . A strength he has would be explaining very clearly on how to use After Effects. A weakness could be not showing us how to start the project. Although he is good at explaining, it would be helpful if he gave us a little more information at the start. The author just wants us to have fun with the project. My critique would be not having enough information about how to start the project. https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/tutorials.html