The term fan can go pretty far, from being someone who really likes a program or fad, to buying every known purchasable object, and glorifying it in your shrine aka your room. I'd say I'm less of a fanatic, and more of a casual fan of things, one of them being the recent show steven universe. I've done a few fan pieces for the show, and I think its really a prime example of where television and cartoons is heading for kids in America. The show has everything from action to comedy, to even accepting others as they are no matter what gender they are nor what gender they like. It's truly an innovative show in all regards.
The shows backgrounds are beautiful, and has big artists such as Sam Bosma, and Kevin Dart working on them. The animation is very well executed, and is even flashed out sometimes in storyboards, just to make sure the creator and storyboard artists vision comes across. It's an example of what art and shows should be like and moving towards. It's not made to make money, but to tell a story that has positive messages, and beautiful art. I'm am a fan of the show, and highly recommend it.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Youtube Inspiration and motivation
So my inspirations on youtube goes pretty far back, I've worked on Bravest Warriors which was incredibly fun and amazing, I've done work for Machinima, which was also unique and gave me great experience with filming and story telling. But the show that started my peak and interest into everything started between ego raptors early work, and the show Red vs Blue.
Red vs blue is one of the earliest concept of machinima, and became incredibly popular over the years after its initial release. It used in game character models from halo, and voices that replaced the original audio over them. It used witty dialogue and banter to tell a strange yet interesting story about two factions, red and blue, to fight one another. It was through this show i began Machinima myself, and wound up working for the company doing similar shorts. After a while my film work felt limited, and i couldn't capture everything I imagined. So I saw cartoons were becoming popular on youtube, and I began to take up drawing in the pursuit to learn animation.
Ego raptor was one of the many animators on youtube that caught my eye, his strange sense of humor was very modern, and overall just natural and goofy. I always laughed because of the circumstances he'd place his characters in such as the short poke-awesome, a pokemon parody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrHG-JO8gIGk&has_verified=1
After I lean red the fundamentals of drawing at Ringling, I took it upon myself to make my senior thesis an animated 2D short, and was very happy I was able to accomplish what i sought to do for so long. I plan on continuing animation after school, and pushing my skills and knowledge even further.
Red vs blue is one of the earliest concept of machinima, and became incredibly popular over the years after its initial release. It used in game character models from halo, and voices that replaced the original audio over them. It used witty dialogue and banter to tell a strange yet interesting story about two factions, red and blue, to fight one another. It was through this show i began Machinima myself, and wound up working for the company doing similar shorts. After a while my film work felt limited, and i couldn't capture everything I imagined. So I saw cartoons were becoming popular on youtube, and I began to take up drawing in the pursuit to learn animation.
Ego raptor was one of the many animators on youtube that caught my eye, his strange sense of humor was very modern, and overall just natural and goofy. I always laughed because of the circumstances he'd place his characters in such as the short poke-awesome, a pokemon parody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrHG-JO8gIGk&has_verified=1
After I lean red the fundamentals of drawing at Ringling, I took it upon myself to make my senior thesis an animated 2D short, and was very happy I was able to accomplish what i sought to do for so long. I plan on continuing animation after school, and pushing my skills and knowledge even further.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Writing Assessment
1. There are symbols in the story, but the most prevelent one is the narrator/ mad scientist who wrote the story for his partner. The character is a symbol of the unknown/ becoming known. It represents the basis of the story, and drives us ,the unknowingly partner, along to see why the fiance is a crazy scientist.
2. I made a strange connection with the mad scientist, not that there were any other characters to connect with. I connected with the will to put hard work into a subject, and then sharing it with the world. In the story the shared connection is a secret evil lab of some sort, for me it's an animation I've worked on for the past year. In some way we can typically connect with characters, even if they are the exact opposite of how we behave.
3. If I had to adapt this story into another medium I'd probably choose graphic novel. The biggest change I'd make would be adding illustrations of course, but I'd want the story to move and be told in a similar pace. As the story progresses, It would be interesting to show and see what the mad scientist is referring to in his personal stories.
2. I made a strange connection with the mad scientist, not that there were any other characters to connect with. I connected with the will to put hard work into a subject, and then sharing it with the world. In the story the shared connection is a secret evil lab of some sort, for me it's an animation I've worked on for the past year. In some way we can typically connect with characters, even if they are the exact opposite of how we behave.
3. If I had to adapt this story into another medium I'd probably choose graphic novel. The biggest change I'd make would be adding illustrations of course, but I'd want the story to move and be told in a similar pace. As the story progresses, It would be interesting to show and see what the mad scientist is referring to in his personal stories.
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