Day 3

So today might not seem like the most productive of days, not even finishing 4 seconds of work, but it was actually the best day yet! I ran into a lot of problems on this one, but solved all of them! It's not finished yet, so the last few frames I'm definitely gonna redo. The kick doesn't POP yet. But I've got some ideas for this one that'll be cool, and I'll probably work on this a lot tonight or tomorrow.



So after today's work, I'm a lot more confident. Excited to keep doing this!

Day 2

So my second full day of animation went like this:



As well as posing some characters for flowerpot spins which takes longer than I expected. And started another project but didn't get too far in it yet, so I'm not gonna post any of that.

I'm gonna work on movement more tomorrow, today was reintroducing myself to the whole embedded objects thing. Tomorrow will probably be just like, walk cycles/head turns/moving arms and stuff. Get used to doing those things so I can incorporate them nicely into the fun things.

Day 1

The first thing I did was take pictures of cardboard I painted waves onto and layered them and made'm wave for a li'l sea scene. I had a project a while ago I wanted to do, and now I'm playing around with it in ze animation world. Just a li'l test of what hand-painted cutouts look like.



Then did an obviously Don Hertzfeldt inspired cartoon thing. Really fun. Tried to practice some squash/stretch, drag, timing and spacing, eye-blinks, head turn, and pacing in a whole scene. And it's in squigglevision haha. Enjoy:



I think it was a pretty swell first day. Hopefully I can only go up from here.

Intro

So I got to Binghamton Wednesday evening and walked a few miles to the house. It was sick seeing everyone, me and Jordan cleaned and reorganized a bunch, I did some laundry, ate some foood, watched the presidential debate, went to a show at cyber cafe for a bit, did my first food shopping ($25, lets see how long it lasts), then slept, hoping to wake up early and get the rest of my stuff done. Oh I set up my desk just like last year:

I woke up and fell right back to sleep. Got everything done in the afternoon and did some drawing, but fell asleep again haha. It was gooood catching up on ZzZs anyhow. Hung out with the house at night, made some dinner, watched interviews with animators and stuff, eventually went to sleep, ready for my first full day of animation. Oh yeah, the point of being up here is to animate at least 8am-4pm every weekday, and however much I want any other time.

 So every post from now on will be less words and more videos/pictures of what I did each day. Have fun checking out a beginner animator do some crappy animations for a while! Hopefully you can see me get better haha.