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This morning,

Tracy Dalton (LSAD Graduate and current Brown Bag Films Animator) hosted a talk with us over Teams in order to give us some exciting insight into working first hand in animation.

She explained to us several aspects that animation studios look for in new comers and what we should look to emulate as time goes on, such as being a team player, being outgoing, having a strong sense of volume and depth, and adapting well to the art style of a show being aspects that stood out to me.

She was extremely likeable and open to any sort of questions we had. I asked her how she believes her college experience affected how she works now as a professional animator, as knowing what is extremely helpful in what to expect going forward. She came back to me saying it instilled a strong sense of work ethic and introduced her to the multiple aspects of the craft.Traceys linkedin + Graduates page

For the workshop with Yvonne, people had built clay models for them to animate lip syncing onto. I had been out so I decided to do a makeshift traditional lip syncing model on the spot and I'm happy with the result I learned a lot about lip syncing today and getting to work on my own pieces to explore the skill is a great feeling when everything is said and done

"Wario Dying"

Today for Paul we worked on setting up lip sync symbols in Adobe Animate for us to then implement these skills in making a personal work. I jokingly used audio of Wario from Super Mario Brothers exploding and dying for my work

During the process of lip syncing, I was surprised how well the auto lip-sync function on Animate worked.

Today while with Paul in the lab, we worked on turning a shape and making it follow a line drawn by the pen tool.

The most important things I learned to do are

1: Turn line drawn into a 'Guide'

2: Use Classic Tween

3: Create keyframes right when the shape goes down a slope and select Ease in-> Cubic in the tween effects section to make it seem as though its going down a slope

4: Using "Orient to path" to make the shape change rotation as it moves along the line

Above: My workspace upon export

This morning we worked on a Spider-verse animated poster as a tutorial for our animated poster project.

"Almost Nothing" -Deborah Mcdonagh

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I had a fantastic talking with Deborah about photography in this workshop. In what I lack physically about the workshop, mentally I feel so much more engaged with the photography elective as a whole after talking to her.

In the class we discussed what I want to see out of my photography as well as looking back on what I have done in the realm of photography and what could possibly be my style.

She shared with us her history with the subject and gave us some really fascinating insight into the processes that go into being a photographer, including a very funny story about the bed in "almost nothing" getting stuck at the bottom of a pool due to the weight of the water absorbed into the sheets. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Throughout the conversation, she showed us some very cool photographers that I saw myself drawn to.

Tim Walker:

Tim Walkers photography stood out to me due to its unapologetic beauty in the weird and wonderful. Being shown photos of his "Wonderful things" exhibition almost made me giddy in how stupidly cool his vision was. I particularly liked his gigantic sketchbook because of its genius but silly existence. Its one thing to show off your sketchbook to everyone, but its another to scale it up 10 times its size and show the world where you make your notes.

Richard Billingham:

On the opposite side of the wonderful, Richard Billingham's approach to realism in his "Ray's a laugh" photo series is a brutal documentation of the world around the photographer. The subject most represented in the series is his father, whom was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic who was often found sleeping the whole day through. Richard's world growing up in a cramped high rise apartment with a problematic family is documented as a stark opposite from the conventional family unit.

The photos are raw, unfiltered, and humorously tragic in nature.

Conclusion:

-Down the rabbit hole

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For photography, I started with Gemma's workshop on pinhole photography, which I found to be completely fascinating and one of my favourite workshops so far.

We started with learning what pinhole photography is and how it relates back to the origin of photography as a medium. Cutting a pin sized hole and having the image of the world on the opposite side projected onto the surface is the aim. To do this we did a simple process.

Making of the pinhole Camera

We used a small black cylinder with an openable top. With this we used a hole cutting pliers to make a small incision on the wall of the camera.

Next we used a needle to drill a hole onto a small brass surface.

Using tape, we attached the incised brass surface onto the inside of the camera, paying close attention that the hole matches up with the hole of the camera.

Once this is done, cover up the hole with more tape, ensuring it is dark inside the camera.

Now you have to take a light sensitive surface and place it on the inside of the camera, aligned so the hole faces it. This will be your photo

Go to what you want to photograph and whip off the tape on the outside so the light goes through the pinhole. Depending on the light levels, you can expect to wait between 10 seconds -> 2 minutes for an image to appear when you go to develop it.

Above:

Gemma demonstrating pinhole photography with a board over an open door with a small pinhole, light being projected onto a page

The construction of the camera

My finished camera

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A student in the morning class construction her own camera using 2 cardboard boxes, paper for a screen, and a magnifying glass. It was incredibly cool to use

The first scan of my finished third photo. Visually wet from the developer but I found that to look cool.

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My photograph:

My illustrious photoshoot location. I thought the swirls of the bike rack would reflect very well in a pinhole camera photo. I also believed my theme of growth in the transgender experience could be reflected in the swirling spiralling effect the final product could produce.

The final product was something I am incredibly proud of because it perfectly reflects what I find cool in photography. I have a tendency to be drawn to darker photos that have a gritty aspect to their aesthetic value.

In my opinion, the first 10 second long exposure time photo reflects the downward spiral idea the most effectively with its motion blur like draw right into the darkness. However, the 25 seconds photo is great too... mainly because it features my friends holding hands and getting to collaborate with my friends even a little bit made me happy.

Conclusion