#week project

Hiya! ✨ In my fourth week at Ironhack, we have developed an individual project of an e-Learning Platform.

It was a challenging project because for the first time we had to make a proposal for a complete high-fidelity app. Luckily, I managed it quite well and, although there are still some things to develop, I am quite satisfied with the result.

If you want to try the prototype, you can click here!

It was my first project, and I know it has many aspects to improve. But even so, with the resources I had, I know I can be satisfied with the final proposal.

Today we had group feedbacks on our initial thumbnail ideas after explaining them to the group and

 Jack said- he liked the third idea with the screaming head- which would be a really good sound effect/ sound board for me to have fun and build up so I defiantly plan on adding that into mine. He also said it has the potential for more with the ball at the start bouncing around and then going into the head animation which I thought was a great point and I could go over the time limit and do the ball bouncing and transforming then speeding up and then the ball disappear then reappear as head.

Alexandra said she likes the freedom that the third idea potentially gives me which is a great point as that also goes hand in hand with experimentation as you really need freedom to be able to do it. The more I thought about all the feedback I got the more I wanted to do the third idea.

Going on my ‘principle’ of experimentation and the fact the motif is a ball I just started sketching out the first ideas that came into my head....

All of them started on the basis of a ball bounce as that's how lots of  animators started practicing and then each one somehow evolves into something else.

Idea one:

- ball bounces onto screen and then when it hits the ground it splats and then rises up and has transformed into an egg that starts to sizzle and cook then in comes a hand with a spatula to flick it off screen.

- reasoning- thinking about the start of things the most common argument is what came first the chicken or the egg, and I’ve ways been on the side of the egg hence that and then I wanted to add in some form of human representation as my  animation at uni started from practicing ball bounces to walk cycles, character animations etc. So it kind of shows my progression and experimentation.

Idea 2:

- the ball is a little stylised face that squashes and stretches and mouth, eyes nose etc is getting pulled back by the wind like a sky divers, then he hits the floor in a bloody gruesome impact which knocks out a tooth and leaves him a bloody bruised mess on the floor then he coughs up a ball that rolls out, transforms into a UFO and then beams him up and flies away.

- reasoning- there really is no reasoning other than its just stupid and I like gruesome things and I wanted the chance to practice bruised characters etc,,, But then I realised it would all be in greyscale so I’m kind of sad about that or I would have gone with this idea.

idea 3:

- a ball bounces down while transforming into a squidgy ball, teleports through the floor, then comes back up as a floating head and then opens its disgusting mouth and eats the camera. - If I was to do this I really want to make it super stylised and almost ‘bad’ looking, bight colours and contrasting ones would really be fun to use with this but unfortunately we are really limited with the colour scheme.

This week we got our brief for our collaboration project. But first we are starting with a slightly smaller project to ease us into it. 

We have to come up with our own 13th principle of animation. I found it really hard to come up with any ‘new’ principles so I wanted to focus on way I got into animation to begin with. Pretty much the main reason for me is just for fun, like I am passionate as well but fun is more important to me. 

So I started thinking about what matters to me as I’m animating my projects and a recurring theme is wanting to experiment. so For this quick one week 2-3 second animation project I just really have to get into the animation of it instead of spending too much on the ideas etc.

The bullet points of this week brief is.....film in a week:8th-15th:

- 2-3 sec short sequence, (could be anything from animatic to full rendered work)

- 1920x1080 - 25fps - MP4

- Motif- bouncy ball

The View From Here, Day 7

Sunday, March 25, 2018

1 Row, L photo:

9:31am: It freaking snowed again.

1 Row, R photo:

10:43am: Maybe it will stop snowing if I take the snowflake decorations down.

2 Row, L photo:

11:05am: Easter decorations out!

2 Row, R photo:

12:56pm: Unleash the power of the Penguins over the Flyers!

3 Row, L photo:

1:21pm: Prepping the plastic eggs for display outside. Ah! I found Wally!

3 Row, R photo:     

The View From Here, Day 6

Saturday, March 24, 2018

1 Row, L photo:

10:32am: Zee Moose says good morning.

1 Row, R photo:

11:45am: I forget quite often that I have a sliding door and a back porch.

2 Row, L photo:

1:27pm: Babysitting my grandma.

2 Row, R photo:

1:49pm: Decided to eat while babysitting my grandma and noticed the note my dad left on the mayonnaise jar. He’s a weirdo because he likes Miracle Whip which is revolting. 

3 Row, L photo:

5:47pm: Visiting the newest dying store.

3 Row, R photo: