Project Duncan III

This week I start animating. I think I have some problems when i am animating in Storyboard Pro. I tried to set each panel as one frame long, but it didn't work. I can only set each fram to one second as the shortest possible length. Under this condition, I am afraid the movement might feel a little bit not smooth. I will probably try to animate in a different way instead of doing it frame by frame.
 This video is what I have so far. This animation is probably going to be longer than one minute including the openning.

Project Duncan II

This week I was working on the watercolor background for my animation. I was not being able to start animating the first five seconds yet. I will start animating this week.

I design the cat is following a butterfly to a grass field and she sees the dog resting there.

Project Duncan I

I did my storyboard for my animation this week. 

These read from left to right.

The cat is disturbing the dog who is sleeping. She wants his attention on her. The dog will stop her and push her away, but she never gives up. Finally, the dog accepts her. This will be the end. I desire to add some interesting  scenes, but I haven't decided yet because the time might not be enough to include too many elements.

Project Duncan Proposal

I proposed an idea for Ron Saks Project, but it didn't get selected. I really like that idea of making an animation about the love of a cat and a dog. I don't want to give it up, so I decide to pick it up and accomplish it for this project.

This was my old sketch. 

I plan to shorten and simplify this animation down to 30 seconds. I will use some really simple lines to illustrate the cat an dog. The background will be scanned watercolor paintings and animated by Storyboard. 

schedule
April 3 finished storyboard, designs of the dog and cat
April 5 starting working on the first second. Presumably, the first few frames will be done. The watercolor background will be finished.
April 10 working on the first 10 seconds.
April 12 first 15 seconds finished.
April 19 20 seconds finished
April 26 25 seconds finished
March 3 30 seconds finished. finished product posted on the blog

Ron Saks Project III

I met with my group on Tuesday morning and handed over the pictures I took and contact sheets.
The final product is posted on Jess's blog.

Ron Saks Project: Jessica Landscape II

I went out and shot some photos for this project this week. 

I found out this bird feeder on campus. When the first time I saw it, I had this strong impression that this was a place. A place for someone to live in. It has fences, houses, and its owners -- birds. 

This place waits for its owners to come back everyday and watches its owners to leave everyday. 

I took some other photos of campus. 

These are my contact sheets.

Ron Saks Project I: Jessica Landscape

I am in Jessica's group, so what we need to do is to take landscape pictures~OwO

Since I don't have a car in Columbus and I am living on campus, I plan to shoot around campus. Presumably, I am going to shoot downtown Columbus. I find out that there are two Gothic churches around campus and I think they are perfect to shoot. Other locations might be on campus. I think CCAD campus is actually a very fun place to shoot at.

This following photo was shot this afternoon when sun was setting. I was experimenting with it.