Final Project: "Friday Style"

Alright, this is my final project for EComp 355. So I started this project on April 3, Friday. The night before I downloaded Dj Sinj's album "Something Strange". He's got some nice hip hop tracks on it. On Friday I have this class, it's magical. I can't believe the amount of talent and heart that my classmates have, its amazing.

For my EAES 201 class I wrote a song for my personal arts project. My critical buddy "Neitzlawe" gave me many pointers in which to improve upon. He advised me to start freestyling to help get a feel of "natural flow". So I turned on Dj Sinj's song: "Guitar". I was planning on doing a short music video for a written song, but I no longer liked the song. This was all inspired by the magical energy I got from that classroom. I'm still learning how to freestyle so don't expect a masterpiece like "Funky Monkey". I tend to say "inappropriate" things when I freestyle so I did a practice take called "Tring not to swear", I lasted about minute. hehe

For the animating portion, I find it much easier to animate for musical purposes. With music I could make the images "flow" and "meta-morphasize" to the music. Doing animations with alot of details would have taken a great deal of time to animate, so I stuck with simple short animated clips. Overall this project took me about 16 hours to complete (I napped a few times). My head hurts, my back is aching and my eyes want to read a book.

Teaching animation may prove to be a difficult task though. Making animations takes time and patience. Student collaberation would be very useful when/if teaching animation; each student could animate short sections, eventaully these clips can be compiled into a cool looking video.

This was the first time I made a complete story board before I animated. It worked wonders, I could see where I had to go with the animations , instead of just going for it.

Now its time for a break from animation.

Friday styles on a Saturday