Character Animation

Here is my Character Animation form Animation class. I had to make up a story and characters and the plot and everything else. It's about a car who is a great need of gas but just can't find it. He sadly can't get the gas station in time and runs out.

I made the character and the background in Photoshop and animated it all in After Effects. I made about nine different short animation of each scene then had to add them all together then rendered it all. 

Here is my animation.

Lego Blood Drive

Here I have two videos that are a little differnet then before. There are Informal Interviews. Before I made fun stories and now I'm making news packages. The first video I interviewed my friend Carter about him building legos and other things.

I got all six shots in and asked all the right questions. With the informal interview I asked Carter what he was doing, Why he was doing it, and other more personal questions. All this was done while Carter built his lego set. The project was fun and pretty easy but some things could have been improved like not such shaky camera shots meaning needed to keep stable when filming and interviewing Carter. some of my shots were very quite.

Blood Drive:

 


Lego Day:

Break Free Music Video

This Project was to make a music video with a group of four people. My group did Break Free by Ariana Grande. We spent three-four days on planning out the video and getting all the other important  finished like what the costumes were needed. Our plan was to have two differnet worlds so each of us needed two costumes. 
We hand some problems with time management when shooting the video because we would shoot a shot and then break out laughing after it. When editing the video we had planned on having the shots go to the lyrics but in the end we had to go the the beat. A lot of our shots were longer then the beat sometimes.
I would have shot the video in different locations instead of one hallway. We could have many different ideas for shots if we had been in different locations. 

Character Walk Cycle

My Character is Robot in a business suit who likes to walk in black background. His design is loosely based on the evil robot from the movie Robots. i wanted to make a robot but he needed to be wearing something and something was a business suit.

With making this robot i had to make him walk as well. I first moved the picture form Photoshop to After Effects and then made the legs into their own animation where they would go into a walking animation using keyframes in After Effects. Using keyframes wasn't to difficult to do but the hardest part of keyframes is that i had to line them up so the legs would walk at different times. 

A few issues i ran into was trying to get the legs to move at the right time so one leg was on the ground while the other was in air. Another issue I ran into was keeping the legs in between the Robots Torso. If I could change any with my project is to draw the Robot better. Meaning to draw him with more detail.

The Chase

This project was to film a chase sequence with three acts in it. Each act telling parts of the story. Act one setting up the for the plot and the main character. Act two rising up to the climax and then giving the climax. Act three Leading to the resolution of the story and showing the ending.

The process of making this whole video happen took a few todays. The first step was to plan the whole thing out with a storyboard and everything. My partner and I had to come up with an ida and then plan what shots would tell what part of the story. We both had different ideas at first but when one idea came up another came up and eventually we had the same idea on how the story would go. Filming wasn't to hard since we had everything planned out ready to film. After filming we edited and we edited pretty fast and added music and timed it all pretty well.

Somethings I learned were that when filming was trying get certain angles and shots its tough to not break the 180 degree rule. (That means to film on only one half the character.) I broke it when the brush shot showed. Also when doing the Over the Shoulder shot we didn't quiet get over the shoulder. Non-filming wise My partner and me were a great duo when it came to this video.

Worm

Worm   By Alex Gabel

I made the worm and background in Photoshop and then made the worm move in Adobe After Effects. I made the worm move in an inchworm movement using the puppet tool in After Effects. This was a fun project.

Walk to the Classroom

The Walk to the Classroom video is about a student going to his class from his locker. Using the six shot system and ten shots I told a story with different shots and angles.

Bouncy Ball

Bouncy Ball
A Ball Bouncing with a little bit of squash and stretch after every time it hits the ground. I made the ball and background in Photoshop, then made the ball bounce in Adobe After Effects. This project was a fun first project to get introduced in animation and the projects to come.

Six Shot System

My Six Shot System Video.
I made this video using the Six Shot System. The Six Shot System means to use Six differnet shot to tell a story. The Student here is late at doing his assignment so he must hurry and finish it soon so he doesn't get in trouble with the teacher.