Philharmonic Animation Project

Final copy!

2008-04-24T16:13:00.000-04:00

Here's the final copy of the animation for everyone to enjoy! Last night was spectacular and was great fun.

TONIGHT!!!

2008-04-23T14:07:00.000-04:00

THE SAGA BEGINS!!!

2008-04-14T19:33:00.003-04:00

Reworking that ending ripple, editing in new backdrop right before the green spires part and fixing up a few things in the begging. See what you think also about the transition part in the beginning.

Guys I can totally do this.

2008-04-04T00:46:00.002-04:00

Just trust me.

I think it's 100x better. I figured out After Effects tonight, at least all I need to make my animation work. I filled the section between ice and the flower finale with this, and I'm really excited about it. After I finish this (I really don't think it will take long, I wish I'd known this from the start), I'm going to finish up the finale for next week, and then the final cut for the test.

Also that background color was just the default; I'm not using it.

My Progress

2008-04-03T11:17:00.001-04:00

Sorry I wasn't at last meeting. I really didn't feel very good and I'm not still not quite over it. Anyway, for all intensive purposes I'm pretty much done. I'm reanimating the ending and adding and underside to shadow to a few more scenes.

FOR ALLISON:)

2008-03-22T10:47:00.002-04:00

HERE YOU GO, THOUGHT IT MIGHT HELP SOMEWHAT.

READ ME!

2008-03-19T16:20:00.002-04:00

i gotta miss the meeting tonight. i need to catch up on some of the other classes im taking and i dont have much visible progress yet. i made my after effects compositions bigger resolution wich was basically me starting all over with all the resizing. and i did some more clean up. greg gave me a few scenes and im coloring stuff right now. sorry you guys. ill see you around most likely and if not ill see you at the next meeting. ill post what i got when i export it.

Dunno how many of you are reading this

2008-03-14T23:16:00.002-04:00

I'm working super hard, and as of tonight have a total of 55 seconds DONE. There are some parts that I could go back to and improve, but if need be I'll leave well enough alone. Can't wait to see you guys this meeting, I hope that my work will be a pleasant surprise this time!

-Allison

2008-03-05T18:18:00.000-05:00

2008-03-05T11:44:00.002-05:00

I will tell ya editing together fish like things is super fun. But Hears more added, and more to come.

2008-03-05T11:20:00.003-05:00

Thanks Hasan, I'll try those things. The reason I haven't really been working on the backgrounds much is Corel really lags bad if the brush size is bigger than 40. I think it might be because I'm working at such a high resolution, but I'd rather spend more time on slowly building the background than making the resolution smaller. :)

post!

2008-03-05T08:52:00.002-05:00

nice to see people using this blog like it was supposed to be used. allison, your stuff is looking a ba-zillion times better. you background might look better either complementary to the fire ball thing-ee or i was thinking a soft yellow, soft enough to push it back in space. maybe your background can be that cloudy design you had in that test that you didnt like. it could be very soft clouds cause your part is so soft you need something that screams soft and gentle. but that fire is the awesome, and until you change that background, its gonna be had to see how cool the animation is, when its sitting on that dry blue curtain looking thing. even making it flat and not a curtain would be better. maybe...
-odom

More progress

2008-03-05T04:42:00.001-05:00

I know it seems like it's going slow, but the huge screens of red and orange are extremely time consuming. I will have more for the meeting (I promise)

2008-03-04T23:15:00.001-05:00

You tube is being mean to me tonight. But anyway heres a little more of my progress I'll have more up shortly.

Newspaper Article

2008-03-04T12:16:00.002-05:00

Carpenter forwarded me this email:

Hello,
We are running a story in Lake Erie Life Style magazine about the upcoming collaboration between your department and the Erie Philharmonic. Could you please send us a still image or two of the animation to use in the magazine. We will give a photo credit to the university or you. Sorry, but I would need this as soon as possible to meet our deadline. Look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,
Mary Solberg

So tonight we should each find an image from our respective animations and send it to me (introducing_emy@yahoo.com) and I'll foward it on to her and Carpenter.

Updated Beginning

2008-03-03T01:15:00.001-05:00

Here's some progress on the redone beginning. I think I'm going to follow my storyboard instead of go with the fireworks, it's just causing me problems. Will post more tomorrow.

NEW TRANSITION FROM PT2 -3

2008-03-02T12:02:00.002-05:00

changed some things up. now you can see the entire animation of the water splashing and all that. i cleaned up a few of the final scenes. and it looks more like a cut into michelles part rather than a smooth transition. i dont know what would be better. be nice to see some bubbles coming from the ball as it goes downward. i had the ball making bubbles as it fell offscrean, might help the cut to see some bubbles in the beginning of your scene michelle! let me know!

color animatic

2008-02-29T13:12:00.002-05:00

this is my animatic and basically what im working from. this has all the colors i chose in sequence. i thought that it be a good idea to post this since this has the colors i want to use, and maybe you guys can help me decide on color schemes based around the colors i already have, maybe, probably:) or whatever, give me some ideas. im all ears, some of these colors do suk, so let me know which ones.
-odom

GOT HELP?

2008-02-29T08:31:00.001-05:00

COLOR!!!

2008-02-28T00:07:00.002-05:00

then i guess i need alot of help. i guess it is distracting to the animation so hopefully at the next meeting or even before we can chat about that cause i have no clue as to what other color scheme i could use for support since i have so many changing backgrounds. when i started thinking about color i was stumped as to how i could keep a large vareity of colors popping all over the place and still maintain some sense of unity. i guess i aint figure that out yet. so... uh... HELP!
how can i push these backgrounds back while keeping the animation dominant but i dont want things to get too dark tho. dark and muddy.
-odom

Reply to color choices

2008-02-27T23:11:00.004-05:00

I think there does need to be some more thought behind your colors. You can still achieve your goals of bombardment or unrest but have a thought process behind the color. Like the Orange against the Blue does that. A few reasons I'm pushing this is I think right now the current colors in majority are taking away from your animation also I think its making conflict in allowing the entire piece flow. Even though we all have a part in the end we gotta make the whole thing flow. We talked about this a little in the meeting. Next meeting we're gonna put everything thats done so far together and talk about how the piece is acting as a whole.

Sorry to be pushing this color thing here but I really wanna see it become as strong as it possibly can be. I'll post some more about what mean in color theories tomorrow, but right now I gots to get me some sleeps. ^_^ I need to get me some of that coffee your drinking, Hasan.

- Michelle

progress

COLOR CHOICES

2008-02-27T21:50:00.002-05:00

its not any real rhyme or reason behind the colors im choosing. i just jeep plugging em in till i get something i like. Mikes want my values to make some sort of sense but the only sense i want them to make is to be as abnoxious as possible. since my part is all about different elements and the impact they make when they slam against something, the backgrounds are sort of just there. not too intergrated with the elements but sort of in a way. i know i should be following some color scheme and unifying my values and thing that go back in space should get darker and all this and that. but im not working with space. its looks like there may be sometimes but it all boils down to something just banging around on a pretty background. some of the colors i chose are from things i see everyday. one is the color of my underwear, another is a friends blanket, the one with the red and blue are the philadelphia 76ers colors, the one with the ball splashing into the water reminds me of a winery with purple grapes and green vines. see, the colors are coming from somewhere but im not too focused on why they are there. i want the audience to be bombarded with so many colors that your eyes have no opportunity rest while all these things are banging around.
sorry i gave you the long version, ive just been waiting for someone to ask me that question and i just drank a gallon of coffee. i think your part is looking fucking crazy. keep it up. its looks like a paint on glass. tell ms. introducingemy! to post her stuff so i can see it . ill talk to you later, teadrinker004.
peece owt
-odom

ODOM DUM DUM DUM

2008-02-27T12:02:00.001-05:00

UPDATES 02-27-08

from last meeting

2008-02-24T17:07:00.003-05:00

Heres the animation progress from last meeting, Hasan, I'll be posting current updates soon.

MIKE!!!

2008-02-23T15:38:00.003-05:00

ill try to do another test for that scene where the shapes slam into each other then split and bounce on the walls. but alot of the design elements im using are supposed to be flat, sort of like in muppet babies cartoon. they used to jump in and out of paintings and different backgrounds. they would interact with the background but on a flat plane. if i were to try and bring dimension into my part, id have to rethink the entire thing. foreground middle ground and background are always good but i kind of deviated away form all that and focused more on the timing and the impact of all them elements bouncing around, the backgrounds are just keeping things colorful.
-odom

LIGHTBULB

2008-02-23T09:02:00.002-05:00

MICHELLE!
if you have vegas, which you do since i put it on your drive that day and it is fully functional, you can animate alot easier with it. if coreal can export jpegs then you got half the work done.
export your files into jpegs, fuck renaming, just stick with 00001, 00002. why even have names. go through your animatic and create sections and name those like A,B,C so when you animate a section it'll be 00001A or 00002B depending on the section.
take all them files into vegas, remember to go to preferences and change the import option, its within the editing tab. you gotta make it some weird number like 0.001 means 2frames at 24 fps. it weird but easy to do. import all your shit into vegas and there you go. good thing about vegas it that it updates as soon as you save. so if you make a change to your preexisting frames while vegas is open, itll change it as soon as you save it. so thatll be a good way to go back and fix our timing and all that. FUCK MONKEYJAM for this project. you gotta figure out a easier way cause your gonna be dealing with almost 2000 frames, naming all of them is crazy. vegas dont care about names, as long as they aint the same. and you can go in and make changes without rendering a preview. and you can make a vegas file for each section of your animation then put them together after you render them rather than having one file with all of your frames, keep em separate and put em all together when you bring it in or when you need to see the flow. if this doesnt help then i dont know what to tell you. but if you like doing billions of hours of extra work then more power to you.
-odom

GUESS IM OK!

2008-02-23T08:42:00.003-05:00

im gonna start clean up. i hope there is nothing i should change cause if so, speak now or forever hold your post. i just got a big bag of coffee and some CRACK! so i might just clean up THE WHOLE ANIMATION today! so last chance, if something is gay or sux, let me know, anything not reading let me know. cause im just gonna assume that im in the clear on the animation since no one has anything to say.
-odom
50 secs by wed

ANIMATION DONE!

2008-02-22T23:58:00.001-05:00

i think im done animating. let me know if im not! but im starting clean up.
yay!
-odom

MICHELLE!!!!!

2008-02-22T13:01:00.002-05:00

post your progress animation you showed on wed so i can see where you started to animate so i know where to end mine. and i can start trying to connect them. or you can send me at least the keyframes or a few frames of that beginning so i can transition easily. a frame or two wil prolly be better, save me some time. so uh....
DO IT IMMEDIATELY!!!!
or whenever you get a chance.

REPOST

2008-02-21T19:49:00.001-05:00

im reposting my video that didnt have any sound before. its working now. comments welcome.

YOUTUBE WORKING AGAIN!

2008-02-21T19:32:00.003-05:00

i guess its working cause i uploaded this and it worked, volume and all. this is my skipping stones scene with ripple effects. i tried to add some splashing but it looked gay so i got rid of it. but i think this scene is a little dry and was wondering what else can go into this composition, maybe some texture on the water or something, i dont know. it just looks too empty but if yaw dont mind, i dont mind... if you know what i mean.
let me know
-odom

YOUTUBE BROKE?

2008-02-21T17:17:00.003-05:00

MY VIDEO HAS SOUND IT JUST UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE WITHOUT IT. I JUST UPLOADED SOMETHING ELSE AND JUST REALISED THAT IT WS UPLOADED WITHOUT SOUND ALSO. YOUTUBE IS OFFICIALLY BROKE! IM NOT EVEN GONNA WORRY ABOUT IT. IM SITTING HERE BUSSING MY ASS ANYWAYS SO IF WHAT I HAVE ISN'T SEEN TILL NEXT WEDNESDAY ILL JUST HAVE LIKE 30 SECS OF ANIMATION DONE TO MAKE UP FOR IT.
COMPUTERS ARE PISSING ME OFF TODAY.
-ODOM

FINALLY...

2008-02-21T08:28:00.003-05:00

youtube is working this morning so i finally posted it. enjoy!

well...

2008-02-20T22:05:00.003-05:00

i uploaded my video to youtube and it says its processing or something. so im sort of tired of waiting so ill just do it tomorrow. maybe youtube is going through some crazy clean up thing. who knows. COME BACK TOMORRW to see the greatest animation alive!
peece owt
hasan odom

youtube maintenence

2008-02-20T20:58:00.002-05:00

hey, youtube is performing some maintenene thing so it wont let me post my video there. so i cant post it on here till youtube is done doing whatever its doing. so i will try and post it in like a half an hour, but if youtube aint dont then ill just wait till tomorrow cause i think im hitting the sack early tonight.
oh yeah, theres a lunar eclipse of the moon hapening right now as i speak, half of the moon is covered already!
peece owt
hasan odom

THE ENDING

2008-02-15T16:23:00.002-05:00

this is supposed to be a scene of skipping stones. i was testing out the motion and im not too unhappy with it but i wanted to post it and see what anyone else had to say. the motion seems a little slow but it aint bothering me. im also gonna add splashing effects and water ripples to really give it that skipping stone effect.
if anyone thinks it sux, let me know!

2-13-08 meeting part 3 progress

2008-02-13T19:12:00.000-05:00

some progress

POST SUN-TIN

2008-02-10T09:51:00.000-05:00

WTF?

ANY LIFE?

2008-02-08T09:10:00.000-05:00

"cricket sound"
"cricket sound"

didnt color it

2008-02-07T14:55:00.000-05:00

i put these thumbnails together to show you what will be happening in the animation. a shot in your transition has those 4 balls floating to the bottom, instead of 4 make it 1 but there will be bubbles trailing behind the ball as it sinks. after the ball splashes into the water and begins to sink, your style will begin. sort of like a dissolve from my style to yours. so as the ball sinks, the background will go from my style to your painted style, maybe just start animating paint strokes and colors to fill the background as it sinks. so whatever colors you want to use, go for it cause i havent decided on colors yet and i kinda wanna work on the freefall before i choose the color of the water the ball will be landing in. but the colors you have are cool and since the transition will work as a dissolve it wont even matter if i choose to make the water hot pink, cause once the background begins to dissolve to your style, the color will change with the style change. and the deeper the ball sinks, the darker the water gets.

michelle and allison

2008-02-07T08:37:00.000-05:00

um...michelle i didnt get a chance to do those last few scenes last night. ill try and do it before 12 pm, i woke up early as hell today for some punk ass reason so im on it! allison, i need to know what your doing at the end of yours so i can know if we can work some transition. since your still deciding what your doing you should find some way to transition into rain, or at least something falling. let me know when you got it cause if we can get 3 smooth transitions, then we are some wizards. SO PULL OUT YOU MAGIC BAG OF TRICKS AND LETS GET BUSY!!!
OVER AND OUT
DOOKIE!

Trans. between 2 and 3 with intro bit

2008-02-06T18:32:00.001-05:00

a little more given with this one for clarification

bubble scene, is it ok

2008-02-03T17:20:00.000-05:00

i still didnt put in the splash that a bubble makes. every bubble that gets hit will have a sort of "pop" effect. but i just wanna know if this scene is ok. the bubbles were done in illustrator but i will be using hand drawn elements in the finished copy. and some crazy pop effects.

how do i post videos to the front page

2008-02-03T14:07:00.000-05:00

how do i post videos on the front page

Concept for Part 2 to Part 3 Transition

2008-02-03T03:57:00.000-05:00

So while working on part 3 here I came up with this concept for the Part 2 to 3 transition. Looking at Hasan's piece in the end part he ends with multiples of the ball splashing into water. I thought of taking that ball and having it skip then plunge into water; and as it sinks in the water it morphs into a bubble like shape which then follows into the rest of part 3. Just an idea but what do you think?

Progress Hasan

2008-02-02T17:10:00.000-05:00

Hey Hasan, I'm posting this on the front here for you.

Next time I see you I'll show you how to post the videos. Also I need your blogger email so I can make you a publisher here on the blog.

Need your blog email

2008-02-02T02:28:00.001-05:00

I wanna make it so we can all be able to publish on the front page here. So in the comments here give me the email you use for blogger here, and then I can send you an invite. Thanks

Trying to get the hang of Painter

2008-02-02T02:27:00.000-05:00

Here are some tests I did, the second one glitched for a second, try to ignore it

First Post of Many <3

2008-01-31T22:25:00.001-05:00

It's nothing too fancy as of yet but I think this should help with communication and sharing information with each other.

I have made it so anyone can post at this point. I really don't think anyone is going to be coming in here and making a ruckus of things. I do recommend making an account with blogger just because if I have to change settings to limited access then adding you to the blog will be much easier. If you do post with out an account make sure you sign your first name or something to that nature so we know who is making what post.

Also as another note the left side is current news, meeting summaries and what not. I'll keep posting a youtube video on the side there of our most current compilation of the animation. That way we can use it for reference.

Hope everyone likes the blog idea here and lets keep our fire for this burning <3