last post

It's been a while since my last post! This is mainly due to the fact that I was animating the entire time, and I didn't want to post any animation online until the film was entirely complete. By now, the animation has been complete for about a week and I had my final graduation presentation on Tuesday, August 25th. It went well: I passed with highest scores for all criteria! So I guess that brings an end to my time as an animation student. Now I am simply an unemployed animator with a European Media Master in Arts.

As for some final updates, here is the animation:



And I will also include a download link to my thesis, which I'm putting online for educational purposes. It is an investigation of animated shorts as an advertising medium and covers advertising history, animation's relevance to advertising, case studies on the Coca-Cola and Prada campaigns, and a chapter on my graduation animation. Here is the link:

Entertain Me: The Added Value of Animated Shorts as an Advertising Medium

And finally, I made some graphics for my final powerpoint presentation, symbolizing the evolution of the project. Just to make it a more entertaining experience for my teachers, I personified my project as a little blue creature. It worked: they said my project was very enjoyable!

some backgrounds in progress

animation test

it's messy, but i'm trying to get back into the animation groooove! and trying out some animation software for the first time on this laptop. (the last animation i did was on a different one.)

just a plain old boring walk cycle!

character sheet - final

storyboard finished

finally finished the first version of my storyboard for the animation. above are some random frames.
and now it's on to animating non-stop for a month and a half! YEAH!!

bubbles and lotuses

paper finished

woohoo! i finally finished the first draft of my research paper. i still need to add the contents page, bibliography, images, etc., but in its current "naked" form it is 29 pages long with gill sans font, 11pt, no double spacing. i figure that's a healthy size, haha. i'm pretty satisfied with the results.

anyway, for those who are curious as to the contents of the paper, i have created a wordle which shows the most frequently used words in the paper, the largest words being the ones used most often, and vice versa for the small words. almost the same as reading the paper! haha.



from this point on, 100% of my daily work time will go into the animation. HARDCORE!!