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412K First Set of Animations Progress

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412K First Set of Animations Progress

We’ve all been chugging away at the RUS412 Animations, I’ve made some progress on some of the early final animations for this project that I’ve attached below:

This animation required a lot of action that I wanted to boil down into the minimal amount of animation possible.

This animation, on the other hand, has less action but I’ve been developing more nuanced action for it as well.

Getting better and better at using motion tweens to my advantage!

Added a little “hum” movement to the bus to suggest the engine is running, also worked a lot with shadows here.

Just getting started on this animation, but I’m excited to see how it progresses!

This animation made use of very large photoshop files and motion tweens to convey movement and depth.

RUS412K Animations Cafe Door

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RUS412K Animations Cafe Door

 

Today I finished up a CU of the “Cafe” door for the Russian animations. A similar background had been created for the previous semester but it did not match the new style and needed to be updated.

RUS412K Trash Man Animation

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RUS412K Trash Man Animation

I have essentially finished the trash animation for RUS412K. I used this animation for a video that Mike is organizing to show the animation process to potential professors/clients who might be interested in using 2D animation for their projects. Included in this post is the cartoon I completed along with a timelapse showing the creation of the animation.

412K Toy Store Background

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412K Toy Store Background

Last week I began working on the Toy Store Background for the Russian animations. For this animation, a child pulls his mother to a store window to look at a toy he wants. The mother considers it but then sees how expensive it is and pulls him away from the window. For this particular background, I used an actual toy store in Moscow as a loose reference. I wanted it to be  very classic toy that the boy would be interested in, one that someone from both Russian and American culture can identify with, so I opted for a classic robot toy. Once the robot is colored, I’ll add a large price tag sticking off of it!

Week of 7/30

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Week of 7/30

I’ve finally moved to the afternoon STA meetings!

Last week, I worked on mostly RUS412 animations and illustrations. For illustrations, I finished the Oleg’s lecture dream drawing:

Now it looks very dreamy! I’m starting a similar piece that basically reuses the background setting of the den, but I’ll change some minor details like Oleg’s sleep position, the time, and the utensils on the table.

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I also finished making a trash truck for Russian animations! The hardest part was drawing the contraption on the end of the truck because I had to improvise it instead of tracing it I also made the mistake of using object drawing while filling in the color, and that makes every brush stroke its own selection instead of the entire color area. Other than that, everything else went pretty smoothly since I’ve already made 3 vehicles so mostly it was the same procedure.

I worked on a walk cycle of the mother pulling the child away from the store after she sees how expensive the toy he wanted was.

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However, Tate and Suloni decided it looked a little weird (and after coming back to it, I agree) so I’ll be making revisions to it! Look forward to the new and improved version next week 😉

RUS 412 Developments

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RUS 412 Developments

No super visual updates today! Last week, I mainly worked to get the animation aspect of the RUS412K project back on track. I had previously gotten a little behind on assigning tasks for this project, and after talking with Suloni, Samantha, Kelly, and Heather, have devised a way to make sure we stay on track with the project and deliver everything on time. In doing so, we have agreed on rolling deadlines for the animations, since they all don’t have to be completed by the end of August. That way, STAs can continue working into the semester on these animations, giving them more time to complete them. I also learned that the RUS407 semester doesn’t go live in the fall, just the spring so I have reached an agreement with the professor to push back the deadlines for the RUS407 edits until we can make sure the classes that go live in the fall will be completed in time. Now I’ve got the animation google sheet back in order and STAs are breezing through the assignments I’ve been giving them, just waiting to get audio/ppts for the RUS412 semester to get those synced up with the help of some video and design STAs before classes begin at the end of next month!