Yang

changes

hey guys:

i made some changes to the blog (template & the width of the text). it's very rudimentary so feel free to make further changes!

fast food

spring break

lost in translation

The focus of this project was the storyboard. Without an actual animation, the storyboard is able to tell the complete story (no pun intended) including the transitions and pacing. The animatic merely tells the viewer how the selected music will interact with the still images.

Lessons learned: Don't get too attached. My initial idea was to use an image of a cloud (with a handmade aesthetic) to portray the concept of wandering. Unfortunately, the cloud idea did not give the city-like feel of the movie or the aesthetic I was going for. I scrapped the cloud idea and backtracked to find a better way to portray both cityscape and wandering.

blossom

When I first started working on the slideshow, I had trouble deciding between which photographs to use because I was attached to too many of them. However, throughout the process of putting together the slideshow, I learned how to use only the photos that were essential to telling my story.

y2k

With this animation, I learned how to manipulate a combination of compositions to create the effect of the numbers coming apart. I learned to exaggerate in order to achieve the effects I wanted. I experimented with the “tv turn off” effect for the first time and tried to study videos that contained that effect online in order to create my own version of it.

pan's labyrinth

I find it difficult to make a storyboard before making an animation because it is hard to picture which scenes are most important in telling the story. In making the storyboard, I learned to create an atmosphere and to simplify ideas. I also learned to use different perspectives with a zoom in and out effect rather than keeping all of the action in the same frame.

engineered performance

This project was about exploring dual meanings within an ordinary household object. At the beginning, the viewer has a preconceived notion of what s/he is watching, but as the object is revealed, that mentality changes causing the key word(s) (that are displayed at both the beginning and the end of the sequence) to take on a different meaning.

Lessons learned: Have a strong concept and execution will go smoothly. I began the project with many ideas and tried to make all of them work; unfortunately that left things looking muddled and unfocused. Only after selecting one main concept and deeply editing did the piece come together.

the shining

hello.

labels (tags for emily): object, storyboard, animation, your name

anything else?