X-Mas Post! 2011 (Week 16)

Made a quick Wishlist in the computer lab.  Week 16, i've done nothing. Been sick the past week, watching Twin Peaks, trying not to puke, and missing my cats.  But, now need to start on my next semester short and finish re-editing my stop-mo short.  Will get on that tomorrow! I swear! (I'll try...)

XMAS WISHLIST

but this is what I need:

boo hoo.

ambar

Week 14/15 last week

Updating so late :(

Week 14 and 15 was spent working on my Stop-mo film, Intuitive final, and 3D test.

I'm gonna post 2 up here, my stop-mo one is too big:

They built a door next to my desk for the new experimental classroom! Look how clean my desk is! Cleaned it over the weeked, should have took a "before" shot. It was full of plates and cups. ( I stopped counting how many cups were on my desk when I got to 12...)

The A115 creepy desks at night when no one is in here...

All i'm gonna say is the last 2 weeks were extremely stressful. No sleeping, and all of these were made in 1 day except for the intuitive that took hours spread over the 2 weeks while catching up on essays allllll my other work.

Now i'm in the lab. re-editing my stop-mo film.  Should have it finalized by tonight or tomorrow.

I think this semester went okay, I actually like how weird the 3D test turned out, If I were to re-do it differently.  I've met great people and am now am spending the holidays here at CalArts. Missing my cats and food.

ambar

Week 13

Blogging at 3 am because I can't sleep.
Tomorrow i'm doing some voice recording in the morning and this is me and thomas with burce bickford!

I also have a 6 page essay due on tuesday which I have been working on for hours :( I know i'm gonna end up almost crying in the lab monday night. ughhh i suck at writing essays

The Intuitive assignment was the lip sync one I posted for last week because I finished it earlier.
But my to do list is:
6 Page Essay for History of Animation
6 Page Essay for Writing Arts
Paper for Dinner with Animation Class
3D cut-out film
Live Action film
Stop-Mo film
Intuitive Final (24 second lip sync)

some of these are due in a few days, some in 2 weeks (2 more weeks of school!!!!)

and this week in stop-mo Mike brought in his Corpse Bride puppets! It was really cool and nice of him to bring in these $30,000 puppets for us and showed us some cool time lapse of animators shooting on the set.

Enjoy photos of amazingly well made puppets, excited students, and blurry photos from my HD phone camera.

and here is a puppet I made. Don't worry it's not for my stop-mo film I made this in about 5 secs at the puppet cabaret show on friday

I hope my mom sees where all the tuition money is going to!

ambar

Week 12

My thanksgiving break has been me working non-stop in the Butler Building working on my stop-mo set and in the lab for 7 hours today. Tomorrow I have a 5 page essay to write then rush over to the Butler and try to get as much done as possible

I have 3 films, 3 essays, some animation tests, all due in the upcoming weeks. It is beyond stressful

My puppet looks really cool!!! But her right arm has broken off 4 times :( and I need to perform surgery on her tomorrow and will post pictures of everything

I'm also working on a 3D cut out stop-mo film

and my final presentation film that I need to present to my mentor that I haven't started on at all but will get done!

This is my Intuitive Assignment. The assignment was to animate to sound

That 7 second animation took me 7 hours!!! Why? because I suck at flash and it was my 1st time doing hand drawn lip sync!!! This was also a result:

ambar

Week 11? Or is this Week 10... crap

Ok I have no idea what week this is, all I know is that there are 4 more weeks of classes!!!

I have a ton of stuff to do

(After Effefts puppet walk, Stop-mo short, Stereoscopic short, plus a 1 min short film, and a animating to sound test)

Ahhhh



anyways here are some stuff to look at

and here was my assignment for my Intuitive class

The assignment was to have certatin things come in on different times and use the space of your screen

and now I have a ton of laundry to do, finish my puppet, work in after effects, start collecting cardboard, and might go to Toy Theater in LA tonight!

ambar

Week 9 Week 10

I am getting really bad at updating this

and my Animator of the week only lasted one week! i'll get back into that (someday)

I've been watching a lot of erotic films lately at the film library and having small life crisis's but it's all normal

I have nothing to really post for this week, we are building puppets in stop-mo and they have to be done, completely DONE by friday!!! I need to remember to take pictures of my work

then I have a hand drawn animation that is really hard due on Thurs :(

there are more assignments (readings, after effects tests...)

but for now I am trying to get everything done. I need to get off this lab computer because my eyes are extremely blurry from animating a spinning wheel.


p.s. these are all the films i've watched lately not all of them are erotic
and the reason i've been watching so many is because i need inspiration for my fetish film but also because I am stressed out of my mind and watching films is the only thing that can relax me

 Le Trou (1960)

dir. Jacques Becker

 The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

dir. Roman Polanski

 The Craft (1996)

dir. Andrew Fleming

 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Russ Meyer

Mondo Topless (1966)

dir. Russ Meyer

 Darling (1965)

dir. John Schlesinger

Femina Ridens (1969)

dir. Piero Schivazappa

ambar

Week 7 & Week 8

Blogging at 4 am on the school computer

Finished some tests, I don't have much to post

This was my week 7 Intuitive Assignment:

This week for Stop-mo our assignment was to draw a character sheet for the puppets we're going to start building for our end of the semester short! I ended up changing mine and am going to do a short story about a punk girl.

I've also been doing a bunch of tests for my end of the year hand drawn animation which is really really hard :(

Here is one of them:

That one is almost done I just need to fix the timing on the blinking, color, but It is almost done.

Tomorrow is the Suzan Pitt screening and I should probably get off since I have class in 4 hours and 40 mins!!

ohh! and here is my Halloween costume

Uncle Artie from pete and pete!!!


ambar

Week 6

I've realized that the only reason I blog at this time, half awake is because if I was more awake I'd be doing more work.  These are my animations for this week (Week 6 of school)

Our Stop-Mo assignment for this week was Replacement animation and a camera move

This is my first EVER lip sync, I think I like it now but at the time my puppet was falling all over the place, I couldn't get the tripod to shoot down, this was a very very VERY stressful shoot.  But here it is, My Poly Styrene animation test:

My New Intuitive Assignment for this week, we picked out random words from books then had to make and animation from it. Some of the words were: British, Artist, Mistake

And since I liked my last week's Intuitive assignment background so much I decided to re-do it in flash. I'm happy with how it came out!

ambar

Sleepy

Here are the 2 tests I made this week:

This one was for my Intuitive class, the assignment was to create a background have something moving within it. Seeing it now I now I could have had more objects moving within at different speeds. I'd like to re-do it.... someday

and my Stop-Mo assignment was having 2 SFX, I hardly ever work with clay so bare with me..

I can't say I've made any tests so far that I love, I'm going to spend this weekend sleeping, watching films, and doing homework. I miss watching films so much so I'm going to spend a day at the Film Library to refresh my brain.


ambar

Some updating

Had a friend stay the past 4 days in which I had a ton of homework to do.

Went to the Jules Engel RedCat screening where they screened his films along with CalArts student film from the 70's that were SOOO good.

Now Here is my stop-mo short for last week (We had to create a Loop)
I'm not sure if I like mine, it was a hard object to animate, and I couldn't quite line it up back to frame one to create the full loop

Then I slowed down my other animation for my Intuitive class:

And! Here is me in the Mr.Brainwash 2011 Art Show in LA
I made the piece while I was there with the only art supplies I had on me

Got super dusty and sweaty, I had so much fun! They will be exhibiting all the work at the end of October which reminds me, I need to get my CalArts Halloween costume ready...


that's it for now, i'm considering starting a "Animator a Week" thing or something..

ambar

Birthday Blog

Spent a fun day in LA, ate calamari and (finally) watched the Kevin Hart stand up special in theaters!

Also, my desk got violated.

Thanks Jamie and Isabela <3

and this was from my sis!!!

I miss my baby cat Kira soo much! I love her so so so much :(


I'M 20 NOW. yeeeah.

ambar

Life at CalArts

I miss watching films so bad!
My daily homework list consists of:

History of Animation reading
Writing Arts Reading
Intuitive Animation due
Stop-Mo test due

plus whatever assignments my mentor gives me for my 1st year film.

Everything is starting to calm down a little, and I can't wait to start animating for my end of semester film!

I really want to decorate my cube, and get all my homework done so I can have some free animating time

and here are some tests (keyword "TESTS" i've done at calarts so far. Don't judge me!!!)

and thanks to blogger for uploading the crappiest quailty video of my animations! thanks a lot >:(
but you get the point...


ambar

CalArts BFA-1 Schedule

NEW schedule (sorta)

FRIDAY night... yeah

Homework time.


ambar

Texas --- CalArts! :Roadtrip

Took about 2 days to drive from Texas to Cali - Tried taking photos and a piece of my life got complete at the Pee-Wee dino's. SOOO cool.

I am at CalArts, in my dorm. So far everything has been good. The people here are all super nice and friendly. The pool is great. My schedule is exciting! The teachers are exciting!

Everything feels nice right now and I can't wait to pour my life into this school.

I will be posting more it's hard to sneek in some blogging time :(

But I will have pics of my dorm, my schedule, and hopefully some nerdy CalArts pride pics.

ambar