Drawing with David Cope 26-09-07

This course was presented as a fine art course we were shown a set of images to reflect the life of the tutor and we had to draw conclusions on what he had done with his life he then gave us a lecture on oppositions and the difference between an icon and a symbol.
we then did an ice breaking exercise.
draw images to represent your self and images to represent your journey to college.
then draw an image to represent a word we were given I was given fragile.
I did not acquit my self very well on the ice breaking exercise my understanding of the brief was poor.

Handed trapped 25-09-07

Today we were handed our cell animation project trapped. This was to be a group prodution.

My initial toughts on the brief were that it would be easy.

After brainstorming story ideas we picked stuck in a box. We then ran though a story board and it started to become apparent that there maybe more work than it looked like at first

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Cel animation pm 25-09-07

This is a session that allows us to proceed with our projects but also we are to bring in animations to look at. We saw: Steam boat willy, a live action and and animation combination from the 1920's. The old animations have a lovely unreal charm.

Trapped 25-09-07

we continued to work on our cell animation projects Peter reviewed our progress and was concerned that we were not all taking part he suggested that we work on our initial designs for our characters. As we had mostly agreed on our story board. He said we were getting on and seemed pleased with our progress. While I felt that I was driving the group quite hard I could see the project deadline looming every day spent on planing is one day we can't spend drawing.

history of design 24-09-07

got given project on the de stijl art movement. To be done in a group. other groups have been given other movements we have to present and produce a 1000 words I understand that the main artist to represent the movement is Mondrian. I have never seen the appeal of geometric abstraction so I am going to have to work hard on this I did record what Susan had to say on my movement so we may be OK at last I may have a chance not to really stuff up by saying something she really disagrees with with no evidence.

study skills 24-09-07

lecture on presentation skills Susan presented the reading we had been asked to do as we will have to do for our art movement project we that marked her speaking the class was very mean and aggressive and marked her down heavily this does not bode well for our marks on the presentation element of the module.

First introduction to cell animation

Tuesdays are cell animation all day we were lectured on the different types of animation.
Mostly I knew this material.
We were also briefed on the use of the animation camera and associated software. The use of the hole punch and animation pegs

First Day

I had to skip the first day for child care reasons. Not good!
During our induction we had been given an extract from Adrian Forty 'objects of desire' to read for the afternoon session on History of design. I really did not like the article I did not agree with it in several respects though the main point ,that design is only relevant to it's societal context, is one I regard as bleeding obvious.

My First Post

Hi
This is a reflective diary for an animation course.
I will be including some work and some analysis some of my notes etc.
I hope that this process will make me a better animator and a clearer thinker about animation.
I am not expecting anyone other than me to gain from this process.
Initially I am going to be writing what has happened in the past three weeks I hope to catch up.
The blog should be many short posts so that I can tag them by project and subject as well as by week.
Regards Zac