This year I have had the opportunity to learn tons about web design. I have learned how to animate through web code. That was of the harder of the projects.  I have had a fun time in this class but I will end up going to animation next year for my junior. Although I will still continue to learn lots about web design, because web design binds everything together.

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We started in fourth quarter uploading some of our better websites to the internet. It was called our index. The index holds some of my best webpages that I made consisting of some of the animations, the past present and future websites. I plan on going to many royals games this summer.  I think in eComm next year I would do more focus on animation.

Animation Blog Final

These past couple of weeks we have been working on a final project in our animation class. I was in a group with Alex Gabel, Saif Jasim, Erick Vidal, and Brandon Daniels. Alex did the key frames for Erick, Saif helped with the finishing touches, Joey (me) made the 3D ship the video, Brandon drove the car,  Our project is about a car that drives by and someone feels the need to blow the crap out of the car. The video does a quick freeze frame when Erick Vidal snaps his fingers and it freezes, then a missile comes and blows up the  car. In our video we added an explosion sound effect, a snapping fingers sound effect.

We started with a storyboard, our original idea was to make a freeze frame before we got hit by a car.
But we wanted to be able to add more effects and more sound effects. So we did. After we came up with the idea of the video, we all went outside in the Olathe northwest parking lot. We spent about an hour outside recording. We spent about the next week on key framing our actor Erick. The picture below show a picture of the key framing Erick, if you look at where it says mask one those are all those keyframes we worked on with Erick. We had to do a moving mask which is where all the keyframe came from.

Adding the sound was a fun process, we had to find different exposition sound. It made us laugh listing to the different sounds the internet had. We listened to so many different sounds, we eventually found the perfect sounds for our video, the missile sound effect, the exposition sound effect, and the snapping of the fingers sound effect. We edited the wavelengths in each of the sound effects. We turned down the sound of the exposition, turned up the sound of the snap effect. In my opinion the sound effects were the best part in the video. It made us laugh a lot and it gave the video layers, just made it hilarious.

We learned lots on this project, in particular I learned a lot about key framing, since it took 100 years to do it, haha.  We needed to work better together, we can sometimes argue in our group, but in the end the we made it a pretty okay project. Our experience in this field was pretty good. Even though it was not our best project, we still have experience of effects that we can use for our next project.