Weekly Comments

   It's only been three weeks now and I've already learned more than I could have hoped for in my high school year. It's been so exciting to learn more about animation and it just makes me hope to get into the field even more. This week we mainly covered color harmonies, the importance color gives to the mood of every scene, and principles of animation. I've known that color can give moods, but I never realized how often it's used in animation. After this I'll never look at movies the same. It's opened up my eyes to see the many different harmonies in every scene. The twelve basic principles of animation that we've learned really helped me understand animation broken down and I will always keep it in mind when I animate in the near future. 

   As for what I'd like to learn, I just hope I can learn how to use color harmonies to my advantage. It's easier to learn them on paper than it is to actually achieve a propper combination that sets the correct mood for the viewer. 

   What frustrated me this week has been blog posts for sure. I've gotten used to Animate Pro for the most part and ultimately the way the class is orginized, but I'm still not the best at blogging. It's a little difficult writing your own opinion when you've been writing about other's all of high school. But I definitely understand that this will prepare me and hopefully I'll get the hang of it. 

  I've found a video demonstrating the twelve basic principles in a series of short animations. It's basically what we've learned already but provides different and simplistic demonstrations. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CBMQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbHfDEsNLg34%26autoplay%3D1&ei=PJwcVKDIHIadugSryoGABw&usg=AFQjCNH8etWkUNRwgbFJdcCd6xNZSpVGmg&sig2=X7s5Rgt6w0jzr1glUcZw-A