Emotional Drinking

Our 'Emotional Drinking) pixilation from todays class :)

Potato guy's Turn :)

3D Animation Assessment

bouncing snail + mad scientist

Videos i found on the weekend.

<<<This one made us scream in class.

<<<This one is about a blind girl. but its very cute.

<<<This one is sad. The silhouette style reminds me of Lydia's powerpoint presentation last week.

RAAAAWR.

ESCARGOT

'I like Animation' Character

Long shirt and scarf. Cause i get cold easily :P

Matador Poses :)

Cowardly Custard Productions Present....

The Diapered Desperados! :)

Progress so far!

Snail character in Maya -.-

No mouth animation :)

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GRRrrrrrr.

Character Design

My cowboy baby
Be careful, he's a badass ;)

Also, i just set this up if anyone is interested in having a quick look :) http://michelletierney.daportfolio.com/
byyyyyeee :):)

Animation

Art History Quiz

1. Which studio produced the two short animated films featured today?

Warner Bros. Pictures

2. Who directed the two films?

Chuck Jones

3. What were the names and dates of production of the two films?

'The Case of the Missing Hare' (1943

'Hubie and Bertie-The Aristo-cat' (1943)

4. Many of this director’s films in the 1930’s and 1940’s tried to imitate the

style of which famous studio?

Walt Disney's Shorts, especially 'Tom Thumb in Trouble' and the Sniffles cartoons.

5. Did he ever work at that studio? (The studio that was the answer to the

previous question)

When Warner closed their Animation Studio, Jones worked at Disney for 4 months in 1959 with Ward Kimbell, on 'Sleeping Beauty'.

6. After directing a film in 1942 he broke away into a new style of animation

humour and design. From the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s the animation

style and design in his films and characters were a leading influence in

animation history. What features of his style of animation and design made

his work stand out?

His style was less realistic than Disney's and was more cartoony.

7. Remember that Brad Bird, director of

Giant’

animated feature film

which cartoon by the animator you are researching today? (Film title and

year please)

Feed the Kitty (Feb2, 1952)

8. Is that cartoon, the one you answered in the previous question, one of

Frank’s favourite cartoons?

‘The Incredibles’ and ‘The Iron, paid homage to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston… In the Pixar‘Monsters Inc’ (2001), the directors paid homage toYes. Yes it is.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

My Ergonomics Poster !! :)
 Arrgggh me hearty! LOL

Also, here's a pic im working on :S

It started out as a sketch but i wanted to color it in photoshop, but i left my scanner at home D:
So i took a pic with my camera, urrggggh the quality is so bad and looked horrible with colors. So, since im too lazy to re draw it in photoshop, i wanted to try and color it black&white, because i suck at colors and i don't think I've ever done a B&W pic before. So far i think it looks good, even tho if you zoom in, you can see how bad the lines are haha

Library Orientation

Animation Gold Nuggets found on our treasure hunt:

1. Two books from Shaun Tan found in the SBIT library are 'The Bird King' and 'The Arrival'.

2. On Level 2 is where the journals are kept, including 'Animation Magazine'. I was extremely happy to find the 'ImagineFX' magazines :D

3. Yes, a librarian can help you. Some info is available on the Library homepage under 'Teacher Resources'.

4. Frank and Ollie's 'The Illusion of Life' is shelved on the third floor.

5.Richard William's 'The Animator's Survival Kit' is available on the third floor and also the lecture series on DVD is available.

6. Paris: Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris.

7. Miyazaki films available are:

-Laputa
- Spirited Away
-Howl's Moving Castle
-Castle of Cagliostro

- Kiki's Delivery Service

-Porco Rosso

- Nausicaa: Valley of the Winds

 8. Yes. Yes I did >:)

Class questions, Answered.

-Who is the Animator with the Gorilla?
Ray Harryhousen

-What style of animation did he work in?
Special Effects Animation (or Stop-Motion)

-Name two films he animated and year.
The Story of the Tortoise & the Hare (2003)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

On how Ray filmed his skeleton scene:

"The way I understand the skeleton fight scene, it was accomplished by using a single frame rear screen projection of the actor fighting the air. Each frame was projected onto the rear screen. Ray H. then animated his skeletons, one frame at a time in front of the rear screen projection of the actor. A camera was placed and focused so that it could capture the skeleton and the rear screen image together."

(http://www.likeastory.com/boards/cgi/noncgi/Forum8/HTML/000559.html)

Bouncing Ball Animation+

So on Monday we started using Adobe Flash to animate some bouncing balls.

In the 10th grade I spent some time learning to use Flash, which I've completely forgot everything I had learnt, but somehow i managed to create this :D

Moving on, i spoke to my big sister who lives in Norway last night. She's been begging me to draw a picture of her and her husband for ages, so i showed her what i had so far. She didnt like it :/

She thinks her husband looks to asian (he's Norwegian) so she want me to redo it. No ****ing way :/

I had so much trouble trying to draw him, i have no idea why. His hair is what really annoyed me. It was that hard I refused to draw him again lol so she wanted me to draw something more like this, of them:

 Next time I'm charging her :P

One more thing, I recently discovered this amazing artist. Skan Srisuwan. I always get really happy when i find Thai artists, I dont know why, maybe because my mum is from Thailand or because I havent really heard of famous Thai artists :S

This is the first of his artworks that i saw:

Most of his artworks are a mixture of human and mechanical designs. You can check out more of them on his website here http://www.fiduciose.net/

:)

Frank & Ollie

                                        'The Friendship that changed the face of Animation'.

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston were two core animators at Walt Disney Productions, who were involved in some of Disney's most famous works. The last two of Disney's 'Nine Old men' to pass away, they had animated a large amount of well known characters from many films. Frank and Ollie do cameos in both of Brad Bird's films 'The Iron Giant' and 'The Incredibles', this was Bird's tribute to the two of them and Disney's Nine Old Men.

At the end of 'The Incredibles' film, Frank and Ollie appear watching the heroic acts of The Incredibles.
Frank: Hey you see that? That's old school. That's the way you do it.
Ollie: No school like the old school.

Frank animated the famous Spaghetti scene from 'The Lady and the Tramp', while Ollie animated 'Lady' throughout most of the film.

The Lady and the Tramp

Walt Disney first came up with the idea for "The Lady and the Tramp' when Joe Grant, who also happens to be one of the main ideas people, approached him with some sketches of his dog named Lady. 

In 1943, Walt read Joe Grant's story in Cosmopolitian called 'The Cynical Dog' which further helped him further develope his idea for the movie. Joe Grant is the second main idea person.

The film was made in 1955 and released in 1956.

Update ^^

Randomly felt like updating my blog :3
What did i do today..?
Nothing !! :D

 So tired ! :)
But keen as for tomorrow haha

Welcome to my Blog! :)

Hey, I'm Michelle and welcome to my Blog :)
I come from a small town called Weipa and am now living in Brisbane, studying Animation at SBIT.

Some of my favourite styles of animation would be Tim Burton's dark and creepy, yet unique characters in his films. Im also a big fan of realistic/semi-realistic animation, like in the 'Final Fantasy' franchise, Kingdom Hearts etc. Animation with sketchy lines are also one of my faves if their done well, like this video ;)

This animation was one of the first things to inspire me to become an Animator :)
I used to be an Anime-addict and thats really influenced my style of art, but i want to try and create more realistic artworks/animations.
My attempt at trying to draw more realistic -.-

2D and 3D animation films from Dreamworks, Disney etc are styles i would like to attempt one day,eg Shrek, How to Train your Dragon, Legends of the Guardians, Princess and the Frog etc :)

Well, my post is long enough now ( i think?), so thanks for reading :P