Animated Life Lessons

P2T7 Blossom Learns Soccer from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is an animation. My teammates are Blossom Novoa and Jaesha Mata. Blossom's personal traits are thinking outside of the box, also very
adventurous and very creative. When I first met Blossom I was really shy but she was really open and wasn't afraid to be herself. After a couple of days I opened up to Blossom and I'm more out-going in front of her. Blossom is really nice and funny, she can also be really courageous and silly but can be shy and awkward. We plan on exaggerating her traits by making her character play a really awkward and shy girl that could use some friends. My other teammate is Jaesha. Jaesha is kind and silly. Jaesha is the type of person that doesn't care about what other people think of her, she is also really fun to be around. Jaesha is friendly and very optimistic. We plan on making exaggerating her traits by making her character be a very friendly person who gets kicked in the face by Blossom with  a soccer ball but is still friendly and kind to Blossom.

Jaesha and I

Blossom and I

Our animation is humorous because Jaesha gets kicked in the face and Blossom has a funny way of playing soccer. I think it will make our audience laugh because people like laughing at fail videos so that's kind of how we wanted to play out. Our life lesson or message relates my audience because it's an animation about not giving up and a lot of people give up at some points so I think our story relates to our audience because we want people to know that giving up is okay but we don't always have to give up. It's also about how not to give up and to believe in yourself and that you can do anything as long as you put your mind on it. Our animation is a life lesson because you can't always do things and accomplish them but you can try as long as you have faith in yourself. We chose to make our animation about not giving up because we can all relate. We all have had a moment in our life when we've wanted to give up.

Story Board

The level of productivity was a challenge in making this animation. Most of us didn't know how to animate and we were behind schedule. My teammates were frustrated that we couldn't get this done on time so they started getting mad at the person who did the less work. Communicating was also a big challenge, we've never talked altogether before so that was a big challenge because we were shy. The biggest challenge we faced was animating. Like I said most of us didn't know how to animate, puppet warp was hard because we didn't know what we were planning on doing for the scene. The best moment we had during this production was the laughs. We had a lot of laughs, recording was a really funny moment. We had to do screaming noises, loud cheers and

Story Board

Story Board

Critique Results

Story Board

Character Development

The latest project my G.T class is working is puppet warp and an animation. So now is my annual intro paragraph. I'm going to describe myself... YIPEE!!! So first, I'm a really energetic out-going person, but maybe a little too energetic. A funny imperfection I have is my laugh. A lot of people have cute nice laughs, but my laughs are over the top and LOUD. Either way I love my laugh. A lot of imperfections people think they have is their looks. Other things that describe me is caring, funny, cool, and etc... I'm the type of person that a lot of people like to hang out with and like to go to with problems because I'm always there to help them. I'm also a shy person who tends to laugh when I talk or I can be a really energetic person around my friends.

The character traits I plan to exaggerate while animating myself is an energetic person and happy person. I plan to do so by positioning my arms in a certain way but I was smiling in the picture so that's how I plan to make myself energetic and happy. I want a shy point of view to express the real me... A shy person. I think of myself of a shy person because when I'm around new people or people I don't really know I tend to smile and laugh when I talk or not talk at all. When I'm playing sports and when I'm around my friends I'm a really energetic person. I plan to tilt most of my body parts in a certain way to make myself look shy but my smile tends to show my happy and energetic side. I want to be able to make myself look shy, energetic and happy. I plan to do this by body positioning and facial expressions.

To finish my .Gif project I first had to take pictures with three different body movements, then I had to cut out my body in Photoshop. After I had cut out my body I had to make myself smaller on the screen and crop the picture to make it smaller. After cropping I had to make sure my height was 720 px my width was 640 px and my resolution was 300 px/in. Then I had to make my frames, after making my frames I can now get into puppet warp. I place my pins on any part of my body that can move then I can start moving my body parts to do weird motions. I then make sure its looping so my .Gif goes on and on. After I then can apply my background, my background is a picture of the beach that I took. I really like my .Gif because my looping is pretty good and my puppet warp isn't too crazy and isn't too small.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey... The latest project my G.T class is working on is Polar and Spherical Panos. It's pretty hard to do, so I'm trying my best to make my panos look good. First I'm going to be talking about composite images. Composite images are important because it takes a bunch of photos and makes it into one. They're also important because it's a way to make to tell the viewer a story through other over lapping photos.

Polar and Spherical Panos have a bunch of similarities but there are some differences. When making a spherical pano you have to turn it upside down but when making a polar pano you don't have to turn it. Polar Panos process photos into unique pieces of art. It takes a panoramic (or landscape) photo and uses the Polar Coordinates filter of Photoshop to create a circular image that seems to wrap the panorama around a planet. Spherical Panos

What makes my finished tiny worlds convincing? Well, first I have a shadow that makes it look like my actual shadow and in my opinion the panos look like a tiny planet. It also convincing because I used actual sites that people might've seen before so when I make it into a polar or spherical pano it looks convincing. The way I edited it also makes it look real, I edited my photos in adobe bridge so I had to over-exaggerate about the colors and scenery.
 

                                                                                                   

Hockney Style Joiners

Well I'm back from a three day weekend, it seemed like a long weekend but it was actually pretty short. Anyways, the latest project my G.T. class is working on is photomontages. Now, I'm gonna tell you why David Hockney's photomontages are different from mine. First my photomontages are beginner pictures. I'm kind of getting a hang of this photomontage thing... From the looks of his photos it seems like he spends a lot of time on his work and it looks well thought out. I feel like his photos have more meaning, and theres something special about the photos. We all have different ideas about what we our photomontages to look like, so I think thats why I our photomontages are different.

Lots of different photos have different meanings, they can be positive or negative. First I'll start with positive, positive means good or no doubts. So on Instagram I see a lot of positive pictures, like #prayforparis of other things for like friends of communities. Even though theres a lot of positive pictures there is also negative photos. When I go on Instagram some people say things about other people that they won't have the guts to say to there face. People also say bad things about other people that might not be true, or they might post bad pictures.

Well my picture is a soccer ball, so I want people to see my picture meaningful because I love soccer. Our photomontage is supposed to be a picture of something meaningful or special to you. Soccer is special to me because I've been playing it since 2009, over the years I've become a more passionate player. The message I want to send is a positive message saying I really love soccer and I wouldn't know what to do without it. soccer is my go-to, whenever I get bored or I don't want to do anything else I go outside and play soccer. Hopefully people can see how much I love soccer, and maybe they can try it out someday.

2016 Aspirations

Well here we are again, back at school. After a long break I get to start a new semester and quarter. First I will start with five goals I want to achieve in 2016. My first goal is to become a better soccer player and score more goals. I always so close to scoring goal. Second I want to be able to rope just as good as my cousin. My cousin always wins rodeos. Third I want to be able to take nice and creative photos. I want my Instagram to look more artsy. Fourth I want to have good editing skills. I also want to make nice videos for my Instagram. Lastly I want to get A's in the classes I get B's in. I want to become a straight A student, I'm always like one or two B's away from an A. Hopefully I will succeed in getting these goals done.

The goal I want to achieve the most is editing. I want to be able to have good editing skills. Achieving this goal is important to me because my cousins and aunty have a business called a clan called chaos. They fly drones over Kauai and make edits, they also make commercials for local businesses. I want to become like them and be good at what they do. Maybe someday I can work with them or start my own company. I want to be able to make edits as good as them and hopefully become famous for edits.I also want to learn how to make good edits because it seems like everyones doing it, it's also a good way to show the videos I take with my GoPro.

I really want to achieve this goal. To make sure I succeed I'm going to make steps or ways I can learn. The first way I can learn is by watching my aunty and cousins edit a video. They do mostly nature. I want to be able to edit under water beach edits. None of them don't really swim but my brother is really good at edits too!! He says it takes practice, so I'm gonna edit a bunch of videos until I know what I want it to look like or until I get better. He also said he learned from the internet. First I have to choose an app to use. My brother personally uses the GoPro app but my cousins use iMovie or Final Cut Pro. I want to use iMovie because I have more experience with it. Hopefully my plans for being more better at editing videos is useful and works.

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