In my search for some royalty-free music that might work with my story idea, I stumbled across another Brad. Brad Sucks. This Brad is a ‘one-man band with no fans’. His first album “I Don’t Know What I’m Doing” is doing really well, apparently and is completely downloadable online as a way to get people […]
Tonight we had to pitch our ideas for our short film. Our project is to run between 30 seconds to a minute long. It’s difficult to trim down ideas and tell a concise story in that amount of time.
I even got too carried away and have two characters in the concept as it stands now. […]
Tonights acting class at bang. was a bit of a struggle. We had to create a character by first thinking of a phase that is your character’s inner mantra or life thought. Think like: “I should be happy because life is beautiful.” Then we were to think of what kind of character might use this […]
This week I’ve been setting up my new computer. I went and got a Dell XPS 400. I’ve been having all sorts of troubles with my machine, and this should really solve these issues. The new machine has dual processors and dual monitors. Yea!! I’ve been trying to intall an FTP program, but I haven’t […]
So this evening we had to present our short story ideas. For our last two classes at AnimationMentor we need to create a story, and animate a short for the final little catch in a good demo reel. The trick is to make something that really sells the characters and is something that is captivating […]
Tonight was actually my third acting class in my second session at bang. Things have been going great This session is really about character. We have been exploring ways to find a characters personality and really stretch into a different persona. One method is to really stretch and exaggerate your face and then choose […]
Yesterday I attended the Pitch Presentation for the Animation Co-op. This is a group of artists that are organizing databases, resourses and experiences related to the creation of animated films. Most interesting to me was a short about animals playing jazz insturments in a pet store after closing time. This was being worked on at […]
New Class.It’s Class 05 at AnimationMentor.It’s been a year since the schools opening. So many amazing things have happened in that time.
This term is Short Film Pre-Production,and it involves really digging in and planning a 30 second ’short film’.This is reaslly to showcase our animation skils and also to show that we are filmmakers as […]
