Animals walking to running cycles

I found a very useful GIF that really shows all the different types of movement a four legged animal can move.

In this GIF, it shows the different walking/running styles of a dog, with is very similar to most other four legged animals like a cat and horse. I will soon create my own four legged animal to preform some of these movements like the walk and gallop/run.

Finished Running Cycles

I have now finished the running cycles for my character Oliver.

I found that with the running cycles, the front view was harder to draw. I still found it fun to draw.

Storyboarding done

I have finished drawing all my images I need for my animanic. Now I can time it accordingly.

I have now added sound and timed my animatic. It is done. Yay. This is the animanic.

 I am really proud of this animanic. My first aminanic. Feel happy.

Finished Walk cycles

These are the finished walk cycles

I have the front view finished first. This includes secondary motion with the hair and jewel. I found this pretty simple and easy to achieve. Now the side view. I have done the side view. I found that making the secondary motion with this view was very hard to achieve. But I did my best.

I have now also finished the 3/4 view now. This was not as hard to draw as the side view but not as easy as the front view. I find that I am better an animating the front view. Especially with the secondary motion added as well.

 Now I have finished the walk cycle's for my character Silver Jewel

I have learned that I should not waste time with planing how to draw the character but instead just do it, when I know I can. But this is all just me learning and getting better.

Italian Films

Italian Neorealism

Italian neorealism emerged after the end of WW2 with the fall of Mussolini's government (fascist regime) in 1943. The neorealism movement was a response to the political struggles and terrible economy in Italy at the time. Neorealisam fought to uncover the truth of the widespread turmoil and suffering in Italy, including some social problems that come around because of the lack or awareness. Neorealism also criticises the view of society.

There were certain traits the neorealsim films had.

• Filming on location instead of sets
• Unprofessional actors
• Natural lighting
• Photography done in a documentary like fashion.
• Avoiding over editing that would be noticed
• Narratives were commonly focused on the poor or working class

There were two main neorealist film makers at this time, Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica.

Roberto Rossellini was well known for his war trilogy's. He created the films 'Rome Open City' (1945), 'Paisan' (1946), and 'Germany Year Zero' (1948). 'Rome Open City' is a drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome. This film got many international awards.

'Paisan' consists of 6 episodes, set in the time were Italy was being liberated from the Nazi's at the end of WW2.

'Germany Year Zero' takes a new view on the effects of war on Germany though the point of view of a 12 year old boy.

Vittorio De Sica created the well known film 'The Bicycle Thief' (1948). Many view this film as the best film of the neorealism film age. It shows us the effects of unemployment and post war conditions. 

Film review

Casablanca

Created by the Warner Bros.

Casablanca was a classical Hollywood film, because it had a 'Narrative structure'. This means that it had a structured and discernible beginning, middle, and end. Their was linear chains of cause and effect events. Also, their was also a resolution at the end of film. By looking at the film itself, I am unsure on if any other classical Hollywood film techniques wire used.

I did enjoy the film, and the plot line was one I had never seen before. I do think that this film could still be recognized as a very well made film till this day. I would recommend this film to others to not only see a unique plot line, but to also see the history hidden inside the film with in being made within WW2.

I didn't recognize any 'famous' quotes from the film, but that might be due to my lack of seeing  very many films at all. Others might have recognized same quotes.

Plan artwork

I have created a plan for my artworks I will finish

I will use these plans to make the better and nicer version.

Maya Plants

I have created Planets in the Maya program

I added some craters on the moons surface and added different light effects to make it cooler. I also animated the Earth and moon to spin on it's axes. The moon also orbited around the Earth.

And yes, we are on the map. Recognized. Go New Zealand. Yay. Good.

Art

Some shadow art

Golden Age of Animation

Golden age of American Animation

The animators of the time were Disney, Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros, MGM and Terrotoons. I will be talking about Disney. 1)

Disney

Still widely known as the most well known animation studios of all time, Disney created the first short film animation with jass-music playing instead of the characters specking called 'Steamboat Willie' (1920). This film introduced the iconic character Micky and Mini mouse.

       >2) Mickey mouse in 'Steamboat Willie'



This kick started Disney huge animation career. They then created the series called the 'Silly Symphonies'. This had many different short films starting with 'The Skeleton Dance' (1929). The most famous silly was the story about the 'Three Little Pigs' (1933) and the top song for years after, "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?". The sillies also introduced the most loved and famous character Donald Duck in 'The Wise Little Hen' (1934). Donald Duck's design has changed over time as seen in this film.


        >3) Donald Duck's first appearance in 'The Wise Little Hen'




After the sillies, Disney started to look at creating animation that looked more realistic, creating the short film 'The Old Mill' (Mill). Disney went on to create their feature films, starting with 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' (1937), up to 'Lady and the Tramp' (1955).

References
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films 
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDAM1O5WBUc 
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnPhX1Hgau0