Vocabulary of Animation

Vocab

Displacement mapping: cause an effect where the actual geometric position of points over the textured surface are displaced.

Bumping mapping: a technique in Maya where you create bumps and wrinkles in the surface of an object.

Rendering: a translation.

Alpha channel: is the process of combining an image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency.  

NURBS vs Polygons: NURBS: Compatibility of creating organic, flowing surfaces such as animals, human bodies, and fruit. Industrial surfaces such as automobiles, clocks, and toasters. 

                                                     POLYGONS: Can be simple shapes, such as polygon primitives.

Tiling: 1. The action of laying tiles.

                  2. A surface covered by tiles. 

Skinning: An outer layer. 

Aperture: A space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument. 

Shutter speed: Effective length of time a camera's shutter is open. 

Focal length: The distance between the center of the lens or curved mirror and its focus. 

Dolly: Create smooth camera movements. 

Pan: Swing (a video or movie camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject. 

Roll Aspect Ratio: Describes the proportional relationship between its height and its width.      

Update for you all.

Hey there you guys. Sorry about not really posting anything lately. It's finals week and it's just  preparation for finals. It's been just a lot and I haven't really been doing any work in Animation cause my other classes are a little more important on the scale so that's why I haven't been really posting anything at all cause I haven't been doing a whole lot. I got like a huge stack of homework and study guides and this just isn't as important as my other classes so yeah. Just trying not to loose my mind in all these papers. And O hey it's also my 17th birthday today. So I am officially 17 now and moving up in the world and in life so yes. Today's a good day for me but I especially hope that all of you are having a good day to.

Awkward Shape 2

Hey there you guys so o my! UGH!! I'm honestly so frustrated right now, this class seems to get harder and harder. But I know things aren't supposed to be easy all the time in life but man this animation class is pushing me to the edge it feels like. I can't figure out some of these things and when someone in the class tries to help me, it's like they are speaking another language that is alien to me. It's just so ridiculous. I honestly think I like Photoshop over Maya. I like Maya when I can just explore for myself but I don't like it when it's someone else trying to explain it to me. I like my teacher don't get me wrong but this class is harder than my level 3 Japanese, and that's a problem. A NEW LANGUAGE SHOULD BE HARDER THAN A COMPUTER CLASS! Do you think so? Agree or disagree? But anyway didn't even get far in class today but here is really all I did today. Tried to get my lighting but camera flipped weird or something and all jacked up. So yeah anyway yeah alright bye you guys.

Lighting

Howdy y'all! Just kidding. So today we started working on this shape that we had to make using vertices. As you can see to the left here, it did come out pretty awkward. But so we have to basically render this thing, and don't ask what render means cause I really don't know haha :). But we have to render this shape so there is light that bounces of it and causes a shadow. We basically have to put value and a spotlight on it to make it look like it is in a spotlight scene. The shape is supposed to look like metal but mine came out kind of weird looking but it still looks good, kind of... But that is really all we did today. Time is wrapping up. We get out June 6th so time is coming to a close and summer is coming to a start! So excited to get out of school. I need a break from all the stress of school. I gotta say this year was rocky at points but it was still good as some spots of the year. I just hope I pass with all great grades cause I'm fighting it in Japanese. Wish me luck you guys, cause I'm gonna need it. But have a great day everyone. BYE!

Claw #1

Hey you guys so here is another project that we are working on. I call it "The Claw," even though it technically isn't a claw. But it's a magnet claw I guess. But so far all I got done right now is just having the claw off of the instructions and the box. I have the wire frame too now. (That is the scene or picture, whatever you wanna call it at the bottom). So basically what we are gonna have to do in this project is have the claw animate or put animation on the claw so that it reaches down and picks up the box below it. And then it has to move the box, or swivel around, and place the box down again. But there are a couple of joints that we have to animate so that it looks like a real crane moving and not a broken crane trying to swivel around. This might be the second hardest project I have had to do in this class. The first hardest would have to be this Luke Skywalker lightsaber we have to create from scratch. Not too happy about doing that but I almost got my 20 reference pictures for it, and yes I said 20. And did you know that you can only get so much before you either run out of pictures or you just start running into duplicates. Yeah not easy to find but I got six more to find so it's all good. But yeah that  is all I did today was the crane and the aircraft so I hope you enjoyed these posts today. Goodbye

Aircraft

Howdy there y'all! Sorry just had to do that to you guys. :) But hey so today here is one of almost our last projects. It is of an aircraft that flies around the line and then lands from where it started. So basically like all the other posts this week, the bar below is the animation flow of the aircraft. The aircraft speeds up at about 186 and really just zooms off. Still wish I could post videos or something. I think I got it figured out, I just gotta do it now. But yeah that is it for now. Tune back onto this website/blog to see some more stuff. School year is coming to an end but I don't think I'm gonna stop posting. So until next time, bye!

Something I just made.

So hey there guys! So this is just something that I just got bored and made in class one day. It starts off as just a little box but grows into the humongous thing that shrinks and then spreads out and disappears. This is my favorite part of it, that's why I took a snapshot of this specific part. The bar below it with all the colors is the animation flow of the animation. It's really crazy and weird once it got more advanced, as you can see. The more the color, the more complex it got with the animation. The object consists of planes, squares, circles and spheres, and so much more. Everything moves and everything grows and shrinks and expanses. There is just a lot of animation that went into this. So I hope you enjoyed another still picture. I wish I could take a video and post it on here... Hmm I actually might try to do that but okay bye!