Weekly Comments Part 1

This first full week in Digital Media has been exciting, even though we only made still pictures. I'm really excited for the big projects to start up.

I learned a lot about animation this past week, like I had very little idea about all the beginning history of animation. I had just thought that it was all flipping pictures like a flip book, not all this paleolithic carvings and spinning cylinders. It was cool to learn.

Something I'm excited to learn about in the future is the actual way to making moving products with sounds and all that jazz. Unlike probably most of the class, I'm very new to this and learning the basics (while everyone else is like, "Ugh I already know this").

Something that made me frustrated this week is something that always makes me frustrated, technology... Nothing ever works for me (at least at home, it's a miracle my computer is letting me type this right now). That actually brings me to something that made me happy this week, technology. This sounds contradictory, but believe me, it is. Technology has made me happy as well because of how well the BOCES computers and internet works.

So, link of interest... Pretty helpful stuff...
(By that I mean kids smashing their faces against stuff).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
It's a 1951 Atom bomb training video that I stumbled across a couple of years ago
What does it have to do with animation? The turtle part...
Also remember to cover the back of your neck with your face.