\\\ Four Things That I Did Not Like About The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (Hunger Games 4) (SPOILERS)

Listed in Ascending Disliking Order

Jennifer Lawrence

Team Peeta won...

Prim Dies...

This Thing Killed My Absolute Favorite Character...

Cats Don't Procrastinate

This article provides steps on how people can beat their 'bad' procrastination habit. Step 1 tells people to take a step back and look at all you gotta do. Step 2 tells people to make a list of those things.   Step 3 tells people to stay off of social internet websites such as Facebook or Twitter. Step 4 tells people to accomplish to more difficult tasks first to avoid being overwhelmed. Step 5 tells people to pre-plan, planning things out always makes them less overwhelming ( oh! ^ ). Finally, Step 6 tells people to break it down, a big task is made of many little ones, just do the little tasks and BAM! big task done.

This article was very good at providing tips to procrastinators. However, I question if this was necessary. The only reason things have deadlines is because society has driven people to work harder and harder. Stressing about projects leads to an unhappy time. The more time you spend stressed and unhappy, the less you enjoy things (eg. life). I think society just needs to chill with the urgency.        "I mean YOLO, am I right?" Seeing as though this is the opinion part of the article, I'll say this, I don't think there should be this much pressure on so many people that this article needs to be created. In a perfect world (according to me) there shouldn't be a reason for anyone to post this article.

The Five (LETHAL) MISTAKES For New Film Makers

This-- article gives advice for those people who have recently started in the film making business. It lists five mistakes that new film makers may make. 1.Too much computer work, it gives the feeling that you're not actually making things. 2. Popular media, it says do what you want to do, not what's popular. 3. Needs more narrative, sure abstract can be cool, but you need to learn how to actually tell a story. 4. Fear, it tells you not to be afraid of failure and to not let that fear prevent you from actually creating. 5. Humility, just never think that you're perfect.

That's what the article (and the pretty much verbatim video) was all about, but here is what I thought of it...

I thought that the article was simple, but could be very effective for someone who literally knew absolutely nothing about creating films. A lot of this stuff I pretty much knew. However, one part I did disagree with the the not going with what is popular at the time. Sure, it may be more fun to create what you like, but you are just one person and the world is made of billions. What you like might not appeal to the masses. It might just be best for the time being to assimilate into popular culture. Although, it still is possible to get fans who support you for being you.

\\\Weekly Comments Part 6, for the week of Monday, September 14th\\\

That's right, wait..

Blogs are unfortunately back. Well, here it goes...

Something I've learned this week: The clone stamp tool is NOT the end all be all of photoshop.
What I hope to learn in the near future: I hope to learn more ways to mess with the faces of unsuspecting peoples' pictures on the internet through photoshop.
Something that frustrated me this week: Blogs started again this week.\\\\\
Something that mad me happy this week: That patch tool, oh boy. That thing works so well, it's just the best!
Link of interest: Knock Knock

I started my like 9001st skyrim character.

This past Sunday, I beat HeartGold.

Final Analysis and Reflection of Final Project\\\

    When I first read the script I imagined two people finding some sort of alien saucer on the sidewalk and it doing crazy-wacko things. I had started the storyboard with two elves (Christmas ones) as the characters. However, when I had realized that I couldn't draw elves to save my life I scraped the idea. Then I randomly thought of two characters, a larger fellow with the same outfit as the boss from Box Office and a Roman gladiator (which eventually became Joseph Dorato). These two characters instead of finding a saucer, find a timer bomb and you can guess what goes down after that.
    Although little I did include some principles of animation in my final. Two examples can be found in Joe's or the gladiator's head flair. Both follow through and squash-and-stretch can be seen throughout.
    I feel that my camera work, although simple, worked very well in this animation. It was a much better improvement than the actual camera movement tutorial we did ages ago. Also, my near-perfect representation of Joe into an animated character was absolutely phenomenal and could not be better drawn unless rotoscoping sorcery was utilized in the creation.
    My minimal use of animation principles in this project could see some improvement. Perhaps better staging or more subtle movement may have helped the "realistic" feel of the animation. My dwindling time was not a helpful factor in the creation of this animation, as I had to produce not up to par lip sync, which gives the animation a rushed feel to it.
    Overall, I think the project turned out well. I feel the the only thing that restricted the greatness it could have been was the strict script (try saying that 10 times) and the time limit. Unfortunately I relied to heavily on class time to complete the project. Next time, I would definitely plan ahead to allot myself more free time to work on a project like this. I've learned that animation and deadlines can lead to a "real tuff" time.
    One very negative comment I expect to hear is, "A very noticeable lack of Brady Scream."

Brady's very minimal references

Honestly for this project, I used VERY little references. I know hard to believe it.

Here is a short list of things I used to help sculpt the animation:

Gladiator- I used this image to help shape Joe's getup in the animation.
Mouth Chart- Instead of pulling up the paper that we got awhile back I used this image from the                         internet.
Box Office- This is my 3D short animation, I used the boss's outfit as the outfit for Character 2.
Grateful Dead logo- This is probably not noticeable at first glance, but I used a mock version of the                              Grateful Dead skull logo combined with the radioactive symbol on the toxic                                    waste at the end.
Spats Cat- I used this cat to help draw the totally non-existent cat in the animation.

The Only Link of Interest You Ever Need

Spongebob: (AND SOME OF THESE!) The....

BREAK TIME!!!

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... I'm sick of society...

This Week

This week was short, especially for me. We watched those presentations. By far the Lauren Faust one was the best. What will we do without BrownMan... :( Link of interest->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE&list=PLxoUahStZsJEMHbyYNwLo7nw3z5aifb-e&index=1

\\\Emotional Census\\\

This video pretty much took a bunch of people and hooked them up to MRIs and they showed them some videos and they saw how their brains reacted to each of them - whether it be exciting or boring.  They all thought the dog was pretty boring while the cowboy movie was fun. Then it sums it all up by saying that directors will try to make more exciting movies for our brains.

What I think about this is that you pretty much can't really change what entertains people. So like if you had people being bored while watching a dog run around, there's nothing you can really change about peoples' brains to make that dog entertaining.

\\\ WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BE AN ANIMATOR \\\

In this article, this guy is telling why you don't want to be an animator.  He says it's really boring and tedious.  He says you got to be really patient because it's boring.  Then he goes on to say it's not ALWAYS gonna work out.

My opinion about this is that you he's right and you don't want to be stuck doing something.  And if you're going to do something, make sure it entertains you.  This guy seems nice.

Drones\\\

This article about drones states it will change the way directors will go about making films (which is absolutely not true at all). The rest of the article is about the author learning to fly a drone in a park in Brooklyn, apparently they suck, as they referred to themselves as a noob. They compared it to driving an RC car. Honestly, if I ever get a drone I hope it won't be like the RC helicopter mission in GTA: Vice city ("Hmmmmm... Nice bike!")(Link isn't to the RC chopper mission, but to a cool scene)(This is the link to the RC mission: Link)

Also about drones, I feel like they aren't like, but actually are just high end RC choppers. They seem cool, but wwwaaayyy too overhyped just like Destiny and Shadow of Mordor.

\\\Spongebob\\\

Spongebob Squarepants does a 3D movie... In 3D!! Now I know this is some exciting stuff, but let's think a little. How many of us love sponge bob? All of us, of course. But how many of still actively watch the show? Not nearly as many of us. Freaking hipsters.

Beyond that point, the movie is about about sponge bob who goes to shell city to get Neptune's crown-- wait, no. I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about other than sponge on going on land.

Now I do plan on watching this movie. Not in theaters though, or maybe even this decade. It's gonna get added to the very long list of movies that I have to watch. Several titles on this list include, but are not limited to "Top Gun", "The Breakfast Club", the 2nd and third Karate Kids, and all of the mission impossibles.

\We Rule

EDIT: Also, You're welcome.

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No offense to anyone or to this class in particular, but I hate school.