Spewage

hokay, so I went back and reread/watched some of the older class blog stuff from the beginning of the quarter and here are my takes on some of em.

Michael Burton - I had the pleasure of seeing Frequency when it was in the Elkhorn Campus Gallery. It was interesting to see an animation in a painting medium. I had never seen it done before nor did I think it could be done. The amount of paint and effort that goes into one of his paintings is just amazing.

Website - http://www.burtonworldart.com/

Sketchup - Sketchup is a 3-d model program. Basically, instead of making flat drawing like in Photoshop and what have you, you can make 3-d models of stuff! Cool, right? WRONG! It is innovative in that there aren't a lot of model programs that are free, but it is such a hassle to use. If you don't have a super awesome computer, you are very limited in the scale that you can work in. If you do have grand plans to making something big and complex, choose another program because otherwise your computer will get locked up every time you try to move something or even better crash with all yer unsaved work. But if you do have the patience of Buddha and don't mind getting frustrate after having to make the same thing 50 thousand times, Sketchup is for you!

Sketchup project I made -

Award winning short films - I liked the Maestro video. Wasn't really sure what was going on and it kept me guessing(I'm weird, I like to guess at where something is going) until the end. Then I laughed.



Peter and the Wolf - Waaaaaaaay cool and totally worth a look. It's a little lengthy but it was done very well. If you didn't guess it's an animation about the story of Peter and the Wolf along with that soundtrack.



DEPICT - Some of these were interesting but others I wonder 'was this the best there was?' i often disagreed with the winners the judges picked when a lot of the other videos were better.