Bouncing Ball

This was my first project for Fundamentals of Animation. It's a bouncing ball!

Drawn frame-by-frame in Photoshop with onion skins enabled.

Shape to Shape

Another small project for my Fundamentals of Animation class. We were given two shapes and asked to make any kind of in betweens to transition from one shape to the next.

Drawn frame-by-frame in Photoshop with onion skins enabled.

The Apple Tree

Drawn frame-by-frame with tablet in Photoshop. Onion skins enabled.

Stop-Motion Wire Man

This is my 1st stop-motion animation which I made for my Fundamentals of Animation class which I am currently enrolled in at RPI.

Images were taken using a Kodak z650 still camera and tripod.

I used Photoshop to clean up particular frames in which either my hand or other objects accidentally entered the work area.

The movie itself was put together using Adobe Premiere Elements.

Music is OAM's Blues by Aaron Goldberg.

Module 3 Part 3

Storyboard based on the following script:

1.(ELS) What appears to be an oversized soup can with a dome lid hurtles through space, twisting and turning every which way down to Earth. 2.(LS)It skims across treetops, 3.(ELS)around bridges and buildings, 4.(FS)whipping into the air anything not anchored down. 5.(LS)The ship (soupcan) guides its way to an open field for an emergency landing. 6.(ELS)As the ship gets closer, a house and barn come into view. 7.(LS)The ship attempts to land in the field, showering ears of corn onto the landscape. The ship slows its destructive path, but not soon enough. 8.(MS)BOOM! The ship crashes through the upstairs window of the house and whizzes out the back door, 9.(LS)crashing through the barn, stopping in a haystack. 10.(LS)The animals in the barn turn to look at the smoldering haystack. 11.(FS)As the animals move cautiously toward the object,12.(MS) the haystack RUSTLES, and out pops EDDIE the warthog, wearing a bomber jacket, goggles, and helmet.

Module 3 Part 2

Hand-drawn, scanned. Photoshop --> Texturizer --> Chalk and Charcoal.

10 THE INCLINED PASSAGE 10

1.[LS]Indy shoots out of a cut-off hallway and

2.[MS]turns toward the exit. The rumbling is very loud and now we see why:

3.[FS]right behind Indy a huge boulder comes roaring around a corner of the passage, perfectly form-fitted to the passage way.

4.[CU]It obliterates everything before it,

5.[ECU]sending the stalactites shooting ahead like missles.

6.[FS]Indy dashes for the light of the exit. His hat flies off his head.

7.[ECU]Almost immediately it is crushed by the boulder.

8.[ELS]Indy dives out the end of the passage as

9.[LS]the boulder slams to a perfect fit at the entrance, sealing the Temple.

Module 3 Part 1

For this project I decided I wanted to test out Sketchbook Pro. I got this software for free with an Autodesk book I purchased a little while ago. It's kind of like MS Paint but a little fancier and you can have layers and whatnot. I like how I can shade and the lines are pretty smooth.

The movie is 300. I thought this was a good choice for a storyboard since it has a lot of rich detail, is very expressive, and the movie is beautifully filmed overall.