Finished Film!
Animation = DONE!
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Category Archives: College Life
Greg Loewer’s MFA Recital!
One year!
Well, it’s been exactly 365 days since I got my acceptance letter from Calarts! I don’t think that a year ago I would have guessed that I would be frantically cleaning up and animating a film that I had no idea I would ever concoct, exactly a year in the future. Of course, by now I’ve acculturated myself to CalArts life (and really shouldn’t take it for granted, but… I do anyway)… I think I’m a lot busier than I suspected I ever would have been, but that’s okay! I’m having fun, I’m being productive and life’s great. (And I did have a new sort of revelation tonight, which is– I am a little bit TOO proficient at spilling soup. Actually, I concluded that the gravity in my dorm room is especially wonky and comes from every possible direction. At least if a chair-eating monster ever gets hungry and, for whatever reason, decides to enter my dorm… it’ll find that my chair’s quite delicious).
Countdown
38
Days left
until
films are
DUE!!!!!
AAaaaAAaaaAAAaaAaAaAAaAAAGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, okay, so it’s going really well– 2 scenes left to animate, 5 scenes total left to clean up and digitize (out of 19). With gallons of luck and perhaps a magical pixie-dust (or, rather, eraser-dust) faerie, I’ll be done by the end of the weekend (or else Monday night). Spring break’s coming right up and I’d best be finished with all the animation so I can go home and work on LAYOUTS!
whoo!
Flippin’ Out!
This is what a traditional animator does.
Over and over and over and over.
I just wanted give a feel of what it is to see your animated frames come to life when flipping/rolling them manually.
And I would not complain if someone found a way to give me a second left arm, so I could flip more than five pages at a time 😛
That’s all the preview you’re going to get for now on my film!! Hope you enjoy 😀
My heart melts…
My heart melts for you, dear reader, like CalArts’ cafeteria melts their tuna sandwiches.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
(I sure can tell how much the cafeteria loves me by the loving devotion that the grill guy put into making this the quintessence of the perfect tuna melt, the tuna slopped on with such amazing articulation; and let’s not forget the abundance of onions that he included as well).
How to SPOT an ANIMATOR!
1. Greasy, unwashed hair
2. Bloodshot eyes (that see DOUBLE!)
3. Pencil behind ear
4. Gaunt, sunken-in, mis-fed, pasty-white cheeks
5. Glasses
6. Hunched back
7. Same clothes for the past 2+ days
8. BLANKET
9. Carpal-Tunnel-inflicted hand (quivering with animation)
An Educational Film on the Hair Growth Stages in a Male
An Educational Film on the Hair Growth Stages in a Male
This was my 48-hour film for CalArts ’08! The word for this year’s film fest was “Hair”. I’d been wanting to make a brochure out of this concept, but decided it would actually make a pretty entertaining educational film, and was perfect for the subject matter. When they said 48 hours, they meant 48 hours with a week for editing. Initially, animating this took 3 days– sandwiched between classes and homework, plus an extra hour for voicing (which, unfortunately, took an hour; I was told the next day that people could hear me in the dorm halls and were wondering what was going on!)
I should also mention that my friends won’t let me get away with saying “gravity” anymore. I have to say “GWAVITY!” else I get scolded *cough, cough, CARLOS! cough*.
Enjoy and be enlightened 😀
