A few things have happened since my previous post earlier this month, several being Into the Woods encore performances, various illnesses (poison oak and the flu), though thankfully not simultaneously, and the much anticipated visit of Kristin and Daniel.

The end.

I put off procrastination today and did what needs to be accomplished: Starting on walk cycles in my animation book! It's rather unfortunate that school starts fairly soon.. but thankfully, there are still a few weeks of vacation left. I consider this to be a sign that perhaps, sometime in the near future *laughs*, I could eventually start posting clippings of what I do throughout the week.

Right. It's off to work then!

Cheers,

Bradley

Kind of Sloppy

Apparently I am a "blundering idiot". After looking in my drafts, the post was in there.
By the way, this was written yesterday, and not Sunday.

I've known for quite some time now how my handwriting is rather messy, but have never
actually risen up to do anything about it. As of today, that has finally changed.
It all started today with a letter I received from my cousin, which prompted the urge
to write back to him, but only reminded me of my handwriting. "That settles it then!", I thought as I inputed the phrase, "improving handwriting" into Google and stumbled upon this excellent little page.

Only time will tell if my work will improve my writing or not (which it most likely will).

Put the Ipod down sir...

This blog has not been updated in awhile, but I just came
back to it today, thinking I will probably start writing here.

On the 21st of December 2007, I received The Animator's Workbook by Richard Williams
and The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
(I bought them with birthday money).
I have decided to go through them, one at a time, taking them slowly, savoring
each few pages. I will probably blog on that here.

On the section about timing and spacing, Mr. Williams suggested sliding a coin
across a video camera in 24 seconds, first in an even pattern, and then
in an ease-in-ease-out. I ended up holding my camera in a steady spot and taking 24
pictures (25 on the second ease-in-ease-out video).
Then, I loaded the images into Blender and rendered
to AVI (using Xvid). You can download them below.
http://www.mediafire.com/?32iyvzj92jj
http://www.mediafire.com/?fkxyjaxmozt


Today, I was reading lesson 1, where Richard Williams describes how he asked
Milt Kahl if he ever listened to music while animating, and Milt blows up, yelling
"Of all the stupid ideas!!" Compare that to another explosion, where he was asked
how he planned a counter-action in some Disney movie scene and exclaimed
how that was not the right way to think of the scene. Even when he was yelling,
Milt still gave wisdom (I find this rather funny).

So, Ditch the headphones, sit up straight (about a 135-degree angle),
and focus on one thing at a time.

Signing off,

~Brad