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on Sunday, September 18th, MAMUT animations said
Hey I saw your work keep it up your doing a great job.
Sincerely Mario A Mutis 
on Friday, March 4th, Melanie said
My new idea
Hiiiiiiiii
i have changed my idea (not that i had an exact one to begin with). After meeting with al and viewing his animations he gave me the idea of morphing. so i decided that i am still going to set it in nicks room but i want penny to be fighting with nick and then all of a sudden she turns into a spider and legs start coming out of her dress and she bites nicks head off and he is bleeding and then she runs off. i have re-done my models as two of them were destroyed : (
i found it really difficult to make the models as they kept breaking and i was getting really inpatiatient with the whole process then Danielle told me about some nice soft clay so i went and brought it. (its really expensive for what it is tho but hey it was worth it) So i re did the model of penny so it will be easier to move her and i put wire throughout her body.
i also finished the set. its pretty simple but i think it looks good. one wall is covered in black and white checkered paper and the other in a dark purple (because i couldnt find another sheet of black and white) and there is a couch in the setting (thank you to my sister for letting me use her barbie toys). im going to make posters of bands in the background so it looks a bit more like nicks room. so far thats all ive done. i plan to start animating on friday hopefully.
BYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
on Friday, March 4th, Robert said
Setting up for my animation
I met with El again today to discuss the finl points to begin animating my project. He showed us a few things about analysing sound & movment of characters which I found helpfull since I need to match up the actions of my characters with the voice over. He also explained how helpful it can be to have clay models with wire skeletons to improve the movements & to stop them from falling apart when we are filming. Because I wanted to use blue screen instead of actual sets I decided to use the media rooms fabric blue screen but as El pointed out, the fabric has too many lumps & the light makes shadows appear which I really don't want because it can mess up the background! He showed me how to experiment with different coloures to see which is the best colour to use for a background. We finally decided on pure green since the only green on my models id the fichnet on Penny's legs which I can easily change. So now all I have to do before I can animate is fix my 'green screen', fix my Penny model & experiment with the colour scemes so the green screen will work.
on Thursday, February 24th, Elle said
Al (the animator) came to talk to us today. He was so kool! He gave us a lot of helpful hints and tricks to use and bcoz I want to get into the animation field as a career I was hanging on to his every word. I read an article a while back which depicted animators as being "obsessive control freaks" Its soo true u gotta have a lot of patience for it and the ability to mentally break down an action into frame by frame.
I came to school today all excited to show my film teacher my model and see what she thought about her and she and Al both said that she's too small!!
So after scrutinizing every little detail down to the earrings in her head, I need to make a new, slightly bigger version of "Penny". Which I wasn't too rapt about! (as u can imagine) But hey, they're the experts...
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