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I’m sure volumes have been written on the waning of the use of hand drawn animation in many big and small budget titles, which is exactly why I’m not going to talk about that. Suffice it to say that 2D animation took a back seat for many years letting the 3D artists take control of the animation front. I haven’t done any 3D animation since my senior year of high school, and up until this past Fall semester I had not ever done any 2D animation. I was chomping at the bit to try my hand at the pencil and paper variety of animation.

Now that the semester is over and done with (thankfully!), I have everything compiled and ready to show. So here is a semesters worth of work in two and a half minutes:

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The first video contains projects that were meant to demonstrate to us the various principals that are inherent to animation. Not just 2D animation mind you, but 3D as well. Whatever medium you use to create animation, your viewer’s eyes will still be able to pick up on things that make your animation look less life-like. Your job as an animator is to fool your audience into thinking what they are watching is real, or at least entirely believable.

So all the assignments we did up to the final were very literal, concrete ideas. I decided I had to do something that was on the other end of the spectrum for my final. We had to create an animation that was at least 15 seconds long, and that was our only criteria. I had a rough idea what I wanted to do, but I also let the animation go where it might along the way. I would have liked to make it twice as long as it is, but time constraints and all that. Maybe I’ll do an animation for my capstone project.

Great class, great professor. I really want to do more of this stuff.

I briefly mentioned that some of my calligraphy pieces will be in an exhibition in my last blog post. While I knew that, at least in some capacity, some of my work would be exhibited at the beginning of class, I did not know any specifics. But now I do, and am happy to share.

The Spring Arts Festival is sort of a round up of student work from the past year. There will be quite an array of presentations to go and see, but obviously my work is not in the live performance category. My work, and the classes’, will be exhibited in the Visual Arts Studio, colloquially (and lovingly) known to the students as The Art Barn.

The dates for the event are May 1 – 9. If you’re on campus, and have some time to spare, why not take a stoll through the Art Barn and see what there is to see.

Here is the official website for the event, with all the information and itinerary of performances:

http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0809/springfest.htm

We would like it to be known the exhibits that [are] shown
[Are] exclusively our own, all our own, all our own

Come and see the show, come and see the show
Come and see the show
See the show