H. Chris Brown FMX Classes Blog

  For this project, I put myself among Walter and Jesse from Breaking Bad.

 

 Very unfortunate news. After waiting for hours for my render to finish, after about 268 of my 430 frames, Maya crashed and I lost all of my work. I had big plans of editing and making a clean, full animation; and now I am really bummed I can't do that anymore. I guess you win some and you lose some. 

 I have been extremely locked into the grind creating this animation. I was so locked in that I forgot I was supposed to be blogging about it. I just finished the actual character animation, now I have to render it and send it through post. I ran into a hiccup where I couldn't get the forward bend to work and then some-how forward bent the entire animation so I spent like 3 hours fixing that mistake without ruining my project. Somehow I did it though. I will make another blog when I am completely finished. It is also very late at night because I did some work Saturday, and then worked at my job all day Sunday. I definitely wish I spent more time on Saturday on this so I wouldn't have as much to do right now. I also went a little too extreme on the animation, but go big or go home. Peace, -Chris

 

  Dear Chris in 20 years,   I hope you are still alive and well. From a standpoint 20 years in your past you had many ambitious goals and dreams, and I hope after 20 years you have begun accomplishing those. Right now I’m still in school working towards a degree and honing to develop the skills necessary to find a place in the entertainment industry. If everything goes right and I theoretically went down the exact path I hope to take, then the 20 year-older version of me reading this would hopefully be living in a nice house on a beach somewhere while actively working on some type of film/movie or piece of media. I would hope at some point during your time in college you managed to secure a nice internship related to animation or film and by graduation you were able to use that, and your degree to get a decently paying job. At least enough to cover the cost of living and keep yourself afloat. With time that job spirals as you work your way up in the ranks and take up more re...

 Hello, this is my first entry for our 3D animation class and so far the class has been pretty solid. We have only met in class once so far so we haven't accomplished much in a class setting, but outside of class we have created 2 animations. Even though the animations are very simple I have always been eager to learn how to render 3D animations so this is pretty exciting stuff and I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far. The process itself was challenging and took a while to learn, but I have a lot of experience dealing with 2D animation so the hassle of keyframes and stuff wasn't anything new. Honestly the biggest obstacle I've faced so far is just turning in my projects because the dropbox has been difficult. I know we were only expected to turn in the playblast, but I was very curious what the animation looked like rendered so I taught myself and I'm glad I did because of how the results turned out. It is also very cool how we are learning to rig our own mo...

  Hello, welcome to my second blog for the Logo/Biz Card assignment. To start the project off, I just wrote a little bit about myself: Using what I previously wrote, I narrowed down 4 descriptive words: I then used ai to produce some logos using these words. The ai messed up the spelling of the words, but the products did look pretty solid and were reasonable inspiration: I then used a notebook and a sharpie to draw some of my own designs. At first I thought I was going to go with the "creative" where the c is hidden in a brick wall, but then I came up with the "Equable" design and new it was the one I was going to pursue:  I then re-drew the equable logo and vector traced over top to get a better understanding of how to use vectors: I wasn't to fond of how the handwritten letters looked so I decided to use the font highrise for the words. I then took the Q and L and adjusted them to be an icicle and a lit candle. Equable is all about being constant, contained, ...

 After having completed our first class period, my feelings towards the class are pretty neutral. We were over zoom which does damper the experience a little but and my inability to sit still can make long class periods tough, but the concepts we will dive into seem pretty interesting. I have a fair amount of experience in the creation of digital media. I know how to edit videos pretty well using final cut, after effects, and premiere. I also can animate as well and am decent at graphic design using adobe animate, photoshop, and lightroom. Some stuff about me is that I am from the west coast over in Portland Oregon. I am an animation major and a sophomore here. I enjoy both playing and watching sports, mainly lacrosse, soccer, and especially basketball. I also enjoy being creative, outside of film/animation I enjoy music. I've played the drums for 8 years and I also produce music in my free time through Logic. I'm a big movie guy too which connects with the class so I look forw...