Kiwi's Sacrifice

This was the story that was told at a meeting that celebrated a sister missionary's service mission. The missionary was like the Kiwi, she sacrificed her daily life in order to help other people.

Potential Project for Easter Animation

This is an adaptation of a story that is in the Latter-day Saint Voices section of the July 2011 Ensign called When I Meet My Brother Again

WARM AFTERNOON
A grade school aged girl skips home from school wearing her uniform, with some friends.

INTERIOR MEXICAN HOUSE
As she enters her home her mother carefully feeds her younger brother who cannot move or speak. With enthusiastic gestures the girl tells her brother the fun things that she did in school that day. The girl then helps her mother and her mother leaves to do other house work.

NIGHTTIME EXTERIOR
The family celebrates Christmas by breaking Pinatas, and the girl picks up some peanuts, mandarines, and animal crackers and shares some with her brother

SUNNY DAY
We see the family go swimming, and the girl dips her feet in the clear water along side the feet of her younger brother

SUNSET INTERIOR MEXICAN HOUSE
The children are older and everyone is singing a Church song and reading the Bible for Family Night

MORNING OUTSIDE SCHOOLYARD
The girl has a formal dress on and has graduated from middle school and her family is there to celebrate

NIGHTTIME INTERIOR HOUSE
The girl kisses her brother goodnight. He coughs. She stands by the doorway and tenderly looks back at her brother. Beside her bed she prays

COLD WINTER AFTERNOON CEMETERY
The girl and mom and dad stand solemnly near a tombstone that is surrounded by typical golden, purple and burgundy colored flowers

INTERIOR MEXICAN HOUSE NIGHT TIME
The girl looks into her brother's neatly tended, where a picture of him and her is seen on the night stand. Next to the picture is a whithered flower. CLOSE UP of the girl's face. She lays down in her own bed and slowly closes her eyes and falls asleep.

BRIGHT CLOUDY DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS
The girl is walking in a blurry mysterious mountain. In the distance she sees something and as she walks closer sees that it is a wagon filled with bright beautiful flowers. Then a young man walks beside the wagon, dressed in white, smiling. The girl pauses a moment, then recognizes that it is her BROTHER. Her speaks to her and She embraces him. They laugh. Flower petals fly past the camera and transition to...

 INTERIOR MEXICAN HOUSE MORNING
Close up of the girl's face. Her eyes open, and she gets up out of bed. In her brother's bed room we see the picture of her and her brother. Next to it we see an image of the Resurrection of Jesus, and beside that the withered flower that was there is gone and in its place is a fresh beautiful flower. Then we see the words:

“The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form..."

-Alma 11:43

Hale's talk about using agency

Who paints a floor??????

Animation Ideation – November 15, 2013

Animation Ideation – November 15, 2013

Agenda:

Anouncments:

-       Begin Warm up sketching / 9:30 daily reviews.

-       Introduce Whitestone

-       Kevin present Hales animatic

-       Ellis – Demo depth-mapping on photos for parallax animation.

-       Brainstorm Easter Ideas

Follow ups:

Temple Square lights

-       Talk to Joe Fowler about what Mormon Messages want in a story

Easter Animation Idea

-       Needs to have a purpose.

-       Brainstorm ideas as a group next week.

The WiseGuy

-       Review and revise animatic – Travis / Jonathan

-       Possible 3D treatment to character.

Minutes:

Whitestone App:

-       is it only on the iPhone?

-       Is there a website?

-       For Church projects only, security reasons

-       Can we get a loner iPad?

Kevin’s Animatic – Elder Hales – Agency

-       http://speeches.byu.edu/index.php?act=viewitem&id=1918

-       http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/agency-essential-to-the-plan-of-life

-       What are the possible deliveries?  Mormon Message? Conference highlight?

-       Get Mormon Message input from Joe.

Ellis Depth mapping demo

-       cool way to add 3D depth to a flat image

-       can also be used to create focus / tilt shift effect

-       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYfxrsJUqI&feature=youtu.be

-       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PiPVeJ-828&feature=youtu.be

Assignments:

Post Lights Script to Dropbox – Travis

Concept samples for Wise Guy – Travis

Post Drawing Challenge - Travis

Animation Ideation – November 8, 2013

Animation Ideation – November 8, 2013

Agenda:

Anouncments:

-       New Creative Challenge – Fan boy trailers.

Follow ups:

Temple Square lights

-       Talk to Joe about what Mormon messages want in a story.

Easter Animation Idea

-       Need to have a purpose.

-       Brainstorm ideas as a group next week.

The WiseGuy

-       Review and revise animatic – Travis / Jonathan

Minutes:

Tim Hinton – Review of Element 3D

-       allows importing of 3D elements into AE

-       particle effects

-       imports OBJ sequences

Assignments:

Post Lights Script to Dropbox – Travis

Concept samples for Wise Guy – Travis

New Drawing Challenge - Travis

An Animation that Measures Up

This is an animation I did in After Effects.  I had fun with it.

A few links

I wanted to post some links to some of the topics we have been covering in our Friday meetings.

scripts - http://aescripts.com

3D camera tracking - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RtwYRFyZW8

roto-brush - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgfDUnA1Ys

Animation History

Thought this was worthy of posting, thanks Heather for sending it along.

http://io9.com/these-radial-animations-are-the-true-ancestors-of-moder-1455037308

November 1, 2013 - Animation Notes

Animation Ideation – November 1, 2013

Agenda:

Anouncments:

-       New Creative Challenge next week.

Follow ups:

Temple Square lights

-       Idea pushed to next year, possible Mormon Message.

-       Still open for research and development in the meantime. 

Easter Animation Idea

-       Start coming up with ideas.

The WiseGuy

-       Review and revise animatic – Travis / Jonathan

Minutes:

Ben Thompson – AE scripts

AE template – create an AE file as a template, install the script , and whenever you open AE, it create a file structure based on your template.

Spell check script – Run the script, and it spell checks your comp

Stopwatch scritp – Run the script to time out audio in time / frames segments.

Script importer – Create a script in Adobe Story or Final Draft, and it will analyze the script and create comps based on scenes and characters within those scenes.

Puppet Tools – Creates IK chains based on pins.

Project sync – syncs AE project files that are compiled into one master AE file.

BG renderer – Allows you to render in AE in the background so you can continue to work.

Stephen Anderson –Rotobrush – A quick and easy way to create complicated masks.

Assignments:

Post Lights Script to Dropbox – Travis

Concept samples for Wise Guy - Travis

October 25, 2013 - Animation Notes

Animation Ideation – October 25, 2013

Agenda:

Anouncments:

-       New Fridge

-       Nintendo Wii

-       Locked Walt Room

-       Billing of creative meetings.

-       Limiting the reach of our ideation.

Follow ups:

Temple Square lights

-       Idea pushed to next year, possible Mormon Message.

-       Still open for research and development in the meantime. 

Easter Animation Idea

-       Start coming up with ideas.

The WiseGuy

-       Review and revise animatic – Travis / Jonathan

Minutes:

Covered announcements, no additional questions.

Introduced new illustration challenge, high art, low art.

Ellis presentation – 3D camera tracking.

Time presentation – quick and simple draw-on effect.

Assignments: