At this point, my fellow fourth years and I
are all madly trying to get our animation finished. What I find interesting (in
a horrible way) are the different and unique problems my friends and I are
running into based on the different methods of animation we have picked for our
thesis projects. For the record none of them are easy. Animation, whether it is stop motion, flash, traditional
paper and pencil, or CG are all difficult and have problems exclusive to that
type.
The exclusive problem in CG is what I like
to call underwater spaghetti.
Yep
Underwater spaghetti
I’ll start with underwater.
In CG animation you start with the main
poses (key poses) of the scene. Next you work on the in-betweens, the movement to
get from one key pose to the next.
To get the in-betweens, I flip a switch and
the computer program fills in all the animation between the key poses.
True
story
Awesome! What an age we live in where the
computer does all of the work for me.
NO!!!!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
NO!
(If you imagined me yelling all those noes in
a loud and frustrated manner with rage evident in my tone, then you are
imagining it accurately) (Them’s
fighting words, boy!)
It is true that the program will fill in
the poses for you, but it will look like VOMIT!
It is the worst part when animating in CG,
cuz it was looking good
then the computer got involved
now everything looks the worst floatyweirdunderwatermechanicalcoldgarbage you have ever seen!
now everything looks the worst floatyweirdunderwatermechanicalcoldgarbage you have ever seen!
The computer will make all the movement
look underwater like. Hence the “Underwater” part of the title to this blog
posts.
From this point forward, all my time and energy
is spent trying to fix the computer’s animation.
I will fix it in the Spaghetti zone, better
known as the Graph editor. (The “Spaghetti” part of the title)
It just looks like spaghetti to me, or like
a sewing box where all the thread has become tangled, or just a giant hot mess
of work.
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| Spaghetti |
I will go in noodle by noodle until I have
final fixed the animation the computer program so “conveniently” did for me.
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| Noodle by noodle |
As a film progress update, I am currently
about 2/3 done my animation and am working like a mad lady to get it done as
soon as possible.
Anyways here is some animation I have been
working on.
Still looks too underwater like. Goddamn you, computer, Goddamn.
