Animation Reflection

I learned many important things over the course of the school year in animation, one main thing being I learned about the Adobe Suite more and Maya. I learned this by being involved and originally enrolling in animation gave me the opportunity to learn more.

This is important for anything I do in the future. I plan to go into video and I can incorporate what i learned this year into what I make in the future. I can also use this if I plan on being involved in animation in the future. I have many opportunities because of this class and I am very grateful.

I wouldn't say I have many strengths in this class, most things were pretty hard for me to do. I had to ask my neighbors for help many times and I struggled a good amount also. I have some strengths, however. One being I was good with green screen and keying out the green screen. I was also good at a few things in Maya like motion paths and curving things. I have however improved greatly on just my knowledge and technical ability over the course of the year. I am much better now than I was in September or October.

If there was anything I would change it would definitely be my work ethic at the beginning of the year. I feel like I definitely fell behind and I didn't understand much of anything that was going on. I had to ask for help many times and struggled a lot. I feel like I can definitely handle this class now just not at the beginning of the year.

In conclusion, I would like to thank Mr. Netterville for a great year in Animation. He definitely helped me a lot and his class was so much fun to be in. His classroom had a very comfortable, lighthearted atmosphere and everyone in the class also felt this. Netterville also knew what he was doing with the programs and how to help us which was very good. Thank you Mr. Netterville!

Professional Article Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-review.html?_r=0

This article was all about the new Star Wars movie. The main points of it were: JJ Abrams learned from the best, JJ did a really good job at casting minorities and that JJ did really good at staying true to the original movies. The author was mainly arguing and claiming that JJ did really good by learning from Lucas and Spielburg, and staying true to their movies. The strengths of this article is that it gives really good evidence, and a weakness is that it only stays on one main topic. This is a very good article about the new Star Wars movie

Professional Project Review

The professional project I reviewed this time was an animation called "The Colors of Evil." It was an animation mainly about a girl that was bullying another girl, and justice was served in the end with the help of a demonic presence.

The animation was very well done and included some really good detail. For example, the hair is textured to match the lights in the setting. Everything else including the demon especially has very good detail.

One element I would apply to my work is the use of strong, bright colors. This animation has very vivid colors and it looks very nice. I already know how to do this but I haven't applied this to any projects yet.

The creator did many things well, like making the characters look very good. They were colorful and full of detail. One thing he didn't do very well however is add enough detail to the background. I think this was a very good animation, I would be very proud of it if it was my own work.