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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0AA85MVGY For the dialogue was the hardest part of the projects. I had a hard time and not enough time to do what I really wanted to do, it took a lot of frames and a lot of time, but I think the overall animation was ok. I did everything in clip studio paint but edited it in after effects with what I knew about after effects.

Text Animation h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_9ZUXpORg For the typography, surprisingly it was easier to handle than the bouncing ball, however figuring out where I should put the words and how I should format the video was hard. It was different because some of the words I had to split up the letters in order to animate them separately but, because I did a fast song it was harder to put all of the words in the scene as a fast as the words in a way that the audience could read it.

This project was fun to do but was also tedious. I had to fix the ball a lot of the time, but being previously self taught in after effects, it was easy to learn fast from after effects.

For the weight, I decided to use characters I had previous made up. It was interesting to see my character brought to life, but it was hard to keep up the consistency of the hair and the clothes. but nonetheless it was fun and interesting to do especially in a program like harmony in which I had never used before.

For the walk cycle I decided to do a run just to see if I could do one. it was harder than I thought it was going to be especially since it was a run and I've never really studied people running before so it was definitely a challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROkON68RhdE For the video, I put together a collage of myself dancing to these moves, and then used harmony to draw over it. originally I was going to color the frames, but there were too many. I found it easier to work with harmony rather than photoshop because of how the frames show up and the easy way to copy and paste

For our stop motion project we decided to do a pixel animation about the revenge of a bunny. It was hard trying to figure out what To do with the character and how to get on obstacles such as getting on the bed and how to let the items like my shoe fall. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was gong to be, but it went smoothly. I tried uploading it to After Effects and editing the image sequence, which took about 200 picture(frames), but the raw canon files would not render correctly. I had to convert each picture to a JPG and redo the video. We also had to grab some music from Youtube, so finding it was not too hard.

For this project, we thought of the idea of fruit ninja and pac man together. It was interesting to see how dragon frame worked, having not used it ever before. I was nervous about how it would turn out.. We ended up with over 100 frames of animation. Each of us worked together to move each fruit and pac man.

Hi, My name is Taylor Guyton, 2d animation is my favorite. I grew up in Japan when I was younger for a total of five years. I got my inspiration from Japanese animation. Being in Japan created a whole new world for someone like me who have lived in the States most of my lives. My art began in South Carolina, where I was interested in a show called Sponge-bob, and from there my life got interesting. When we moved to Japan, at 9 years of age, I created my first animation. When I moved away from Japan, I was devastated. The culture was rich, the people were kind, it was a dream world. So after a year or two being in Japan, I decided that it was time that I make a decision. I wanted to become an animation. When I made this decision, many people tried to turn me away from the entire idea, but I just couldn't. I've been drawing for so long, I almost forget that there are other options. I want to learn a lot from this class, mainly new programs to work with. Ive worked with pain...

For my project I decided to focus on the meaning of worth and worthlessness. Sometimes people give more credit to feeling worthless than feeling that they are worth it. To illustrate this concept, I made Worth as a girl trapped under a black and white environment in the wet and cold, and gave worthlessness a beautiful look. I made worthlessness wear a dress of red to symbolize demons. When people continuously say they are worthless, they are giving worthlessness a spotlight, and leaving their worth in the dark. For the effects of the video, I did a lot of reverse, speeding up, color change, tv simulator effects, and black and white effects. I used final cut pro and a T3i rebel camera. It was a lot of fun filming it in the water, but it was a mess as well. Originally I was supposed to film outside, but I decided that if I film the two elements where it looks like they are trapped, it would be better. I want people to realize how much they are worth. I decided to do this concept...

Jen was my partner! When we were thinking of my piece, I looked at things I usually enjoy. I enjoyed watching people recording and doing weird stuff in stores and always wondered if I could ever do that. Since I have an overwhelming sense of social anxiety, I try not to draw attention to myself, yet wish that I could do the things youtubers do best. My piece is based on just contently being yourself. I want to illustrate that you can be weird and do what you please in public, no matter what the public eye says. I see performance art as an interesting concept. from flash mobs to protest, performance art can really have an everlasting memory for those who see it. Some performance arts can be seen as extreme, and can be essentially violent to oneself, bodily harm to make a statement can be seen as too intense for public eyes, but it does make a statement. whether it reaches the peoples minds can be a challenge. When the performance is recorded I think a lot more people can see it...

 For techno, I think the band Darude should go into this category. They came out with the popular techno song Sandstorm. Which is very techno, and similar to the techno world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU  For Goth, I would like to put Dot Dot Curve in the list. Dot Dot Curve is very pop-goth cultured. They have an emo attraction to them as well as a metal. I could also put this group in punk, but it seems more on the emo side. Their songs are catchy, and have many instrumentals in them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeSzEmoCwlg  For dubstep, I'd like to choose a DJ that creates songs through collaboration with other artist. He goes by Marshmellow, and likes to hide who he is, giving off a mysterious vibe. He hides his face through a Marshellow mask. His beats rang from dubstep to hip hop to EDM, which initially is a form of dubstep. https://youtu.be/oRArmtMA9AI For the virtual I had to do a bit of research. Virtual singers like Hatsune Miku ...

My art is based on the graffiti art movement. I choose wings because I love that graffiti art can be interactive instead of just on the wall. I love graffiti art because I feel like it can both artistic and interactive and a bit rebellious. I felt like the wings were something that some people dreamed of having. My original idea was to scan main  parts of my body, like my face and my arms and legs, for the middle part and recreate myself in the wings. But instead of putting myself in the middle to recreate myself, I used the rest of the pieces of the cut paper from my scans to create a mystery body. I decided to only glue the bottom of the hand scans to the board so that it would look kind of like the hands could be ruffled or moved. I wanted it to look like wings, so I turned the hands on the left side slightly different than I did the right side. Here is the picture I based it off of: Work;

my grid art is based upon my picture that I drew a few weeks ago. Originally my design was supposed to be complex, but upon the arriving deadline, I realized it may not be possible. Grid art can be beautiful and if done by hand can be complex and take a while. When you look afar at grid art, it may seem easy and simple, however, grid art is not always easy and can be quite tedious when it comes to working on it. My grid art was complex, I had completed it within four-five hours, but it was hard. My original material was supposed to be clear thumb nails, however, when I ordered them, they arrived at a different location, so I had to improvise. For the thumb nails, I was supposed to paint all 900 of them. So for my improvisation, I painted my picture. Since I was going to do circles anyway, I did drawn circles. One of the most difficult things about grid art is that it will not come out looking the exact same as your picture if you section it in just colors without details. It will l...

For this project I used characters that I had created. The characters background makes sense for the animation I created. The girl and boy are mortal enemies and assassins, but also childhood friends, they follow a one sided love for the man. For the animation they start off in a fight but the man starts to show off his skills, and even kisses her. She gets angry and throws her last weapon, but he ends up catching it and drawing 'I love you' on the tree. Originally it was supposed to be digital and even longer than 200 frames, but hearing about this project, I took the liberty to start the animation and end it differently. I find it interesting that some people do this on a daily basis. stop motion is already tedious enough, and this project was fun but also frustrating. I wanted it to be a lot more detailed than It was but I didn't have enough time. this project also allowed me to play around. The hardest part of this project was probably the scene where they...

Taylor Guyton Art 211 Blanka Roundtree 28 February 2018 Electronics             Art and technology has come a long way. One technical object that has come a long way is the drawing tablet. Drawing tablets are used by artist all around the world. It helps artist draw digitally on the computer which is entirely different from drawing on paper. Digital arts have prospered throughout the years as they continuously make more tablets more accessible and easier to use. Most of the artist who do use the tablets are illustrators and digital animators. For a long time, animation was hand drawn. Then Wacom decided to come out with the Wacom bamboo tablet, however, before there was Wacom, there was apple. In 1979, apple created a tablet for graphics (Smith).   Apple actual did not create the tablet itself, they worked with someone who did make it. The company was called Summagraphics (Smith). Apparently, it was not we...

The Color Purple, staring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson was one of the most soulful, inspiring, and beautiful broadways I've ever seen. Originally there based on Jennifer Hudson's appearance, I was quickly drawn in to the beautiful voices of everyone else. It was no longer about who famous was playing the roles, it was about who was playing the roles, and they were playing it well. Cynthia Erivo's performance was phenomenal. Her voice carried out her soul, and mine as well. I saw the play January of Senior year of high school for a theatre trip to New York. This Broadway is something I would recommend to anybody. It tells the hardships of family and love, hurt and regret. It highlights the ideals and expectations of society, to the strength of feminism and desire. Growing up, everyone in my family knew of The Color Purple. I was excited to see that it has become a play, and the play did not let me down. Not one bit. It was the type of play you would laugh, cry and sympa...

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The animation is a spectacle to look at. It changes the scenery in artful movements, almost as if the originally set, which takes place on a grassy hill, is just a dream. Madama Butterfly is well constructed, built out of clay and mechanics. Her stringy hair movement adorably sways in the imaginary wind, and her clothes, which are made out of rags. There must be a reason why the animator wanted her to look like this, versus, the opera where she is an actual geisha in a kimono, whereas, the military man is just a ken doll. I believe he wanted to symbolize a curious innocence within Madama Butterfly. He partakes this story in a very interesting way. He starts it off with the two meeting and all of a sudden connecting without any thought. In the original Madama Butterfly, he originally wanted to take a Japanese wife, he ends up taking Cho-Cho san as his wife, who is, in a sense, Madama butterfly. In the animation, he mates with her and then leaves, as if he was either to never come back...

My project is a combination of lunch and conversation. The avocado represents the dial, the sandwich, the base of the phone, the elbow noodles, the cord, and the apple, banana, and orange is made up of the phone. My reasoning for creating such a mass of food is simply because of the idea of healthiness vs unhealthiness. We are told that being on our electronics causes loss of brain cells and inability to learn in a specific way. People of the younger generation tend to not care and hold on to electronics almost as an obsession, but what if electronics were healthy food? If we treated our body how we treat our electronics, perhaps we would have a better perspective on healthiness. My idea came to me from looking at my own life. my inspirations actually came from my dinner. While I was prodding around, seeing what I should eat, I found myself dragging my phone along with me, as if it was another part of my arm. Noticing this caused me to create such a piece. Other inspirations came ...

Raul Cuerco is a man of many talents, but he had been treated as an unintellectual individual because of his race. Not one person wanted to look at him as a smart person, but through his struggles he found the wisdom to live his life with a better perspective. In the interview he had pointed out many ways to live life in a way that benefits you as a person. The concepts that he introduced were how he lived his own life and how he eventually benefitted from living the way that he did. Raul says that everything is possible if you try hard enough. In everyday life, many people are discouraged to do certain things because of laziness or the thought of failure. Raul has a different approach. Raul says, "Focus without the fear of failing." and "do everything with intensity." He goes on to say that intensity is what makes a process complete. Everything in everyday life is a process, and applying the concept of not fearing the inevitable, work with intensity, and try hard...

Hello, My name is Taylor Guyton, and for this set of blog post I will be posting about my new class Art 211, Art and technology. The class is about how humans interaction with technology has changed the art world and how people provide and show their art to the world. I believe that this class will help me understand the relationship between humans and technology and how the advancement of technology has shaped the art world. From the time I was young I have always played with technology. As I grew up I began to become fascinated with computers and how they work. I went from drawing in sketchbooks to drawing on the computer and have been fascinated with the thought of computer art from the beginning. Technology has affected me personally and continuously throughout the years of my life. While approaching college applications, I have chosen a major that correlates to what I have been doing for the past few years, Digital Arts. I am a very open-minded person, I love art, animation, an...