Tuesday, We were asked to go ahead and update the video that we have been working on. Mine is a cut out Jesus (with a penis) that I have had to scan into photoshop and create layers and then move the multiple layers into After effects and begin work from there. My other video was really bad. I am starting to get the hang of things. I am certainly at a disadvantage. I do not know photoshop, I barely understand "layers" or any of the other millions of various functions that this program features and operates under. I created a paper cut out background scene with a rough collage of a temple that is in Jerusalem. I'm not sure if the temple was before or after Jesus was born, but I thought that would be proper setting. I also thought about putting Jesus in a strip club. I am not sure why I have gone to such measures. poor Jesus. Everyone makes fun of him. I'm glad he's very forgiving and not going to get mad at me. I love Jesus just like the next guy. I am a lucky person to have the things that I have in this world, and a luck guy to have the opportunity to make silly videos in art school. This one is reminiscent of South park in someways, and, well... without further adieu, let me present to you "Jumpkick Jesus" YAY!!!!

Jesus layers-VimeoHDEncode from Thomas Green on Vimeo.

Okay,

So, after all the difficulty I have had with making videos and putting together (especially) the replacement video,  some very small things were paramount in helping me pull it together and so, I am please to present my very first hand drawn animation entitled "Blink".  It's super crude, but I'm actually a little fond of it.  My initial idea was to mock the actions of "MARIO" from the classic and studip Warhol film "Mario Banana."    Here is the final product.  I hope you enjoy it so much that you run outside and do a flying split kick toe touch leap and rip your pants wide open!!!   Much love

Tom

green replacement-Vimeo Video Enco from Thomas Green on Vimeo.

So... this is as far as I've gotten on the replacement animation.  It has taken most of all day and it is pixellated, and not working right.  I guess that i will be occupying office hours with the professor to figure out what happened to the video and why it didn't process properly.  Perhaps I have missed some steps in my notes.  I'm not sure. VERY VERY VERY VERY FRUSTRATING!!!!

Visiting Artist Lecture: Io Palmer. Io Palmer is quite and interesting woman. She was born and raised on a small island outside of Greece. The island had virtually no motors, with the exception of the trash motorcycle, which scooted around two days a week to pick up people's garbage. I cannot imagine how peaceful and wonderful this style of life would be. Both of Io's parents were artists. Her mother worked in several various mediums including working in batik and her father worked in sculpture. Io discussed the amount of patience that it required of her father to create sculptures from large slabs of marble. Io took to the role models that her parents were and started making art as well.

And here is the encoded and uploaded video as it appears on Vimeo. I just wanted to see if it looks any different than the youtube video.

Jesus final-Vimeo Video Enco from Thomas Green on Vimeo.

replacement animation

So, I think Jesus Jumpkick still looks kind of weird from the vimeo hd encode directly loaded up to my blog, so I decided to upload it to my youtube account. I'm still waiting on the vimeo. I think it's much better on the youtube. I can't really tell because the computer that I'm watching the video on is extremely large and with a screen that large, perhaps it just looks strange/blurry/pixellated or something. I hope it is done correctly. The next step of our homework for this weekend has been to create a replacement animation. Since it might take me a decade to create an image in photoshop to use as replacement animation I have decided that i would try and create some eyeballs that close and do other stuff, like go bloodshot after a while. I have printed off some circles and am now going to color in different areas of the eyes and create lashes that close and open to use as movement. I cannot imagine doing animation many years ago. I guess artists had clear (gelatin?) cells that they could use as guides for reference points and also to direct them as to the exact location of the characters from frame to frame.

youtube upload of Jesus Jumpkick