Stop Motion Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMtTF3spAPM

Reflective statement Stop motion

I decided my stop motion transformation when a friend of mine suggested me to transform a jellyfish into an ice-cream. At first, I thought it was a boring idea, but then I found it very easy and something that I could relate to, and so I sticked to that idea. As I turned the storyboard to the drawing animation, it changed a lot because the transformation changed pretty fast and so I didn't have enough pictures. Because of this, I had to add more ideas into the project and make it longer. Their were some challenges that I faced. One of them was trying to get more pictures possible, so the video could last longer. Also, another challenge was to work with plasticine since when you put it on paper it looked very dirty and let marks. In addition, trying to take a picture in every slight change of the drawing animation. Although I had a hard time making this animation happen, I liked the way it turned out because it is amazing how it look the pictures all together. On the other hand, if I would have the chance to redo my animation I would have change the beginning. I would have taken the pictures in every slight moment so the video could've last longer. After watching websites of careers in animation, I wouldn't consider that career for me since I am not very creative and artistic. Stop motion animation was a long and tough experience but at the same time, I had fun doing it.

Medium Selection

The medium I've selected are plasticine and normal paper. I chose plasticine because I think is an easy material to work with for what I am going to do. Also, I decided to choose normal paper because it's a very clean material and my transformation will look more realistic. I am going to be using the plasticine for the jellyfish and ice cream, while I would be using normal paper for the background since it will be looking cleaner and simpler. The biggest challenge with this medium would be making the form of every figure which in this case would be the jellyfish and the ice cream.

William Kentridge

To begin with, William Kentridge makes me feel kind of sad and depressive, since his high quality stop motion video is created by sad colors like: black and white and it's about how men suffer and go through a lot of pain. On the other hand, I would describe his work to a blind person as being a very detailed video since you can easily see what the video is about. I would also mention the black and white colors. More over, I would describe the hard work that men had to go through.

In my opinion, I think that the process for creating his work wasn't a very easy thing to do. He may be first had drawn something and then erased it,and then take the picture, so the viewers could easily see the changes that are going on. Besides, you can easily understand the story he is trying to tell thanks to the details he drew. Finally, you can tell that his project was a very high quality stop motion video.

Stop Motion Videos

Stop motion is a form of animation in which it tries to make an object appear to move. This type of animation technique brings the viewers a good feeling and a great taste of art. Artists that create these animations may be doing them in this manner in order to make them seem more artistic, sort of like a movies, and fantastic. Also, they may be creating them because is another original way of making a movie or video. In order to create this amazing project, there has to be several steps that people should follow. The first step is to start thinking on what are you going to be doing the project about. Then, make some sketches about it. After, start to take the pictures and then edit the video in a computer. Lastly, my favorite stop motion video was this one.

Water Pollution

Water pollution is the most serious environmental problem that Earth is facing today. Water covers about 70% of the Earth and is a very important resource that humans and the environment need it in order to support life. Although water is a very essential resource to life, human beings had been wasting it due to large amounts of materials that are thrown in the water.

Moreover, water pollution affects drinking water, lakes, rivers and oceans all over the world; therefore, it can harm human health and natural environment such as plants and animals. The main effects of water pollution on animals are that if they're living in unhealthy environment, they can die from harsh chemicals or trash that is emptied into large bodies of water like: dead fish, birds, dolphins, and many other animals often wind up on beaches, killed by pollutants in their habitat.This could lead to vanishing species, since more animals are dying every time someone throws a toxic substance to any kind of body of water.

Furthermore, some effects of water pollution are that it can reduce the quality of drinking water for humans and marine animals. Also, it can reduce the amount of sunlight penetrating the water, killing some organisms.Besides, the effects on humans can be dangerous too. People can get several diseases by eating seafood that has been poisoned.

As a final point, humans should definitely take care of all the water that is suited on Earth in order to prevent water pollution. People can avoid this by being careful what they throw in any body of water(lakes, rivers or oceans), not overuse pesticides or fertilizers because this can runoff into water. Finally, this serious problem may grow even more if people aren't careful of their water use.

Rotoball

After watching all the great Rotoball videos, I came up with a good idea for my Rotoball project. To being with, the background would be a simple park. Then, the ball is going to slowly come up from the leftside. By then, im going to be standing in the park holding a bottle of bubbles and when the ball comes up, It's going to go onto the bottle of bubbles. After that, I would going to be blowing a bubble ,which in this case is going to be the ball, like two times. Then, I'm going to grab the bubble, start stretching it, and finally I would turn the ball into a frizbee. After I turn the ball into a frizbee, the background would rapidly turn into a beach and a friend of mine will catch it. Then, we start to pass the frizbee to each other and start having fun. Finally, after 1 or 2 passes, I would grab it and stretch it and throw my ball to the right. This is my great idea for the Rotoball project.

Chart Representations

This image is a good representation of my work because It shows my improvement from both Quarters, quarter 1 and two. In addition, you can see the improvements of Gross speed, Net speed and Accuracy. It shows that I did a great job and I improve, but It also shows that I failed a couple times.




This is a good representation of all my improvement because It shows exactly the same information about Gross Speed, Net Speed and Accuracy. In fact, it really shows how I succeed throughout this 2 Quarters.






This chart is a good representation because it express the improvement I made in Gross Speed, Net Speed and Accuracy. Also, it shows where I failed and where I didn't. You can tell that it is pretty clear all my improvement.

Vacations

There were a lot of things I did this Winter Break. First, my uncle, aunt and cousins came up to visit and stayed like 2 weeks here in Vallarta. We went shopping and visited places such as San Sebastian. They were really excited on going to San Sebastian because they haven't visit it. Plus, some of my parents' friends came with us. It was so much fun because I haven't gone there since I was a little child. Besides that, they invited us to the beach and to the canopy. We enjoyed it a lot; specially because it was all the family there. Christmas celebration was coming and more family was coming up to visit us. It was really excited because for the first time I was going to meet a family related to my mom that I haven't met yet. My dad and his worker had good ideas for the food that they would cook for christmas. Finally, all the family spent a great time in the dinner. We ate a lot , we danced a lot and my brothers and my sister, sang and played the guitar. It was really cool watching them how much they enjoyed what they were doing. My parents brought me a lot of clothes because I didn't want anything that has to do with electronic. At last, The next day, we woke up at 1 pm. It was amazing how late we slept, but what really matter was that we spent a great time together and that we had so much fun.

On New years celebration we spent it in my house, as always, my dad's cooker did the all the food. Some family came up to celebrate with us and watch all the firewoks. It was amazing the view we had from our house, although the firerworks weren't from downtown, they were from all the hotels. We all have a pretty good time, although I went to sleep earlier. I will never forget this New year celebration. It was awesome.