Tom Hapgood

The Cost of an Animation Final

Oh, the irony of “bringing life” to something through animation, and appearing to lose your own through the process. This poor student worked so hard in all of his courses at the end of this semester that it (seemingly) nearly finished him off. He eventually fell off in a dramatic way, but didn’t seem to bounce or kick up a puff of dust, nor did we see any little birds or stars circling around his head.

Film Festival Screenings Friday, Saturday

Buffalo Flows will be shown Friday, November 14th, at 7:00 p.m. in Theatre 1, or JBHT 216
‘Free, If Only,’ my motion short film, will show just before Buffalo Flows on Saturday, November 15th, at 1:50 p.m. in Theatre 2, or JBHT 266
Details here

The Buffalo Flows Screenings

View The Buffalo Flows web site here
According to Writer/Producer Larry Foley in the Department of Journalism, the screening of The Buffalo Flows documentary was standing-room-only at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival recently. My contribution to the film, which was photographed by Trey Marley of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and edited by Dale Carpenter in the Department of Journalism, is some animation and the packaging design, a piece of which is shown above. The image on the front of the packaging is by Tim Ernst, the famed Arkansas photographer.

The next screening of the film is at 7:00 p.m. on November 14th, in the JB Hunt building as part of the 2008 Northwest Arkansas Documentary Film Festival. Everyone is welcome to come and view (and even volunteer).

‘Elements of Animation’ course’s stop-motions posted

Take a look at the Elements of Animation course’s stop-motion projects, such as this one by Jacob Bain.

Animation Class 5-Frame story

The Elements of Animation class’ first assignment was to create a 5-frame photographic story and post it into the Flickr “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)” group, and then see what comments and feedback they get from the crowd at large. Here they are:

Fat Little Piggy
The Lonely Drunk
Directions??
Analog
Organic Architecture
Ready to Ride
Unfortunate Life of a Beet
Unexpected
Can Attack
Birth of a Bubble
Loss Prevention
The Life of a Chick Magnet

24-Hour Film Festival through Art Amiss

Ready. Set. Shoot….

Prepare for the ultimate test of your creative abilities, not to mention your plain old endurance and will: The first annual Art Amiss 24 Hour Film Festival will take place in conjunction with Art Amiss VIII. An unlimited number of teams will race to complete a short film in the course of a single day. The likely-to-be uneven results will be screened at Art Amiss VIII.

More details here.

Second Life Andidate Convention

The Web 2 class has completed setting up their “andidate’s” convention booth/presence on the UA island in Second Life. I’m trying to figure out how to best get people in there to walk around for a day or two, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, here are the images of each student’s work. Which andidate would you vote for?

Elements of Animation 3D Projects

Finally posted a few of the final projects from the Elements of Animation class of Fall 2007. These projects use the Carrara 3D Basics 2 and iMovie software and some use GarageBand for the audio. They’re very impressive pieces of animation for the very short amount of time (~3 weeks) and this being a beginner class. Congratulations on some great work!
PS – Click the little book icon below, then click Episodes to see the others

Digital Storytelling Makeshop scheduled

Create a digital, personal narrative that can be shown on DVD or posted to the Web. The makeshop attendees will utilize modern, easy-to-use software in constructing their digital stories, including scanning of photos and documents, digitizing videos, writing and recording a voiceover script, using music and editing it all together. It will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday November 2nd and Friday November 9th at the New Design Center 572 W. 6th Street in Fayetteville, AR.

More information on the Digital Storytelling Makeshop here.

Trying blip.tv for our animations

How does it look? I’m generally comparing blip.tv quality against YouTube. This one is “The Lonely Rose,” by Sean Borsodi.

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