Sunday, January 16, 2011
Week 2
The second week has come to a close. Week 2 brought some drawing, gestural sketches to be specific. That was painful. Loud screeches of rusted cogs coming to life. Regardless of them being very quick drawings it's obvious I am strongly out of practice.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Clean slate
Here we are, this is the first week, of the first class...of the rest of my life?
This blog exists to catalog my work, experience and growth during the next 18 months and maybe longer. By observation of the world and by much more blunt words from those of my peers, it would seem blog has become primary way in which we digital artists keep an online portfolio and interact with the world on a personal level. As opposed to part of the media machines that collectively we make up.
Backing up a bit, I have recently begun Animation Mentor. For those of you who are unaware it is an 18 month online program teaching animation via a system of mentors and pre-made lectures. You'll note the duration I estimate to use this blog corresponds in a 1:1 ratio with the duration of AM. Nifty eh?
First Impressions:
My first week of Animation Mentor is rolling to a close and while the assignment for this week consisted of uploading an avatar and filling out a personal profile I have a strong feeling of how the program feels. The experience is not unlike joining a social network with the difference being 2 fold.
A) You don't know anyone ahead of time
B) You all have a very similar and shared experience, and passion.
You are also, throughout the entire curriculum recommended to, with the incentive being grades, to go through and post critiques on 5 peoples assignments a week. This program, and the videos they have published to their students have seemed to create a very strong and self propelling social machine of critique, inspiration, emoticons and exclamation marks. Many exclamation marks. While I am innately anti-social and shy, I am entering this environment with an open mind hoping to reap the benefits of this system.
The program also seems to recognize and embrace its internet bound medium. There are many interviews with some of the industries heavy hitters, tutorials, student interviews on their workflow, tools for download and the amazing ability to view every single students every single assignment and the accompanying "e-Critique" from their mentor during each term.
I think I will like it here.
Here we go.
This blog exists to catalog my work, experience and growth during the next 18 months and maybe longer. By observation of the world and by much more blunt words from those of my peers, it would seem blog has become primary way in which we digital artists keep an online portfolio and interact with the world on a personal level. As opposed to part of the media machines that collectively we make up.
Backing up a bit, I have recently begun Animation Mentor. For those of you who are unaware it is an 18 month online program teaching animation via a system of mentors and pre-made lectures. You'll note the duration I estimate to use this blog corresponds in a 1:1 ratio with the duration of AM. Nifty eh?
First Impressions:
My first week of Animation Mentor is rolling to a close and while the assignment for this week consisted of uploading an avatar and filling out a personal profile I have a strong feeling of how the program feels. The experience is not unlike joining a social network with the difference being 2 fold.
A) You don't know anyone ahead of time
B) You all have a very similar and shared experience, and passion.
You are also, throughout the entire curriculum recommended to, with the incentive being grades, to go through and post critiques on 5 peoples assignments a week. This program, and the videos they have published to their students have seemed to create a very strong and self propelling social machine of critique, inspiration, emoticons and exclamation marks. Many exclamation marks. While I am innately anti-social and shy, I am entering this environment with an open mind hoping to reap the benefits of this system.
The program also seems to recognize and embrace its internet bound medium. There are many interviews with some of the industries heavy hitters, tutorials, student interviews on their workflow, tools for download and the amazing ability to view every single students every single assignment and the accompanying "e-Critique" from their mentor during each term.
I think I will like it here.
Here we go.
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