Animation, My Passion
Posted by josh on January 5, 2010
This post idea came from a post assignment from South Paris Collaborative in Long Island
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A big passion of mine is film and animation. I love to make videos. Especially animated ones. I find a unique thrill in creating a video that I know will make people smile. My favorite types of videos to make are animated ones. Especially stop motion, which is when you take a picture of an ordinary object (usually something that wouldn’t normally move) move it a little, take another picture, move it a little ect. It takes forever but the final product turns out to be something amazing. A few types of stop motion are Claymation (stop motion using clay) and Lego Stop Motion. I haven’t done very much Claymation because I can’t sculpt to save my life, but I do a ton of stop motion videos. You can see some of them at my youtube account. I also do animation on this site called Hatena.
In my life I hope to keep animating. I intend to keep animation as a hobby and I don’t expect it to develop into a major aspect of my career later in life. (I hope to become a teacher) Maybe I can use animated videos as a teaching tool but that is it.
One thing that really holds me down with my animation is my parents. They only let me have an hour and a half of computer/video game time every day so most of my videos end up not getting finished because I don’t have sufficient time to finish them. More than 50% of the animating process in in the editing for stop motion and 100% of it for all other types of animation. I usually take five minutes here and ten minutes there to do these videos and that makes the already tedious animating process take even longer.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:12 am
G’day Josh. Great blog. I am a teacher from Australia. I noticed your passion about animation. You may like to check out http://www.goanimate.com. A great FREE website with some really good features that will keep you animating for hours. Keep up the good work.