#5

                Why am I doing this anyways? That’s a broad topic. Well for first off I am doing this certain assignment because its graded. I want a two for all of the assignments that a two is the highest grade possible for. As for why I’m doing animation? Things just clicked. I had all of the prerequisites and the class fit my schedule perfectly. Just excellent timing. My schedule matches up with my sister’s schedule and we share a car so now we don’t have to wait around on one another because we get out of class at the same time and can just go home. It’s a real pain to share a vehicle with someone when your schedules don’t match. I can’t leave this animation choice completely up to faith though, even if it did fall into place perfectly.  

                I wanted to take this class to learn about new animation programs and to see what I could do. To expand my horizons a little and boy have they been expanded! After effects is one crazy new program that has entered my life and found a place to stay. I’m so proud of the bouncing balls that I’ve made on there. I still feel like a noob, but also proud.

                I was starting to feel like my brain was stuck in a rut, I needed a new form entertainment for my brain. I wasn’t liking any of the ideas that I was coming up with and I thought that maybe animation would make me think about all sorts of new stuff. That goal has been accomplished because now I think about new types of ideas all of the time. I can’t seem to stop thinking about stop motion ideas for film #2 now and I’ve never thought about stop motion in my life before this week.

                Even though I entered the class not knowing what to expect I’m getting what I wanted out of it so far.