Kyle's Blog

Here is the video of my final Rotoscopy. https://youtu.be/CawPI_98VeQ This was incredibly difficult and I would never want to be an animation major. I'm proud of the wrestling clip; it was very taxing and I put a lot of hours into it, way too many. 

  For this assignment, I created a stop-motion video of my stuffed animals coming to life, hacking into my computer, and discovering all my secrets! My inspiration for this assignment was the childhood movies I've been watching recently, including Toy Story! I made this by myself. I had recorded a video, and then, as I was making changes, I would step out of frame or make a super long pause to make screenshots of the photos I wanted. The hardest part of the assignment came up when I wanted the stuffed animals to do a dolphin dive off my bed onto my desk. I edited myself out of each frame for that since I had to hold the stuffed animals. I was not feeling very creative for a while, so this assignment took longer than usual, but it was fun, and I love these little guys, so I wanted to give them the spotlight. 

     For this assignment I took an irregular photo of myself that I liked and put myself into a jungle. I thought that the idea of being placed into the jungle met my shirt very well as well. My current animal obsession has switched from raccoons to snakes, so I wanted to highlight that within the jungle! I added a fake snake tattoo with two snakes circling me. When it comes to the quality of the photo, I wanted to make it seem like this was shot on a disposable camera or an older camera from the 90's or 2000's. An autoscopy is a phenomenon where somebody visualizes their doppelganger, and I think if I had a cooler doppelganger of myself, I'd probably be like Coyote Peterson and find exotic animals. 

     For this assignment, I chose to recreate the seven deadly sins, but in this photo, there are only six since Sloth overslept. The six sins are trying to have a family meeting, but all of them are seemingly in their own worlds due to their fatal flaws.  Individual Character Breakdown:       The man all the way to the left is Lust . Lust is characterized by their strong sexual desire and ignorance for more meaningful items. I displayed Lust in this photo by being shirtless, looking at themselves in a mirror, and focusing on nobody else except themselves. Lust is self-obsessed and will do anything to flaunt their body or looks, so I wanted to show that in the final photo.       The man standing next to the mirror is Pride . Pride is characterized by their excessive desire for themselves and ignorance of god. Similar to Lust , Pride is self-obsessed. Pride loves flashiness and making sure everybody in the room knows that they're the best. Pride is supposed to be the figurehead of t

  1. Complementary 2. Analogic 3. Monochromatic This assignment to me proved to be a little difficult since I've never played around with manipulating colors in Photoshop before. I enjoyed it, but I think with time I'll be better at manipulating them.  ----- This scene has been always extremely important to me because it shows that love is sometimes limited and not always drawn on to hurt both people. In the show "Fleabag", the priest and the woman fell in love; however, since it is against the church's rules, they can not be together. I've been dealing with a lot of personal life issues currently that pertain to this scene so I wanted to include myself in it! I'm sitting there awkwardly on the other side of the bench just looking to the left to add some comedic relief. 

  The process behind this poster:     In all honesty, this poster has gone through about thirteen metamorphoses. My initial impression after creating my Calligraphy poster is that I wanted to connect the two assignments with the theme of guilt. But nonetheless, starting out with this assignment I had an influx of ideas come to my head about what I possibly wanted to create around the theme.        From a young age I loved horror, still now I love horror. One of my favorite small horror stories was from a YouTube channel named HiImMaryMary, where a woman is stuck in a house with creatures that come out in the night. Each creature is theorized to be a part of her own mental illnesses, such being her anxiety, self-loathing, depression, and guilt.     I have always been oddly obsessed with how the creator displayed guilt. A black shadowy figure stalked her and never truly got close to her until this scene where she was overwhelmed by the demon-like figure. With this inspiration, I was able