More About Me

Okay, let's get some things straight.


Things that influence me are as follows:
Family
Theater
Disney
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Anime


These are the main spots of my influence. I've mentioned each at some point in the blog but I thought it might be good to give everyone a list.


So what am I posting today? Something Harry Potter related. This is a music video created by a fan for a quick summary of the struggle of defeating the Dark. I show this, not just because it is Harry Potter, but because it is beautifully edited. The music and pictures line up so well, the video tells a story that is only hinted at in the lyrics, between the two of them you can connect emotionally to it. Editing is an art, one that few realize, and I want to share this art with you.

I'll leave you with an extra video too. This one is purely for the Harry Potter lovers and has no real relation to motion the way I see it. It is, simply, a video in tribute. It is for the characters who struggled in the story, for the author who saw her world accepted, for the readers who started the series when it first came out and stayed with it till it was over. The ones who waited to receive their own Hogwarts letter when they turned 11, the ones that stayed up all night to read the newest book, the ones that cried during the ending credits of the 8th film when they realized that Harry Potter was truly done. This is for them - Tribute to Magic. May they all keep the stories in their hearts forever.

Pottermore

Okay, so the Harry Potter series is something that has been a major part of my life since the books were first introduced to the US when I was in 2nd grade. The nightly readings of the latest book by my mom was a very important family time for everyone in my house. The tradition of reading the newest book aloud for the first time is something that continued even with the final book that was released during my high school career.


So what I'm sharing is something that any true Harry Potter fan already knows about, but others might not. Its Pottermore. A website made by Rowling to give us even more information than the books hold. This is the commercial that came out at the beginning of last summer. Unfortunately, though the site was to fully launch in October, it has yet to make its public debut. However, the commercial clearly uses stop motion.


Enjoy.

It's Part of Who I Am

Manga, anime — two things that my mom doesn't like because, in her opinion, they have no plot. Anyone who likes them will agree with me that they all have a plot, some of them being very intricate. What I'm posting now is not me saying that anime is awesome — though it is — but rather me show you something that an anime did that isn't done much.


So this video is the opener for the second season of Wakfu. It's an anime that is actually in french, so finding the flow of the words was a bit difficult. So I'm posting it not just because it's a french series, but also because it's a series that was done completely in Flash! 


Enjoy!

Sorry, I couldn't find one with the subtitles.

Inspire and SyFy

So for those who care, London was fun and Avenue Q is a play for all college students.


Once I got back, our SyFy logo commercial was due for motion design. Here it is below.

My teacher really like it in the end, even though he didn't care for it when it was nearly done being edited. But he liked it in the end so who cares.


The other thing I want to show you is this youtube video that advertises 3 X-Box games that weren't that great, however, the commercial is really cool. On top of that it is really relative to our major since it's all clay stop motion.

This is the video one how they made it.

A Week in London

So I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a while, but I've been in London visiting my sister. While there we've been going to see many plays: Wicked, Singing in the Rain, Lion King, and Avenue Q. Wicked and Lion King I've been waiting a long time to see, the first one since I was in middle school and for the Lion King since I was about 7 years old. It was very awesome to see them finally.


Let me say a bit about them. Wicked was amazing! Though it made me really not like those in Wizard of Oz since they are so mean to the witch. Singing in the Rain was very funny. I had never seen the play or movie but my sister and I got day of tickets and were able to sit in the front row! We did get we but I was laughing too much to care. Lion King was, like I said, something I've been waiting about 13 years to see. I other words I was crazy happy to see it finally. I was really interesting to see how they did all of the animals and Timon and Zazu were my favorite characters. I actually have yet to see Avenue Q. We're seeing it on Friday up in Wales. That will be interesting.









You might think that seeing 4 plays in the span of a week is a lot, and it kind of is, but not to us. My siblings and I have been raised in the theater since our dad does set and lighting designs for high schools. We counted one time and we've seen about 40 different plays - not including the fact that we have seen multiple productions of several stories that would bring it up to like 60.





So when I say that theater is a thing that influances me, I mean it. Think of the break I took on the blog as a study periode.