Flap Your Wings and Fly

Welcome to My Home Page

Do you remember why I became a Freestyle student? Maybe not. You might got lost on how much text my self-portrait had. So let me refresh your memory. I became a Freestyle student became I was so into anime (self-portrait webgem- is where the explanation is). I was so into that I start wondering about animation and said wow animation is everywhere; from baby nursery songs on YouTube, Movies that we are watching; like Wreck-It-Ralph, Frozen, and Big Hero 6, and also the anime shows I watched. Believe me I watch a lot. So it just so happen that Freestyle Academy went to my school to pass out application for their program. So I decided to take the chance to reach my dreams of making my own animation. That is the purpose of this Narrative Website.

The Narrative Website includes portrait, illustration, and fairytale that I did in Design class. We spent a lot of time and effort on the fairy tale assignment. And most of all the one that got me closer to my dreams is the process of actually making my very own animation. The process first started in english class where I had to create a story that would be used all throughout the narrative unit. I also have to draw out that story that I develop. It was to have the set up of an actual story like the setting, rising action, conflict, and the climax but also have a drawing that tells a story. The drawings should include at least 1 of the 3 point perspective drawing, a panel composition, a degree of realism and abstraction drawings, and of course closure that we learn on understanding comics. You would see my drawings came to life through my animatic with sounds and moving drawings. I did this process by sliding up my drawing and turning the sliced pieces into scenes of my animatic and the story I used on the animatic would just be animated in web to make it better and black and white drawings on the monitor. The fairytale is used to be get some ideas for the story and the portrait is where you can capture the scene of your story in my case it is the behind the scene emotion of what my character is really feeling. That is what I learn in design class. And the question of why the answer is simple because all classes are connected what you started on English it will get pass on to Design and would be finish in web.

picture of my Toon Boom Animatic
this is my Toon Boom animatic sceenshot it might a bit blury but please appreciate my affect.

You would see I that use Toon Boom (an animation software to create your very own animation.) and also Pro Tools the next step after I have mastered Garageband. I haven’t really learn about Pro Tools much but I'll sure sure I do. I will definitely make your own sound. Also I would use Pro Tools for making/recording my music and that is what you are hearing right now. The song you are hearing is produced by Pro Tools. My song will be Stand By Me by Ben E. King because I always want my mom standing by my side like this song is saying. It holds a special connection I have with my mom. I want her to be proud of me and always watch over me.

A split view of Pro Tools and Garage Band

My Reflection is that I was so excited to work on my own my animation that I don’t really have the inspiration to get started. Once I do I didn’t have a chance to work on it. Since life is hard. I think the narrative project is great in all but my reflection to myself kind of decrease. I want to tell you what my story is about. My story for my Graphic Novel is about a baby bird that want to explore beyond it nest to fly and feel free.