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For the explorations project, all Juniors get to explore a topic that interests them and requires skills that they would like to improve on.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An old illustration I made that relates to my lyrical essay, and also can represent the overall theme of this project!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’m an Animation student, so I chose to create several short pose-to-pose looped animations in order to practice principles of animation that I hadn’t really sat down to understand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In English, I wrote a lyrical essay exploring my anxiety, especially in relation to fear of failure, exploring star-related metaphors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally in Digital Media, I explored using Virtual Instruments in Pro Tools in order to write a short instrumental song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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explorations project: idea + research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For this project, I wanted to create several rough pose-to-pose and looped animations, focusing on the animation over drawing quality, anatomy, etc. I realized I had somewhat ignored a lot of principles of animation throughout the year, and I really wanted to improve my animation skills so that I can create more natural movement.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Easing is essentially animating acceleration by drawing more frames at the beginning\/end of a movement and less in the middle. Overshooting is when you draw some frames past where a motion is meant to stop, and then going back again. These were both principles I didn’t really think about or use as much as I should have this year, so I wanted to try to learn them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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explorations project: process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For the first animation, a friend suggested I draw a wagging tail, so I drew a cat. Since this tail had a sort of pendulum motion, I didn’t use overshooting for this one, but I did use easing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a screenshot with all the onion layers showing. You can see that there are more frames at either end of the motion, and fewer in the middle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the second animation, I drew the autism creature bouncing (also at the request of another friend)! I also couldn’t really use overshooting here, but I used easing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here, you can see how there are more frames at the top and bottom, and fewer in the middle, just like the cat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I call the third animation “bonk!” because a person is quite literally getting hit with a ball. For this one, I used easing again but also overshooting! It’s a bit subtle, but there is one frame to the right of when the person is at the upright position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here, I used easing again, and you can also see the light red frame to the right of the black frame, which is where I used overshooting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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explorations project: final product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here are my final animations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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animation: reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I’m definitely very happy with how these came out! I think I achieved my goal of focusing on learning to animate better. While I wish I could have done more of them, given the fact that I only had two weeks to do this project, I’m pretty proud of what I did. The skills I gained from this will definitely be super helpful when I have the time to create a longer animation (hopefully to a song)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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lyrical essay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Click to read full lyrical essay!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In English, we wrote lyrical essays exploring any topic of our choosing! I decided to talk about my anxiety, since it’s something that has been affecting me a lot recently, but also something I’m learning to cope with. Here is the full lyrical essay and annotated bibliography! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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experimental music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In Digital Media, we learned how to use Virtual Instruments in Pro Tools to create our own songs! I wasn’t really sure what to make or how to start since I have almost no prior music experience, but I still had fun with it nonetheless. I didn’t really have any specific inspiration for this music either, although I think it sounds a bit like something from a game. Here is the song I came up with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n