Christmas update

A lot to cover!

I've been doing fairly well in my program, Pre-Animation and Illustration at Algonquin college in Ottawa, ON.

My grades are good (as far as I know); but that is not the point of the program.
The focus is portfolio preparation and building the foundations of proper drawing.

It is very hard work; intensive, but sometimes I miss the fine arts. Doing a painting, not a great work of art, just a simple still life, or lovely landscape...
I look forward to the next semester though, new year, new adventure.
After that I am unsure, Illustration, Fine Arts, Animation? All have advantages and disadvantages.

Here is a little seasonal graffiti, thinking of someone special.

Merry Christmas all!

A

Animation

Alright.

This is what I'm up too right now.

It's been pretty tough learning Boom Toon Animation on my own, so due to the time constraints (trial's expiring)  I've switched to a nifty little free program called "Pencil".   

Right now I'm just experimenting.  So we have a rough animated sketch of the protagonist running (In poor loss frame style) and then jumping off a cliff (use your imagination as I did not actually draw the cliff) and falling.   It's been fun, but it's time to get to work!

I'm trying to figure out how to get this on here. (I think YouTube should do.)  But I don't have a lot of footage...

I think I'm changing focus.  I'm going to focus more on quality then quantity.  So the frame a day acctually counts.  The frame as an art piece.   

A.

P.S.  (This is one of the scrappy frames made with "pencil"  I think I'm going to go all traditional really tight inks.)

   

Persistence of Vision

A little about the title.

 

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which even nanoseconds of exposure to an image result in milliseconds of reaction (sight) from the retina to the optic nerves. This is because persistence of vision depends on chemical transmission of nerve responses, and this biochemical hysteresis is much slower than the light transmission.

~wikipedia~

It goes on and on, but the bottom line is it relates to the optical illusions in the rapid viewing of frames as in film and animation.  Or even flip books. 

But to me, besides the implications in a visual art medium, (animation, film, etc.) This phrase can also mean other things.

Perhaps, The persistence of the vision?  As in relation to artistic drive.  

My vision persists.

That was what I was thinking when I named my blog.  

It's such a pain coming up with interesting names for stuff like this.  

I think It suits it.