Flipbook lite...

I've just discovered an app, on my phone, which creates quick and easy animations. It's called flipbook, and I downloaded the free version. The app appears to be quite good, you create an image, and then when making the next images, the app has onion skinning, so it makes it easier to transition between the two slides. I think this is a great piece of software, as it allows even the most inexperienced of users, to create a relatively easy, and controllable flipbook animation. It is obviously just an app for people to play around in their free time, or whilst commuting ect, but it makes complete sense in a visual communication perspective, as I find often the most simplest of ideas, such as this, can be manipulated to create a grander scale of work; and so I applaud simple apps like this, for helping people to create simple artwork for fun...


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Stills (Drawn Animation)...

Here are a few of the still, from a few quick drawn animations that i hae been working on, the few kind of interlink with each other, and i may make it one animation in the end, but i just wanted to experiment with different techniques for each, so we shall see...

Youtube...

So this is my youtube page, some of the videos I have uploaded are on here, and the text box, explains my views on the piece of work in question...
I shall get a vimeo ste up too, as I'm thinking about starting a new youtube account, and starting afresh, but for now...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pmuzza2002&search_type=&aq=f

Animation tutorial...

These are two videos which we where shown in our tutorial today, I really like them both, and admire the way that they have both worked. However if I where to have a favorite, it would most defiantly be Deadline, because of the way they have made a simple object into this huge video animation, I find it inspiring, as I do love the fact that what I feel is true, that anything can be animated, and as this is a relatively new concept to me, I find the idea still amusing, fun and incredibly inventive.
Western spaghetti, I feel is a great animation, and obviously it took a lot of time and effort, and many inventive ideas, but to me it was a little complex, with the amount of things being animated, I feel that i will come to appreciate this film more, but at the moment find the prospect a little overpowering, and therefore feel that it was not the best out of the two in my eyes, not just yet anyways...

Twitter...

So as twitter has become something that I have found myself becoming drawn to, I feel that making it part of my blog, may help me to do it more. And so I have been on the internet and found a quick and easy way to put twitter incorporated with my blog. The idea of twitter just being short little updates, and a lot less intrusive than the likes of facebook and myspace, is something that appealed to me, and the fact that I have already been using it to record interesting quotes I find, and things that influence me, are already on there, maybe it will be something that I will keep up, and make it easier to blog onto rather than a blog being a blog in the conventional style as I see it, boring and a tad geeky...

Get over it...

Well as of my rant the other day, I have spoken to Hayley, whilst doing our claymation, about blogging and ect, she thinks that I should just get over it and do a blog, as she was as hesitant as me, but feels that it has really helped her, I have spoken to a few people and gotten this response, and I feel that I will maybe give the blogging a go for the remainder of this project, and maybe the next one, if I feel it worthy, however should I find that it is not for me, then I will have no hesitance in stopping, and reverting back to my old pen and paper method.

Stubborn as a mule...

It has recently come to my attention, that I'm much more stubborn than I thought I was. I've realised that, If someone tells me to do something, immediately I do not want to do it; even if it will benefit me. This has obviously taken me quite some time to fully-realise. Since I was younger, I would always automatically stray from the norm, and not wanted to do what everyone else was; and if I am truthfully honest, I do not want to confrom and do a conventional blog.

I think this problem comes with the way I work, I am very much a pen and paper person, and I now feel that the conventional blog is not for me. I find the idea of "having" to do one, ridiculous, and quite frankly stupid, hence why I have only hesitantly done few blog entries at present. So I have decided that blogging does not work for me, and that I am not willing, at present to do it, in the way that others have, so as I've pretty much been keeping a personal reflective diary, I'm going to show a "blog", the way I want to do it...