Blog #3

While working here at ASAP, I have been learning mostly office etiquette. Which, while not relating directly to animation, I am learning to work well with coworkers. Like I said before I am the only animator here at the program which is good and bad. I have complete creative freedom here, and I usually ask what they would like to see in terms of posts. So we have come to the conclusion that I shall make 3 major 3D posters for the programs upcoming 3 events. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I have about 3 weeks to finish and render each individual post while also working on things for the Fun Committee. So its going to interesting to say the least. The 3 as I have learned have to be interesting enough to get students to attend the actual events. So this comes to my advantage since I keep up on the latest trends and things that would interests people. I usually spend 2 days at the internship doing 12 hours a week. So normally I would come in the morning around 9 Am, and speak to the administrative coordinator who meets with the director frequently. I also usually speak to the other members of the social media group to find out exactly what they are doing themselves. While we work together they post things on the programs Snapchat and Instagram normally that I usually do not see as we sit on opposite sides of the office. While I am here I am doing a lot of research on what upcoming animators are doing while entering the industry, while also looking at my dreams companies standards. I do this just to be able to look at my work and decide if it is what others consider up to standard. Which is why I had such a hard time making my demo reel completely. I do everything on Maya which is the industry standard for 3D animation. Here I am learning everyday new techniques that would make my work go by much faster and seeing progress.

Blog #2

I got hired here at ASAP to be the sole animator for their social media team. My supervisor Kwesi Samuels is our program Director. I decided to intern here at ASAP because of the connections I already have made here, as well as being aware that they could use more help in their social media department. My in person interview did not last very long, he asked me questions relating as to what I would provide ASAP if I were to become part of their social media team. Another important question I was asked is how would I help the team exactly. I was hired the next week to begin working for the program. During my first week I joined the programs “Fun committee”. This committee is largely made up of 4 academic advisors, our administrative coordinator, 1 student ambassador and myself. Within this group of people we help decide how the events that happen every month is planned. These events are for students within our program to meet and socialize with each other, while also doing activities that are always arranged for the events.

In my first meeting I was put on duty of helping film and record some scenes for our Halloween events that is happening at the end of October. This event is themed and we helped come up with ideas on how to possibly scare students and have them go through an event together to help them solve puzzles. While not initially what I expected to be doing I will be counting anything I do for these events in my internship presentation for the end o the month.

Blog #1

Searching for an Internship at the beginning of the semester was difficult at first because I have to find one specifically for animation. As an animator you have to have a well done and complete Demo Reel showing off what you have learned so that companies can help you further progress your techniques. I however did not have my demo reel complete for the semester because I only had 1 3D animation class. While yes I could have done stuff on my own to further help myself learn, I heavily depended on the school system to help me, which was my biggest mistake. So with this being said I decided that I should go to people who can actually help me get an internship.

I spoke to a couple friends who already recommended me just speaking with my boss to see if I become a part of the social media team at our program ASAP. So our social media group is handled by some our Peer mentors who deal with issues students have in the program. Anyways, I have the basic skills to provide some 3D posters and small animations for the program. Asap has around 40 people working under the company here at city tech specifically. The Asap program itself is CUNY wide with thousands helping to keep the program intact all across the CUNY campuses. ASAP’s purpose is to help freshman students who are entering college have a support system to help them graduate within 2 years. The Accelerated Studies in Associates Program is the reason why City Tech’s graduation rate has actually increased in the last 5 years that it has become a part of the campus. We are located at 172 pearl street, which is the Environmental building which is part of City Tech’s campus. Our program is free for students who are eligible to join the program which we recruit every semester.

Banner/Logo

The reason I specifically chose to make my banner like that was because I really like Naruto and also I enjoy my two Initials DG. I made sure give the person who drew that specific Naruto drawing their credit. I also put 3 words that sort have defined my motivation for even going to college.

VIDEO PROJECT (LINK)

I had a fun time shooting this video with Cat. It was a fun experience, even tho we sounds rather serious it was actually an enjoyable time. You can ask Cat, we had no issues filming the lighting, sound, and quality of the video came out rather good. I have no complaints.

Field Trip

The Field trip was actually rather interesting. Mainly because it was a different experience because of the fact that I did not know that printing took so much work and effort to create beautiful pieces. I learned that newspapers are all over the place and busy is the fact that it has a limited amount of space. They make thousands sometimes millions of copies of the same pages over and over and over again. They make so many copies because they are high in demand. Sometimes people do not realize how much copies are made of the same papers and are dispensed and shipped out. This also happens daily! This is not the only form of printing we saw. We saw others that print out the huge billboards people see. He described it as the easier version, since its so far people do not really need to see all the details compared to that of a close up picture. They just need to see the important stuff and thats it. I actually enjoyed going to the UFT building. They seemed to enjoy what they did for a living.

Research Paper John Lasseter

John Lasseter is an American animator and film director who works for the officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. John is 59 years old and is currently still working and animating for Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Pixar Animation Studios. The reason I chose this man to do my research paper, was most likely due to the fact that whenever I think of Pixar (which is my favorite animation studio.) I think of John Lasseter almost immediately. He is very known for his participation in very highly rated animated movies such as Toy Story and others like A Bugs Life. Lasseter was born in Hollywood, California and his mother was an art teacher. So you can see where his artistic side came from. While he was growing up his mother only influenced his passion for art and pushed him to do what he would like to do. As a teenager Lasseter seemed to have debated on what to do while growing up. He did have an enormous passion for drawing, he even drew in church, he still debated on what to go into when it came to college. Lasseter went to watch an animated movie, The Sword in the Stone, and because of that Disney film Lasseter finalized his decision to become an animator. He later began his university studies at Pepperdine University, but later continued his studies in California Institute of the Arts. He went into the (at the time) new character animation. After he finished his and got his degree he immediately received a job at Disney for his works during his studies. Mostly for Lady and the Lamp. There he began his career as animator and gained the credit he so deserves.

Logo Research

D/Gombs/Section D306/Week 2 Assignment

The world’s most famous superhero, Batman, is easily recognizable today by just having a simple black bat logo. Although this is the most known Batman logo today, it did not take one day for it to become this logo. As a matter of fact it took nearly 75 years to evolve into the logo to the left. The Batman logo was created and introduced by the comic legend Jerry Robinson, who was known for the DC comic Batman during the 1940’s. I am not going to talk about the typical bat icon that batman usually has on top of his chest. I am going to talk about the logos created in the late 1940’s for the covers of his comic books. This logo was created by Bob Kane, who is known as THE or one the creators of Batman. Bob Kane was the sole artist at the time for the Batman comics. The first logos were created to sort of hide the whole identity of “The Batman”. Which at the time no one knew was Bruce Wayne. The font Kane chose was rather bold and it was hand written. He also drew the figure of the Batman.

Later on in the years Batman’s identity was revealed to the readers they gave him a face to match with the name. Same goes for the logo of the Batman which also has his face in between the “BAT” and “MAN”. The font was still bold and the words are split between the head of the the Batman logo. This Logo was created by Jerry Robinson, who is another well known creator and contributor to the creation of Batman. He was hired by

Kane to help with the art of the Batman comics in the late 1950’s.

In a couple of years the word BATMAN was first reunited and put as one word (which is something they kept over the years). After this issue which was in the early 1960’s the Batman word is re-written finally and is a little more refurbished, which is something they tried to do to keep the readers at the moment.

(BRIGHT YELLOW IS REWRITTEN ONE)

About 30 to 40 years later Batman has received a quite simplistic type of logo. It is a simple all caps font that has the Batman himself behind the logo. This, for the most part, stays consistent even today in the Batman comics. Has no dash or space between it, and the picture of Batman himself does not take up all the attention since the word is bright yellow. Although the original creators of batman might not have much contribution to the logos and covers for the Batman comics
today. They still influenced the simplistic way that the logo for Batman comics have evolved.