3rd Class

Oh lovely topic this week, "Perception of Vision"
It's everywhere...oddly enough, we use it everywhere. In animations and flip books, some neat children's toys. Mind tricks! The human eye is NOT a camera...it takes in an image like one, but it can't function as fast as a camera, we have to scan rate, we can't intake every frame overall the second, we'd have to be god or superhuman to do that. Heh, hummingbird eyes even. but basically it's not possible for a human being to comprehend every intake shot that the eye takes to read into the mind.

But while we're talking about the preseption of vision and such, might as well comment how it works with animation.
In class we're making these neat-o flipbooks, were we're kinda incorperating mult-media..so here's a music video of a nifty band I saw two new years ago...who'se much older than that...but mixes media and just really over displays well.

Aha -Take on me (It's the video waaaay at the bottom... I couldn't figure out how to fix my post after being saved as a draft and get it up here...)




so we also talked about what we'd do in our flip books. I had the idea for mine to do still shot glowsticking, where she's not actually glowsticking but holding the sticks so that when the flipbook comes to life it looks like she's in motion and that the sticks are moving and tracing the light.

Tummy tracing is one idea I had... only beccause it consist of two moves that can be manipulated easily and is possible to photograph.
That's also one thing I really like about this project, we get to do what we want. My friends and I LOVE to glowstick!!! we throw parties in each others basements and just blast that music/dj and swing the sticks about. Most of the time we're free handed, not many do strings. Except for my one friend who breakdances while he glowsticks... that's really cool and I'm sad we never recorded it :(
But here's better examples of glowsticking, it's not just for party people, but is everyday fun and good exersize!