Artist Lecture 1 - Shawn Sheeny

     Shawn Sheeny was surely one of the more interesting of the visiting artist lectures we've had recently. He is a graphic artist working mostly with highly elaborate pop up books. A graduate student with a BA degree in education and graphic design, Sheeny also has a MA in Book Arts. Overall the lecture was very educational and not to mention entertaining with Sheenys hip-geek chic sense of humor. He started us of with a brief but slightly slower paced history of book arts in which he spoke of other artists such as Ed Rischa, Pamela Paulsrud, and Emily Martin. He also showed us some great images from other pop up books to reference such as "Dinosaurs" by Mathew Rinehart and St. Louis Pinocchio Pop Ups. Shawn shared with us his work in progress personal book arts designs over the last six year span, which was I must say, quite impressive.

Finals Due Today.

Final finals due today. Technically. However, my schedule from the start does not have me finishing this animation until Thursday morning. So, with that in mind I am still on schedule. But if you look at it as it is due today, no I didn't finish it. It'll get done, though. As well as the DVD and everything that goes on the DVD itself. Majority of the work will be done tonight because I dont actually have to be at my job for once.


I ran into some major problems last night as far as working under my own student login. Programs wouldnt start, wouldnt run, and then files started disappearing. I started working on student login, things went a little smoother, but to replace the missing files I almost had to entirely re-animate half of the project I have already spent the last week working on. So. Given the time constraint, ill do my best to finish this project. It'll be finished, but it will not look how I intended for it to look and the quality will begin to dwindle very quickly.

Overall, i've learned a lot from this class. And i'm excited to use after effects for other projects in the future.

Nov 16: 

Continue working on assets.
Nov 18: 

Continue working on assets and have scenes 1-3 completed at end of day.
Nov 23: 

Scenes 4-6 completed.
Nov 25: 

Finalize working on scenes 4-6. 

For thanksgiving break work on Scenes 7-11.
Nov 30: 

Continue working on scenes 7-11.
Dec 2: 

Finalize scenes 7-11. 

Start on scenes 12-15.

Render out past projects for DVD.

Dec 4:

Have all assets for DVD prepared.

Keep working on scenes 12-15.

Dec 7: 

Finalize scenes 12-15. 

Make any revisions to final project.

Make DVD portfolio/demo reel.

Dec 9: 

Make final revisions. 

Turn in DVD/DemoReel.

Three cheers for the end of the semester and AE.

Final Project Update 5

So far, I'm somewhere in-between on my schedule. I'm sorta on schedule with some things and other things, just kinda not. But alas, I went back and fixed everything we talked about last Tuesday. It still needs work in some areas on the arms, but the main animation is there and its much easier to understand whats going on with the hands. I changed the colors of the arms and legs to match the nose and it looks much better. I also resized all my comps to a wide-screen format pre-set in AE so everything should be fine now. Just gotta keep working, hardcore like. 

Nov 16: 

Continue working on assets.
Nov 18: 

Continue working on assets and have scenes 1-3 completed at end of day.
Nov 23: 

Scenes 4-6 completed.
Nov 25: 

Finalize working on scenes 4-6. 

For thanksgiving break work on Scenes 7-11.
Nov 30: 

Continue working on scenes 7-11.
Dec 2: 

Finalize scenes 7-11. 

Start on scenes 12-15.

Render out past projects for DVD.

Dec 4:

Have all assets for DVD prepared.

Keep working on scenes 12-15.

Dec 7: 

Finalize scenes 12-15. 

Make any revisions to final project.

Make DVD portfolio/demo reel.

Dec 9: 

Make final revisions. 

Turn in DVD/DemoReel.