Austin's Portfolio

My Relationship With Technology and Animation

 

            My earliest encounter with animation was drawing comics about world wartwo with a number two pencil on a sheet of notebook paper. As my comics andartistry improved I began to write and draw storyboards and do rough sketches of

the new pages. Then my friends and I discovered Microsoft Paint and downloaded sprite sheets off of various websites for pixelated eight and sixteen bit video games. We could get everything we needed to make a comic or cartoon off of those sites including characters, backgrounds, and props. In my junior year I took an actual animation class with Ms. Nunnery and learned all about Adobe Flash and AfterEffects. Now I’m here.

              Animation and computers to me are a means to improve my art. It makes it faster, cleaner, and better looking. It allows me to create more extensive projects in a smaller period of time that look more professional than if I were to hand draw the project and make a flip book or a comic. Animation is a way to better my work and myself.

               I have a comic about the Iraq War that I’ve been working on since thes eventh grade and it’s about twenty-seven pages long now. Aside from that and what I did in Animation 1 I have no other experiences with major animation projects where I really worked hard and didn’t just do it for fun. I’m ready to learn and do more work on the computer though and I hope to someday animate my comic. Maybe into cartoon that lasts a half of an hour. Also I just want to learn more so that I could have a potential job with an animating studio or work on a personal project in the future like the comic book artist Brian Lee O’ Malley.