Internship
The LINK program helps get Animas High School's juniors out into the world by sending them for three weeks to work underneath a owner of a business. The students go as interns and help their mentors with there business and learn helpful skills and knowledge to help push juniors into what career they want to focus on. Many time the business you intern at will not be what you want to do for the rest of your life but it does get ones gears turning about life after high school. The interns are gone for the first 3 weeks of May and have no classes and only have to keep up with a DP reflection update at the end of each week. The students are given full range at what they want to intern in and with the help of Jenae Hunderman most of the time students can find what they want to do for LINK. Many time however you will not get what you want for LINK and having a positive attitude and know that you will find something that is interesting to you is important.
For my LINK internship I was at Rocky Mountain Animation Labs (RMAL) working under David Tart, a former Pixar animator who worked on many Disney movies. He now owns his own animation studio that everyone can sign up for learn animation. Much of his clientele are adults who want to learn animation. Mr. Tart also teaches online courses for a wide variety of people who either want to do animation as a hobby or as their life career, he is one of the best teachers I have met so far and is able to explain animation techniques so simply and understandable. RMAL is only a newly founded school of animation and is supposed to be expanding rapidly as time goes on, Mr. Tart previously worked with a Animation studio in Denmark and he has seen it grow from a old firefighter house to a international school.
Animation is a very required job at the moment and learning it can never hurt, I was happy to be interning at RMAL and I definitely would recommend talking to Mr. Tart if you have a interest in the world of animation.
Link to RMAL website:
http://www.rockymountainanimationlabs.com/
For my LINK internship I was at Rocky Mountain Animation Labs (RMAL) working under David Tart, a former Pixar animator who worked on many Disney movies. He now owns his own animation studio that everyone can sign up for learn animation. Much of his clientele are adults who want to learn animation. Mr. Tart also teaches online courses for a wide variety of people who either want to do animation as a hobby or as their life career, he is one of the best teachers I have met so far and is able to explain animation techniques so simply and understandable. RMAL is only a newly founded school of animation and is supposed to be expanding rapidly as time goes on, Mr. Tart previously worked with a Animation studio in Denmark and he has seen it grow from a old firefighter house to a international school.
Animation is a very required job at the moment and learning it can never hurt, I was happy to be interning at RMAL and I definitely would recommend talking to Mr. Tart if you have a interest in the world of animation.
Link to RMAL website:
http://www.rockymountainanimationlabs.com/
LINK Project
My short animations aren't fully complete because they have no sound but the main idea of the shorts are to explain how we clay malleable people and how we let gods of this earth control our ways and minds.
Final Reflection
My time at RMAL has reached its end and I am in the final days of interning under David Tart and learning Stop Motion Animation, Pixel Animation, and Claymation. I'm actually surprised on how much I learned, almost every day I watched a short tutorial on animation techniques that Mr. Tart uploads to his online class. I watched his videos and critiqued them on what he could expand on, change, or fix. And the funny thing is all of his videos were amazing at teaching the art style very precisely and quickly. Out of the 6 tutorials he only needed to fix a miss spelled title for one of his videos. The most important thing I learned is the patients of a animators, being able to work on 5-10 minute videos which seems really short but when every there are 24 frame 1 second things move very slowly. Being at Rocky Mountain Animation labs has pushed me in the direction I want to go in, it showed me that even though I love all art I want my career to be in psychology and study the human mind. I was able to think a lot while I was doing stop motion animation, and LINK in general was a good for clearing my head and thinking things over about what I want to do for the time being and expand on it so I will be prepared for college.
I am staying in contact with Mr. Tart and I may be working for him this summer and I am hoping he will write me a recommendation for college . so in the end of LINK really did help me develop my psyche and helped me realize that I want to understand the human mind and the human psyche in general, and it's what I want to strive to understand and help people with problem and be there for them to express what they can't in society or even their closest loved ones.
I am staying in contact with Mr. Tart and I may be working for him this summer and I am hoping he will write me a recommendation for college . so in the end of LINK really did help me develop my psyche and helped me realize that I want to understand the human mind and the human psyche in general, and it's what I want to strive to understand and help people with problem and be there for them to express what they can't in society or even their closest loved ones.
2nd Week Reflection
This week I was building pixel animation props for rocky Mountain Animation labs new short animation that is done by the students.
I had to spends a few hours for 3 days cutting out 2-D animals, there needed to be 6 of each animal movement so that we could simulate a horse, dog, cat, ect to be running in the hands of the student.
Every morning this week I spent about 3 hours going through contacts on students, parents, employees, donators, and other artists, and up dated with more information. I still have plenty of time in the day to work on my animation projects and my LINK project, I have my script and plan is set for my project and I should be filming it come the end of this week.
I'm starting to get the hang of animation and I am starting to understand how much time it really takes for good videos to come out. the planning usually takes and entire day for around 3 minute films.
I had to spends a few hours for 3 days cutting out 2-D animals, there needed to be 6 of each animal movement so that we could simulate a horse, dog, cat, ect to be running in the hands of the student.
Every morning this week I spent about 3 hours going through contacts on students, parents, employees, donators, and other artists, and up dated with more information. I still have plenty of time in the day to work on my animation projects and my LINK project, I have my script and plan is set for my project and I should be filming it come the end of this week.
I'm starting to get the hang of animation and I am starting to understand how much time it really takes for good videos to come out. the planning usually takes and entire day for around 3 minute films.
1st Week Reflection
This week I watched one tutorial video a day and so far I've learned: Stop Motion, Depth and video setting, Arcing, and Ease in Ease out. While many of the tutorial videos are about learning techniques every new video seems to require previously learned skills to advance and gain a full understanding on animation. I am learning slowly but from what Mr. Tart says I have the understanding but I just need to develop more techniques and take things more slowly because in the end animation is extremely time consuming and rushing through it will make your video look rushed and it is very noticeable.
I also learned that there are 24 frames in a second, meaning that I really do have to have a formulated and set script to make my animations look good.
I found out that Mr. Tart has a dog named Jango and as of now when ever he is at the studio I am supposed to take him on walks and such. seems mediocre but I am being taught animation for free so I don't mind.
I've been staying in some of the public lessons that Mr. Tart does and I need to know more in order to do some of the animations that these classes are doing.
I also learned that there are 24 frames in a second, meaning that I really do have to have a formulated and set script to make my animations look good.
I found out that Mr. Tart has a dog named Jango and as of now when ever he is at the studio I am supposed to take him on walks and such. seems mediocre but I am being taught animation for free so I don't mind.
I've been staying in some of the public lessons that Mr. Tart does and I need to know more in order to do some of the animations that these classes are doing.
1st Day Selfie
So fair my first day was of watching a quick stop motion animation tutorial and then proceeded to do the animation of a ball bouncing. After about an hour of animating, Mr. Tart let me leave early because he didn't have anything else for me to do. Awesome first day so far.