10th Week - Everything and the Kitchen Sink

This week in Adobe After Effects and Flash Professional, I learned of the wonders of rotoscoping and did some flash amination. I attempted to recreate a famous example of rotoscoping, the Light Saber. I started out with a box that I animated frame by frame to follow the movement of the dummy sword and then duplicated that layer about five times. I then took those individual layers and changed the colors around, as well as adding a feather effect with varying intensity. Then I added in some saber sounds and achieved the final product in the video above. The small amount of time I spent in Flash proved to be unproductive, as I found myself to be extremely rusty with that program.

9th Week - Career

This week in Max, I did not use max as I am waiting for the new licences  for the program. The week was not lost however as time was spent on Kuder Navigator looking at future career paths. One of the careers that I looked at was being a  Radiologic Technologists. When a doctor needs a closer look inside of a patient but doesn't want to jump strait to exploratory surgery the R.T. steps in to lend a helping hand. Radiologic technologists specialize in x-ray, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment. They work directly with patients to explain the procedure and help them through the process as best they can. This career field has a bright outlook with an expected increase in employment of over 10%. The average starting pay is around forty thousand dollars, and being in the medical field the top pay is close to one hundred thousand dollars. As far as schooling is concerned, it ranges from associate degree to bachelor's degree to on-the-job training( if you are already working in the medical field).

7th Week - Presentations

This week in Max, I presented my head to the class. The only difference from last weeks post is that in the video I put the head into a jar because there is no other reasonable way to present a severed head to people.
With last weeks setback behind me, I plan on continuing the modeling of my character and will be either be starting on the lower body or upper torso next.
As for the presentations themselves I did enjoy, as I always have, sitting back for a couple of days to see what everyone has been working on. There was some really nice work done by all the first year students.