Journal Entry – Week 1

Prompt 1:

• Hi there! My name is Deanna Vega, my major is animation and motion graphics. I picked this course because I thought it would be fun and that it fits my major. I don’t think I have a particular type of animation I’m more interested in. I hope that one day I get to work on my own personal projects as a sustainable career, or be in a studio/team I admire the values of. Besides that, I am a proud collector of 2 cats (Mochi Goliath Cinnamon Swirl and Onyx). I like to bake, digitally draw, and make jewelry.

Prompt 2:

• I really like the shows Gravity Falls and Demon Slayer. For Gravity Falls I love the characters and story telling. It appealed to me as a tween and I still admire it for the creativity and heart it had. For Demon Slayer it’s basically the same but I also admire the animation and style choices.
  • Gravity Falls was aired in the summer of 2012 by Disney and then later Disney XD. The animation was 2D and they and would have used the program Toon Boom at the time (I’ve used that once in High School which I find cool).
  • Demon Slayer is an anime first aired in Spring 2019 but was a manga previously. The studio that made the show is Ufotable. The animation is 2D with 3D CGI backgrounds, which I think is done in a very balanced way and many of the scenes are just stunning.

Hello, Professor and classmates of World History of Animation, my name is Tyree McQueen. I am a sophomore here at BMCC and this is my fourth and final semester, as I will be graduating this spring 2022. My current major is Animation and Motion graphics. Art and animation have truly been a passion for as long as I can remember and I am just so glad I have the opportunity to follow this career path and actually have an interest in what I am learning. When I think of an area of animation era of animation I would love to learn more about, I always think of the Golden Age of Animation, specifically the tropes and methods used by these animators during their earlier years. I have always been a fan of Max Fleisher and his style of animation, but i would love to learn more about how the animator utilized rotoscoping to create such realistic and fluid imagery. It must have been one interesting process.

I am involved in a couple of hobbies, each focusing on a different aspect of my personality that I aim to cultivate. To improve my artistic and creative skills, I joined a digital design community on Discord. Every Friday, we gather in a server to learn new skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and even Procreate. This has allowed me to create more expressive art that I am proud of. I also attend Kickboxing every weekend from Friday through Sunday to increase my athletic and physical capabilities. This helps me maintain my productivity and output into the new week and relieves my stress from constantly doing schoolwork. When I think of an animated property that I truly like, the film that always comes to mind is Fantasia. I don’t if it was the aesthetically pleasing backgrounds, the visual gratifying practical effects combined with traditional 2d animation, the fluid imagery synchronized perfectly with the musical scores, or classic principles like squash & stretch being utilized within the wonderful dance sequences, but this movie truly knew how to push the limits of what animation could be going forward. Just an overall amazing spectacle to watch.

Hi! My name is Natalia, I’m a VAT major in my last semester here at BMCC. I wanted to take this course because I’ve always loved animation even if I never necessarily wanted to be an animator. I really love claymation, like those old Christmas ones that come on every year, and especially Pingu. I think I want to work on writing in shows or just be an assistant on sets currently, but I am looking to transfer to New York City Tech in the fall for Technical Design. I love rodents and enjoy writing letter/collecting any sort of stationery. I’ve got a lot of stickers.

Hello Everyone! My name is Kari Munoz. This course was chosen because it was required for my Business Administration degree. Since it appears more visually appealing, I’d like to learn more about “Stop motion” animation. My major is Business Administration, and after BMCC, I plan to transfer to Baruch College to pursue a Marketing degree. My current interests include going to the gym to keep myself healthy and doing eyelash extensions as a side hustle. :)))

My name is Amina Toole and my major is animation and motion graphics, I chose this course because im very interested in learning the history of animation and learning about animation from around the world that is unknown to me presently. My ultimate career goal and dream is to go to a school in france called les Gobelins, I want to go there for a masters in animation direction. I recognize that it will be very hard for me to get to this school at my current skill level, but I plan to work extremley hard to be at the quality level, of the work that emerges from Gobelins. Some of my hobbies include cooking, skateboarding, and listening to vinyl records. I also have a rescued black cat with one eye named Patoot, whom I love very much.  Some of my favorite animated films are from the 1960s to 90s, I really appriciate older experimental animation for its innovation and creative approaches.  One of my favorite animated movies is the yellow submarine released in 1968, it is a movie dedicated to the beetles albumn “The yellow submarine”. Another movie that I find very interesting is a French animated film called fantastic planet released in 1973. Its a relativley strange film, but I really appriciate it for its otherworldly asthetics and experimental funk music soundtrack.

Hello everyone! My name is Yusuf Aldacher. I am a sophomore in BMCC and this is my last semester in which I’m soon going to be graduating in this Spring of 2022. I am majoring in Studio Arts. My career plan is to be a character designer or background designer for the gaming industry. My hobbies of mine are just drawing anything that includes modern military and medieval characters. The reason I chose this course is that I always admired how animation reached different levels throughout the years and always had a curiosity about how it all started. The animations of anime are what first inspired me to go for drawing. The Japanese animations of their “anime” cartoons were way ahead of their time or even more advanced than the Disney or western animations. I’m very interested in learning how did the Japanese make their animations so immersive.

One of my favorite animes that I’ve watched is Re-Zero. The studio for this is White Fox, the artist is Tappei Nagatsuki and the first season was released on April 4th, 2016. Re-Zero was originally a light novel that I haven’t read yet and look forward to reading in the future. I’m not a big fan of extremely gory anime, but this anime was too good to stop watching. It got darker as it approached season 2, but what I really liked about this anime was how it involves every character in the main plot. In many movies or series, we see how the side character always appears for a bit and then never makes an appearance again. In Re-Zero, every character has their own important contribution to the plot and one of the characters I appreciated seeing often was Otto and it took me by surprise to see how important he had become in the future episodes.

My name is Zarah. I chose this course to learn about the history of animation and to know more about how its used in other parts of the world, it is also a class I’m required to take for my major, which is animation and motion graphics. There isn’t a specific genre of animation I like its all beautiful. My career goals is try to put my art work into live motion such as animation and use it maybe for movies or a little show or just even a short video. I hope in the future my animation would be very useful. some hobbies i have is drawing and painting of course, gymnastics, and dancing.

My name is Victoria Marquez, and my major is Animation and Motion Graphics. I picked this course because I want to learn more about how animation began as well as see how much it has evolved from the past to present time. Types of animation that I want to learn more about are rotoscope and stop motion. My career goal is to create my own animated series. I like to draw, create stories as well as my own characters. A favorite pass time for me is either watching anime or playing with my dog Luna.

Good Evening everyone my name is Kelvin the reason why I picked this course was because I am a huge fan of anime and want to learn how everything is bought together to make a film or tv show from the different technical equipment used to the first drawing that’s made and it’s bought all together. my major is Studio Arts this is my second semester at BMCC my career goal after bmcc is to transfer to FIT for sneaker design. Activities that I love to do on my free time is drawing as well I am a avid Sneaker Collector and I also enjoy studying the sneaker industry and see the ins and outs of the industry and how it works.

My name is Naiquan Kibler and I picked this class because animation has been a big part of my life from a young age so naturally I became quite interested in learning more about the subject. In particular, I am most interested to learn about anime. My major is psychology and my career goals as of right now are graduating from BMCC and transferring to Baruch to get my Masters degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology. My favorite hobbies are anime, playing games and thinking about why people or things are the way they are. I am also looking into getting into editing in my spare time. My favorite food is chicken alfredo.

My name is Kamara. My major is studio art. I picked this course to understand what exactly animations are and how they are made. I’m not too sure on what I want to do after bmcc. Some fun facts about me are I like video games, my favorite food is mac, cheese and i don’t have any pets and I like Legos. My favorite show is SpongeBob and favorite color is purple

Hi folks! My name is Abdul Sami and I am have picked this course because its relatable to what I see everyday in my mobile devices and that’s why I have chosen this class out of the others from the World Cultures and Global Issues section where I had to pick at least one for my engineering science major. I mostly interested about CGI that I will be learning here. After I graduate with associates degree from BMCC, I plan to continue on for mechanical engineering as my major for my 4 year college. One fun fact about me is that I have a passion for gaining some knowledge about every aspect of what the world has in its wonders.

My name is Mariel Flores I am 22 years old and my major is multimedia and design. I chose this course so that I can get a better understanding of how animation works and how much it has changed and came along the way throughout the years. My career goals is to find a good path in graphic design and help businesses or any one to get their message or design out there. A few fun facts about me is that I have a cat named goose, I recently got my bartending license and have been at bmcc for a year now.

Steven Universe

One of my favorite animated shows is Steven Universe because there is so much diversity in the characters and animated freedom. It was made by Rebecca Sugar and first came out on November 4th, 2013. It was produced by Cartoon Network who is also one of the goated studios in my eyes when it comes to animation. The graphics for this show were always so abstract and different. It was such unique Animation. As you can see in the picture, there are all different kinds of shapes and figures to represent the gems and people. The coloring of the animation for every character always had different splash of something to it. There was always diversity in the way they looked, acted, spoke, and lived. For Example, Garnet was a character that was a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire gems, and the way it was animated. I can’t put another picture here so I will put the link here instead https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e5ca3930-8cae-41a7-ace8-db0f0161b62f/d979cg4-56e98c50-accc-472c-ae73-edc671bd1b51.png/v1/fill/w_777,h_1029,q_75,strp/steven_universe___garnet_05_by_theeyzmaster-d979cg4.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwic3ViIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl0sIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi9lNWNhMzkzMC04Y2FlLTQxYTctYWNlOC1kYjBmMDE2MWI2MmYvZDk3OWNnNC01NmU5OGM1MC1hY2NjLTQ3MmMtYWU3My1lZGM2NzFiZDFiNTEucG5nIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTc3NyIsImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTAyOSJ9XV19.8eAvlCfJ3yeLZxlGw3hHCRmc0-xIktd1RacILcFYrK0 This link is long, but I liked the animation here because Garnet’s character was such a good mix of color and freedom of design. Steven Universe is Truly one of my favorite animated shows because it just showcases so much animation and CGI freedom! If you were to come up with a gem to create, it could most likely be in the show because that’s how much freedom there was.

Prompt 1

My name is Emma. The reason I choose this course is that I have a great interest in animation. The animation was one of the factors that accompanied and influenced me growing up. I would like to know the process of transition from 2D animation to 3D animation. My major is digital marketing. My current goal is to transfer to City College after I finish my BMCC program. My future goal is to become a web designer. My favorite food is noodles. I like to assemble and play with Lego bricks and collect anime figures.