Open Blog (Week 7)

Okay, so there's no topic for this week, which leaves this blog wide open for some ideas and discussion. Although I'd like to thank Lori for that extra hour of sleep! :) - You wouldn't believe how much easier to commute for a 10am lecture than for a 9am lecture.

Anyways, back on topic. We had a guest lecturer this week and we were talking about animations. Very interesting how some of these animations come about and people don't realize the little things, such as opening credits of a movie. We say "That's cool. Although I'm just here to watch the movie." It looks like it takes a lot of work, and is unappreciated and doesn't get the same attention as the actual movie would.

Well, maybe except the James Bond ones. Those have been evolving for a long time now, it's almost like tradition to have animated opening credits to a 007 movie.

It's must have been a real hassle to be drawing animations by hand before modern technology took over. Although, it still is a lot of work for animators to create animations using tools such as Flash. The countless hours that is put into animations is remarkable and really has me appreciating those individuals a lot more than before. All we see is a simple animation, and what they see is a bunch of complex code.