I am running on a Core m3 processor which should be fine for maya... but maya is moody and it wants to crash and not import my image.
Therefore, I will be taking a picture of some cans... but also you moved your imagine of 6029 (for next semester you might want to be aware of that.
so I am using img_6028 because I have already wasted 2 hours playing around with this stuff.
replication with cranberry sauce
45 degrees to the left
Someone in my house ran through the room and ripped down all my lamps breaking them all right as I was going to take the first picture. I could not have any more patients with this project from top to bottom. Goodluck on winter holiday!
In this assignment you will create a simple stop-motion animation of a moving character. For your character, use a doll or stuffed animal that's easily poseable; a clay model would also work well.
I don't have any knickknacks or dolls because I'm grown, so thanks to my little brother I had some of his favorite characters be a part of a Harlem shake dance party which quickly turned into a fight. For the most part I just put wedges to prop the bigger characters and I moved the limbs of the rest to fit a Harlem shake/fight party. The whole thing was 127 frames. You can see some fishing string I used for a few jumps. I think clay or other characters would have been much easier to manipulate, but like I said I don't keep kids things and all I have is a little brother to provide me with toys. Next time I'm buying some play-doe.
And to address the believability, please consider the characters jumping (halo dudes) and the lazy ones just rocking (pandas!), and we all know pirates breakdance.
I will be comparing the visual effects of Surf's Up (2007) and the wave scene from the new Point Break (2015). Where I feel both films were successful in recreating the waves, granted I don't believe some of the movements the surfers did were completely honest.
Surf's Up
This wave was completely designed and developed by the creator
help in where the wave would naturally pinch and speed up was advised by Kelly Slater, the best surfer who has every lived.
Kelly has 11 world titles to say he is the best surfer
he has recreated one of the best artificial waves the world has seen.
below I have a video of one of the shots
they detailed everything from the lighting and refraction to the water drops and scratches on the lens.
the speed the camera is at is also a common speed water cinematographers film in.
Point Break
the first Point Break movie was obviously fake, they didn't have the proper cameras to really get into surf cinematography.
in one scene 10 dudes come up behind Johnny Utah on a wave, which is impossible because you are given the energy and speed from the wave.
with the new Point Break, they had 3 of the best surfers who have surfed Teahupoo which is the location in Tahiti that they filmed at.
even with some of the best surfers to get footage of the spot I don't believe 2 people would take off on the same wave.
the reef at Teahupoo is roughly 1/3 the height of the wave below the water.
so at 20 feet there is only 6 maybe 7 feet of water
I have seen so many professional come out of the water with holes in their bodies from hitting the reef.
below the first video is the movie, the second video is the scariest thing I have seen in my life, real footage from a huge day a few years ago at Teahupoo (turn up the volume and feel small).
Conclusion
using professionals from the industry can give you the best results for a film.
even somethings that seem impossible can be real, like the wave at Teahupoo.
any of the waves in these videos will kill a normal person who is not an expert in the ocean, given how shallow the reef is to give the lip of the waves.
However, both films were successful given the teams they assembled to recreate the surfer's success.
Psychological Priming is a survival technic humans use daily, its a way of setting our mind to the exposure of one stimulus so that we can better respond to other stimulus. Hollywood has played on this survival technic, when we walk into the theater, we are not priming for accurate physical principals, we are primed to be entertained. Even if you were a hero and a writer reproduced your story, you will be made a legend from the making of that movie, because reality is harsh and boring, super powers are more fun (and highly inaccurate). However, an important component of being an educated adult is the ability to differentiate fact from fiction, even if you like to indulge fiction. I will be exposing violations in Newton's Third Law of Motion from Django Unchained, The Simpsons, and Monty Python's the Holy Grail. Showing that for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action, the equal and opposite re-action will be my focus. Seeing how some of our favorite effects revolve around what should be a relatively small force being distorted and ignored to apply an astronomical force to make a hero.
For my first example, I will use my favorite writer/director Quentin Jerome Tarantino, the universe that he writes in is so thoughtful and relative. As he offers countless movies where every reaction is not properly represented by the original action, I have decided to focus on Django Unchained (2012). In the movie a German bounty hunter helps a freed slave rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. In the first clip Dr. Schultz is blown away (0:46) by the force of the double-barrel 12 gauge shot gun. Where this force is the same on the shoulder of the shooter as it is in Dr. Schultz chest. What we should expect is the consistency of the watermelons in FPS Russians YouTube video (below), FPS has a lot of other effects due to the chemicals he introduced inside of the melons to create a fire. Also, we can pay attention to the back fence and compare it to the book shelf explosion. The book shelf implied that the shotgun was a "sawed off shotgun" given that the spread of the bullets incorporated such a large area in such close quarters. This actually takes force away from what should have happened to poor Dr. Schultz, with less accelerated mass hitting him, he probably should have just fallen onto his face rather then being lunched backwards. Instead Quentin made Dr. Schultz looking like an acetylene barrel. However, fallowing this second shot, all other shots were fairly accurate given the rounds of the guns.
For my second example, lets take a completely different type of entertainment that distorts Newton's Third Law. Lets look at an episode of The Simpsons created by James Brooks, Matt Groening and Sam Simon. In this episode they do a spoof on Lord of the Rings which involves a major fight scene where a castle is to be raided by the American Shipping Service because Bart unlawfully got free boxes from them, and they want them back. As soon as I started looking through the episode, it is riddled with incorrect outcomes given the recipes to each scene. I am avoiding all other inaccuracies and focusing on (3:39) Bart put a square brick in a round cardboard tube. Clearly the fit is not air tight, if the pressure was enough to blow the brick the strength of the cardboard would not be enough. The brick lands and hits a American Shipping Serviceman in the chest and he is forced to the ground given the impact. From that we have to make two assumptions to enjoy the show. First, that Bart can blow a brick with a breadth of air. Second, that Bart's one breadth of air can knock a man over with an exponential force. These two assumptions clearly break the 3rd law, because a 160lb man can not be blown over by a boy, where a man's lung capacity is 6 Liters, so Bart might have 2.5 L given his ration to Homer. The effect of a grown man (6 liters of air) blowing on a candle can be shown by Jack Black in the video below, at a much farther distance Bart's effect would be even less then that of Jack Black's.
My third and final example comes from the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) written by Graham Chapman. If you have ever seen the movie you will know that, its such a ridiculous movie, although I find it extremely hilarious. As the king of the Brits goes around asking for direction to find the Holy Grail, he comes across a castle filled with Frenchmen in England. When asked why the Frenchmen are in Britain, the Brits are quickly told to mind their own business and that is where the Brits are unwelcomed. As the Frenchmen provokes them, he ends up throwing a Cow over the wall. Not just from the height of the wall but it is launched hundreds of feet in the air. Other cows and farm yard animals are thrown from the walls of the castle, one lands on one of the knights and the knight gets up and runs away. If the forces from the cow coming off the wall was applied to a human they would be smashed. In other words the man should be just as dead as the cow at the end of the scene given that Newton's Third Law stands correct. Actually, he should be more smashed then the cow given their masses.
To conclude, we are primed to be entertained when we start a movie or a TV show, and with that we are ready to accept the fiction that comes along with it. Heroes aren't enough for a story line, what we want to see are legends and the writer will make legends, no matter how inaccurate super powers are. Nonetheless, an important element of being a well-educated adult is the ability to differentiate fact from fiction. I was able to show the violations in Newton's Third Law of Motion from Django Unchained, The Simpsons, and Monty Python's the Holy Grail. Showing that for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action that is broken. Quite simply if real life was accurately reproduced by the media, no one would feel the need to partake in the entertainment industry, because it wouldn't be any different from the monotonous agenda many people live. Entertainment needs to break the intuitive laws our universe gives. Breaking these laws gives us a false sense of freedom, in which we all love to dream.
Thesis: I will be exposing violations in Newton's Third Law of Motion from Django Unchained, the Simpsons, and Monty Python the Holy Grail. Showing that for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action, the equal and opposite re-action will be my focus.
Body Paragraphs
1. Django Unchained: Double-barrel 12 gauge shotgun on Dr. Schultz
In the first clip Dr. Schultz is blown away (0:46) the force of the double-barrel 12 gauge shot gun is the same on the shoulder of the shooter as it is in Dr. Schultz chest.
What we should expect is the consistency of the watermelons in FPS Russians youtube video plus a lot of other effects given a change in chemistry.
the back fence did not go up like the book shelf explosion.
instead of Dr. Schultz looking like an acetylene barrel.
all other shots were fairly accurate given the rounds of the guns.
2. Simpsons Lord of the Rings spoof
avoiding all other inaccuracies and focusing on (3:39) in the clip shows Bart putting a square brick in a round cardboard tube. Clearly the fit is not air tight.
the brick land and hits a American Shipping Serviceman in the chest and is forced to the ground.
we have to make 2 assumptions to enjoy the show
1. Bart can blow a brick with a breadth of air.
2. Bart's breadth of air can knock a man over.
These clearly break the 3rd law, because a 160lb man can not be blown over by a boy (where a mans lung capacity is 6 Liters, so Bart might have 2.5 given his ration to Homer).
the effect of a grown man (6 liters of air) blowing on a candle can be shown by Jack Black in the next video, the effect Bart would have at a much farther distance would be even less.
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
As the king of the Brits goes around asking for direction on the Holy Grail, he comes across a castle filled with Frenchmen in England.
As the Frenchmen provokes them, he ends up throwing a Cow over the wall.
There are cows and other farm yard animals thrown from the walls of the castle, one lands on one of the knights and the knight gets up and runs away.
if the forces from the cow coming off the wall was applied to a human they would be smashed.
the man would be just as dead as the cow.
Conclusion
Physical laws are intentionally broken throughout the film whenever more dramatization is wanted.
the Third law states for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action, the equal and opposite re-action while these three examples show the Director alters this law for effect.
