Loie Vaughn

I can’t believe Mediaworks is over (except for the screening)!  Last weekend, I reorganized my whole project, and added lots of sound effects, mostly collected from freesounds.org. During Clearing My Mind I added car, camel, chewing, popping, and ocean noises. I also re-recorded most of the ukulele and breathing sounds. I got some very helpful [...]

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It’s halfway through week nine, and a lot has been accomplished. Monday and Tuesday (the 18th and 19th of May) I finished shooting. I shot transitions, the end of the colored conscience scene,  and the end of a balanced world (the stars come out!). Thursday morning I worked in the 2D lab to export all [...]

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Well, I didn’t get all my shooting done this week as I had hoped (scheduling issues), but I did get the majority of it done. Monday I filmed the weeping shot in the “balanced world”. Tuesday I checked in with Laurie and then shot for six hours and almost finished my “distracted mind” cut-out scene. [...]

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So I’m a little late on this post- busy days… ya know.  I haven’t had much time for reading, but I have read a little of The Secret of the Golden Flower, which is the basic guide for Buddhists and Taoists. The Golden flower symbolizes the opening of the light of the mind, the release [...]

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This week I had two shoots: one on Monday night and one on Wednesday night. Monday I shot the next five seconds of my hand-drawn scene, and Wednesday I shot the first part of my first cut-out scene, moving my cut-out fragments of paper millimeters at a time across the eight and a half by [...]

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This week I have continued to read essays in existentialism. The essay I am currently reading discusses the differences between psychology and phenomenology; psychology is the study of facts about emotions and the human psyche, whereas phenomenology is the study and reflection on consciousness and the phenomena within. Phenomenology simply does not place the earthbound [...]

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To start this third week of the quarter Laurie and I had a conference on Tuesday and decided on various changes to make to my proposal packet. That afternoon I made the changes, which involved adding detailed work hours every day to my schedule, upping some of the amounts on my budget, and expanding on [...]

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This week I was very distracted by the first real spring weather (as I’m sure everyone else was) but I did manage to accomplish a fair amount. Monday I finished the rough drafts for my proposal, schedule, budget and bibliography, and Tuesday I had a Skype conference with Laurie, Belinda, Ashe, Jeremy and Taylor (the [...]

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This week I have started reading The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne to begin learning the very basics in 2D animation. To start, I am reading about production planning, necessary tools, storyboarding, basic exercises, and the history of animation. I am also beginning to lay out an intricate schedule for my spring studies, and brainstorming [...]

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