Archive for July, 2010
Problems with this non-fiction book and such
So I’m reading a book called The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. Overall, I’d say it’s a pretty good book, though sometimes a bit repetitive, as if the author just wanted to make the book longer, or make extra-sure he got his point across. The book firstly argues that “genius” and “giftedness” and “skill” are [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2010 under Non-fiction books, Stupid things.
Tags: adolescence, Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
Comments: 3
Books I done went and checked out
So yesterday I made the long journey back to George Mason University to use their library. The same girl was working there as when I worked there years ago. I’m not sure if she recognized me or not, but if she did she didn’t say anything. Then again, neither did I. Anyway, I found a [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2010 under Animation, Non-fiction books.
Tags: Acting in Animation, Animation Mentor, Autodest Maya 2010: The Modeling and Animation Handbook, Cinematography: Theory and Practice, David Mamet, Pure Animation, The Genius in All of Us, The Talent Code, Three Uses of the Knife, Timing for Animation
Comments: 2
Imagination!
Here’s some good exercise for your imagination. You can’t do it now, sitting in front of your computer or whatever. You’ll have to wait until night and you’ve been in bed for at least 10 minutes, trying to get to sleep. If your bed is next to a wall, this works better if you are [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2010 under Stupid things.
Comments: none
Animation and NurtureShock and other stuff
Animation Mentor It’s week 5 (of 72) of Animation Mentor! Things are going OK so far. I’ll upload a video of last week’s assignment later. Our assignment last week was to animate balls of different weight and bounciness. This week our assignment is to animate a ball with squash and stretch bouncing around an opsticle [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Animation, Chess, My life, Non-fiction books.
Tags: Animation Mentor, George Mason University, NurtureShock, The Lucifer Effect
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Some random things that I must say today
A few things… OK, a few things. Firstly, I finally updated my WordPress to 3.0! Woohoo! I’m all updated! Not that one can really notice from just reading the blog… Secondly, I created a new YouTube channel at youtube.com/seanhannifin to post random non-music stuff, probably mostly animation tests so that I can share my Animation Mentor progress. [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2010 under Animation, Non-fiction books.
Tags: adolescence, Animation Mentor, Ashley Merryman, NurtureShock, Po Bronson
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Geniusness and whatnot
It’s week 3 of Animation Mentor, and this week we’re learning to animate a bouncing ball. I think my bouncing ball will be so good that Pixar will want to license it for a new short film called “The Bouncing of the Ball” or something. Anyway, it’s going well; the workload isn’t overwhelming yet though [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2010 under Animation, Non-fiction books.
Tags: Animation Mentor, David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us
Comments: 2
Life is good (with Animation Mentor)
OK, this post is part just talking about Animation Mentor, and part completely me bragging about how happy and excited I am, so look away if you hate that kind of stuff, as I probably would if I weren’t me. Animation Mentor has officially begun! You can see I’ve got official badge on the side [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2010 under Animation.
Tags: Animation Mentor, Tim Crawfurd
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