Senior Project Test 2: Motion

Again, it's not much. I wasn't exactly going for qaulity when I was making this. I was just testing movement. I'm very curious as to how it works. I'll look at animated movies such as Disney and Dreamworks and say to myself, "How on Earth do they make those characters move so fluently?" Even in Wreck it Ralph the game characters move as they would in their game. It boggles the mind. This took me several days only becuase I wasn't working on it the entire time and I would have finished it earlier, but I got caught up in other school work. Anyway, I'm sorry if it looks like crap, but the next thing I'll work on will look better than this. I think the next thing I'll move onto next will be movement AND audio. I'll spice it up somehow. Okay, until next time! :)

Brave New World (Ch. 7-10)

Chapter 7:

- Lenina comments that the channel over Malpais is queer. She immediately has distaste for the reservation.
- Lenina complains practically the entire time they are walking through. "I don't like it." Repeated many times by her.
- Indians walk around carrying snakes. Bernard points out to Lenina that they aren't as civilized as they are.
- Lenina sees a scraggly old Indian and is convinced there is something wrong with him by his appearance. Their civilization stay young and healthy, not letting them look as old as the Indian.
- Lenina has no soma and is rather upset about it all.
- Lenina is comforted by the sound of the drums. It reminded her of the "Orgy-porgy" back at home.
- They witness a young adult (18) being whipped harshly while walking around a writhing heap of snakes. Lenina is horrified by the sight. Boy drops dead after walking around six times.
- Pale boy is introduced who lives on the reservation. He is upset that they didn't pick him to be a sacrifice. They dislike him for his complexion.
- Bernard is shocked that a white person lives here. The boy is amazed at the sight of Lenina.
- Boy takes them to his mom's house. The woman looks hideous and very bloated.
- The woman (Linda) is excited to see others from the outside. She hugs Lenina, who is disgusted.
- Linda turns out to be the girl that the Director was with on the reservation all those years ago.
- The boy (John) is her and the Director's son.

Chapter 8:

- While Lenina and Linda talk inside, Bernard and John discuss John's childhood outside.
- Childhood is rather traumatic. Linda was hit on by many men in the reservation. One of them broke her hand and she took something that's similar to soma called mescal.
- Linda was whipped by woman who were furious that Linda were having their men, which is very different than her culture. John tried to protect her and they whipped him as well.
- Linda then begins to blame John for everything that has happened to her. Then she apologizes.
- The other children will not play with John because they know that his mom is a disgrace.
- Linda eventually teaches John how to read. He's smart and catches on quick. He starts reading Shakespeare, but his unfamiliar with the wording.
- Indian named Pope keeps on giving Linda mescal or "drugs" as John likes to put it. He HATES Pope and all the other men who see her.
- His hate rises and one night John stabs Pope, which wakes up Linda and she starts screaming at the sight of all the blood. Pope stops John by twisting his arm.
- At fifteen, Mitsima teaches John how to work clay and mold/shape it.
- John was in love with Kiakime, but she married Kothlu and it upset John who was sixteen.
- Boys would go down to the kiva (Antelope Kiva) and come out as men.
-John wanted to go with them, but they shunned him for his complexion and his ungrateful mother. They threw stones at him and he fled.
- Bernard tells John that he, too, is always alone. They share similarities.
- John told Bernard he once spread out like Christ did on the cross to know what it felt like being crucified.
- Bernard suggested that John go to London with them. John is exstatic and Linda will join them too.
- Bernard mentions a Miranda. Who is Miranda? Note to self to keep an eye out for a Miranda...

Chapter 9:

- They went back to the rest house where Lenina immediately takes soma and drifts off.
- Lenina has gone to a soma- holiday, which left Bernard to go speak to Mustapha Mond about bringing John and Linda.
- Mustapha agrees as he finds it of sufficient scientific interest. He sends Bernard to the Warden.
- Once everything was settled and agreed upon, Bernard rushes back to where the rest house was.
- Meanwhile, John calls for them outside the rest house and realizes that they had left without him.
- Devastated, he cries, but then checks the window and sees that they hadn't left. He breaks in and begins to familiarize himself with Lenina's clothing, breathing in her scent.
- He finds her resting on a bed in her room and sees how beautiful she is.
- When fantasizing about her, he notices a plane arriving as he looks out the window and happily went to go see Bernard stepping out of the helicopter.

Chapter 10:

- Within the bowels of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, the Director waits in the playroom of children for someone.
- Bernard enters the room to go see the Director.
- The Director Hesse's like a snake at the word "yes", which is hilarious and portrays a malicious side.
- The Director then announces to the entire room that Bernard has betrayed his society by not contributing to traditional activities, drinking soma, refusal to obey the teaching of Ford, etc.
- Director makes the sign of "T". Once again this comes up. Interesting.
- Director believes Bernard should be banished to Iceland and he asks for Bernard to give him a reason why he shouldn't be given his punishment.
- Bernard, the sly dog, brings in Linda. Crowd gasps and screams at the sight of her.
- Linda starts to try and get the Director to remember her and she hugs him.
- The Director is appalled and keeps saying, "What is the meaning of this monstrous joke?"
- Linda calls John in and John collapses in front of the Director shouting out, "My father!"
- During this entire ordeal, the crowd laughs uncontrollably at this show of affection.
- "Pale, wild-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation." The Director covers his ears and runs out of the room to get away from it all.

Brave New World (Ch. 4-6)

Chapter 4: (Part 1)

- Lenina speaks with Bernard about their trip to New Mexico.
- Bernard is flushed and automatically appears different than the others when speaking openly about private topics.
- Pg 59 Restatement: "Roof!" Emphasizing the freedom an Epsilon felt when on the roof.
-Voice telling the Epsilon to "go down, go down"...
- Gathered that Lenina has been owned by nearly every alpha male.
- Benito Hoover introduced and notices Bernard's gloomy disposition. Offers the drug: soma to which Bernard refuses.
-  Oh my. Sexual innuendos. Lenina plays Obstacle Golf with Henry Foster.

(Part 2)

- Benito Hoover (as well as others) have made Bernard feel more miserable and much like an outcast.
- The feeling has made him bitter. He is also does not physically look like an alpha. Shorter and slender in proportion.
- Rumor going around that the alcohol in his blood-surrogate is of truth.
- Bernard visits his friend Mr. Helmholtz Watson.
- Helmholtz also has similar defective traits like Bernard. He is quite the ladies man, though.
- Helmholtz has a knowledge of individuality and wishes Bernard would show more pride as he opens himself up to Bernard as Bernard does to him.

Chapter 5: (Part 1)

- When Lenina and Henry go to golf, Henry indulges Lenina with information on chemicals and whatnot.
-Lenina remembers waking up as a little girl and becoming aware of the whispers that haunted her.
- Many of the characters (especially Lenina) quote what is often repeated in their heads. "Every one works for every one else."
- Dead bodies are used to make plants grow. (Fun fact!)
-  They go to Henry's apartment and take soma.
- They go out dancing. Four hundred couples. Damn.

(Part 2)

- Flying cars. Figures. Advanced technology for the win.
- Repeating word "Ford" on Ford's Day.
- Bernard goes to a meeting for those with similar problems. (Like an AA meeting)
- Sign of the T referring to that of the T-Model? Connections with Ford.
- Soma known as "loving cup". Group takes it and begins a hymn.
- Everyone in a sort of dazed stupor, but instead of hearing for "Him" like the others, Bernard only notices the small details of Morgana's eyebrows.
- "Orgy Porgy" is a chant they say.
- Bernard felt even more isolated and miserable for having faked his feeling of "His" arrival.

Chapter 6: (Part 1)

- Lenina's word for Bernard "odd". She contemplates whether to go with Bernard to New Mexico or to the North Pole with Benito Hoover.
- She remembered the time when her and Bernard went out for the first time.
- Bernard is completely out of the norm when conversing with Lenina. He would rather take refuge away from the crowd to get closer to her rather than mingle.
- Bernard watching the sea very calmly while Lenina thinks it's horrible.
- Bernard talks to Lenina about being free and Lenina is all, "You're acting crazy."
- Lenina persuades Bernard to take four somas.
- Bernard is just dead inside after they part from spending time together.

(Part 2)

- Bernard goes to the Director so as to get a paper signed to go see the New Mexico Reservation.
- Director suddenly talks about how a while ago he went to the reservation with a girl he was with and she was lost for good at the reservation.
- Bernard seemed almost jealous that the Director went on an adventure at the reservation.
- The Director suddenly becomes angry that he was caught explaining his awful experience and threatens to send Bernard to Iceland.
- Bernard's spirits are lifted and goes off to tell Helmholtz, who awkwardly says nothing back. Yeah.

(Part 3)

- Bernard and Lenina arrive at the reservation.
- Warden is introduced. He is loud, moon faced, and talks a LOT.
- He talks about the savages and the fence of death. Etc. Lenina, "You don't say!" Entire time.
- Bernard freaks out when he realizes that he's going to be sent to Iceland.
- Bernard ends up taking some soma, which calms him down and he starts to laugh at dumb jokes.
- "Savages won't do you any harm. They've got enough experience of gas bombs to know they mustn't play any tricks." What does Bernard mean by that? Huh...

Brave New World Notes ( Ch. 1-3)

Chapter 1:

- Setting takes place in a building labeled: CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE.
- pg 3: Metaphor: "Some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh."
- pg 3: Simile: "Lying along the polished tubes like butter."
- pg 3: Personification: "The light was frozen, dead, a ghost."
- pg 4: Colloquialism: "Straight from the horse's mouth."
- Year: A.F. 632
- Usage of italics to emphasize the importance of the text whenever a student writes it down.
- They describe Bokanovsky's Process (bokanovskification)
- "Community, Identity, Stability."
- pg 8: Mr. Foster is introduced. The Director uses him to teach about the embryo and stages for producing identical twins.
- pg 9: Onomatopoeia: Whizz, click!
-"Embryos are like photograph film. They can only stand red light." -Simile
-They cut short oxygen to an embryo who are in lower classes.
- pg 16: Lenina is introduced. She knows Mr. Foster (Henry) very well.
- Predetermining behavior using temperature conditioning (rotation)

Chapter 2:

- In a different section of the building now. INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS.
- Nurses put out bowls roses and books on the floor.
- pg 19: metaphors/similies: Describing the roses to that of cherubs, etc.
- Delta-caste babies put down in front of roses and books. They begin to play with the items but then after a minute, a blaring noise sounded and the floor becomes electrified, traumatizing the babies.
- This trains them to hate nature as well as despise books. Productivity in factories are in favor.
- The Director and the students talk about parenting as well as family qualities. They are all negative aspects towards the subject.
- Hypnopaedia: sleep teaching method. First used in A.F 214. Teaches children to learn through repetitive talk,  only knowing what was spoken softly in their ears repeatedly.
- There is a high respect for Alphas and shun the lower castes.
- Henry Ford is a very important idol. Allusions towards the car company Ford. T-Model was said.
- Teachings from Elementary Sex to Elementary Class Consciousness. Keep note of that.

Chapter 3:

-Young and happy children playing in a garden naked. Game is called Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy.
-Director very much likes to repeat the word "charming". Interesting.
-The children engage in an erotic form of play, which is of the norm.
-Introduction to Controller  Mustapha Mond, head honcho.
-Controller commenting that "history is bunk". Their Fordship.
-Talk about families and the fact that they can't even imagine what it would be like to have a family.
-Three conversations go on near the end of the chapter, skipping around in a montage of dialect.
-Conversations: Lenina/Fanny, Bernard/his thoughts, Controller and students.
-Bernard in his own little conflict with himself and Lenina. Their feelings are jumbled.
-The structure has changed from lengthy paragraphs to short and choppy sentences throughout dialect.
-"Suffer little children." Allusion towards Jesus(?). Has different meanings.

Senior Project Test 1: Lip Sync

Ta-Daaaa!! Alright, so it's not the most incredible thing you've ever seen. In fact, it doesn't look like much. This took me about three hours to make. A five second video took THREE HOURS. So imagine a three to five minute video. Must take a long time. Getting to know my CS6 program is like trying to deactivate a bomb. It's complex and takes a lot of time trying to learn all the key components. This would have taken less time if I had known everything I needed to know. This is my first test run. For now on, I'm going to create short videos demonstrating movement, sound, lip sync, background, combinations of all of them, etc. Remember, animating something takes a long time, so don't expect me to come up with a full episode of Spongebob or something like that. I'm going to do my best, though. Also, sorry if the audio sounds like crap. I realize now that I'm not the best voice actor. That's why I'm collaborating with those who want to voice act, suggest ideas for a cartoon, and script writing. I also want to apologize for not posting anything in a long time. I'm very behind. I'm gunna try and catch up. :) Hope you enjoyed this!