Outline of the First Term Paper

Introduction:

Animated Television Series: Samurai Jack

Written and Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

4 seasons, 52 episodes, Cartoon Network

It’s a show that is highly stylized, has a lot of fight scenes, action, and drama

Body:

1-      Samurai Jack speedy movements and Jumping abilities

Jack learned from masters around the world to prepare both physically and mentally for his confrontation with Aku.

The ability to jump hundreds of feet into the air, almost giving the impression he could fly. He learned this by a species of blue gorilla and a jungle man.

His fighting skills have progressed even more, and he defeats most of his opponents using his abilities to jump high.

In one episode, Samurai Jack fights his evil self, that has the same abilities as he does, and he ends up using a different technique after failing to defeat his evil self.

2-      Samurai Jack’s Katana

It cuts through everything, including all different kinds of metal. It doesn’t seem that Samurai Jack needs to put any kind of extra force when he’s cutting through thicker robots.

The katana will only harm bad guys, when used on people who are pure at heart, it will not cut. When Aku steals his katana, he couldn’t kill Samurai Jack with it.

3-      Aku Shape Shifting

Aku uses this ability to escape being defeated by Samurai Jack. When talking, he would also shift shapes, to indicate that his mind is also changing between serious and chaotic all the time.

The amount of mass is not consistent; he seems to lose weight and gain depending on what shape he wants to take.

His origin started by a formless evil matter that ended up falling to earth. The force of impact caused all the dinosaurs to die. After the matter started growing  and destroying everything  around it, an emperor decided to kill it with a magical arrow. However the arrow gave a will and consciousness to the black matter instead.

Conclusion:

The show has a charmed lightness, with great visual components and simple story. It’s magical mood and fight choreography has created an appeal that would interest people to watch it for a long time.

 

 

Stop Motion Animation of Falling

Here's my final entry for Stop motion of falling, tried out different types of fall. I used clay for the skeleton. as for the water and the ball i used paper cutouts. It was super fun to do and I think I'll do small tests like this whenver I get the chance.

 

I did a lot of mini tests over the last week so I can get a feel for how many frames are needed to get smooth movement, also to see how the work flow goes. here's a few that I like. 

 

 

http://samsoomful.tumblr.com/post/43409403291/cat-almost-fell-ran-out-of-battery

http://samiakhalaf.blogspot.com/2013/02/stop-motion-test.html

http://samiakhalaf.blogspot.com/2013/02/stop-motion-leaf.html

stop motion leaf

did this test in the morning, just to play around with the different weight that's falling. used lettuce leaves.

Skeleton and red ball

Yaaaaay my 6th test is finished,  I think im getting the hang of this stop motion business....well kinda...
I tried doing replacement paper cut outs for the water splash and the ball bounce at the end..
this was really fun to do and my next stop motion test will be here up tomorrow, hopefully if i wake up early enough and hv time to do it.

stop motion test

Video Analysis of Path of Action

This was a cool project to try, when i was jumping i thought that i was jumping really high, but when i watched the video, my jump looks super lame.

Tracker video analysis of falling

Shooting refrence

Here's my reference video and picutres of the ball test
the rule of third is really cool and helpful in animation, i have never thought about it before, but doing this homework has helped me understand it a lot more better