Beauty and the Beast

Finally got to see Beauty and the Beast on Monday! Honestly, I really enjoyed it. There were some things that I felt skeptical about, but that's only because I love the animated version way too much. I did enjoy the new songs that were played, especially "Evermore"—I guess you can say that is my new favorite song at the moment lol. After watching it, I was inspired to do a drawing I've been wanting to do for about four years now.

“why is it always the woman who has to see past the beast in the man? why does she always have to clean his wounds, even after he has damaged her beyond repair? why is it always the man who is worthy of forgiveness for being a monster?
I want to see the beast in the beauty.
the half smile, half snarl. the unapologetic anger. I would like to see the man forgive the monster. to see her, blood and all, and love her anyway.”
—Caitlyn Siehl

my new favorite song

According to iTunes, I've been listening to Royal Teeth's cover of "Heartbeats" 256 times. The first time I've heard of Royal Teeth was when they were opening for Rooney with Swimm on December 13th, 2016. Since then, I haven't stopped listening to this song. I also loved their EP album cover that I wanted to do some animation to it—a simple animation that illustrates the complications within a relationship as the girl keeps hiding from the guy whenever he comes into view.

If you want to listen to the song, this is them live!

Happy Tsum Tsum Tuesday!

Last week for my Physics of Animation class, I had to create a stop motion animation of an object falling. I knew I wanted to use one of my Tsum Tsums and I was inspired by The Lion King Tsum Tsum edition as I was reminded with one of the most painful memories of my childhood—Mufasa's death.

 

The first video shows a believable fall of the Mufasa Tsum Tsum falling, including him landing to his death. The second video was just for funsies, where I reenact the scene of Mufasa's death. To accomplish these, I would drop the Mufasa Tsum Tsum to see its path of action for reference. I would also re-watch the scene of how Mufasa falls in the movie. After watching the scene a couple of times, I noticed how Scar flings Mufasa off to his death, giving him a tipping motion. For each frame, I took a picture after the other. I first taped the Mufasa Tsum Tsum to the rock, and after having the Scar Tsum Tsum push him off, I taped it to a sharpening stick to create the falling motion. I used Adobe Photoshop to edit the stick and myself out of the frame. After I was done editing, I imported all the photos to Adobe Premiere to create the animation video.

My neck started hurting from editing the pictures and putting the video together, but it was so much fun!!! My professor in the class also mentioned how he was having a guest judge to look at our animation, where the top 3 would get bonus points in the class. Yesterday, my professor finally revealed this mysterious guest judge, and it was Jay Hasrajani—the current animator and storyboard artist on Cartoon Network's show, The Powerpuff Girls! Not only did that surprise me, but I was part of his top 3!! I am very thankful and praise God for this privilege to have an industry professional look at my work as well as getting feedback from them. Here's some words from Mr. Hasrajani that I just wanted to share for anyone in the design/art industry:

"When you enter the real world (and out of the SJSU bubble we form), you will have to push your efforts to the limits - no matter how small the job/task is. The industry is tough and you have to be someone people can depend on for stellar work!"

I also have a blog for this class if you wanna see more things we've done!

sarahinphys123.blogspot.com/