Week Report #3

Jaden McGrath      10/18/18

This week in my animation class here at BOCES, we finally started a subject I was really excited about which is animating on people. We are current working on how we can it make it look like an animated character is walking in a loop. Although it was really cool to work on, there were a few things that angered me. Those things would be working on making the legs move and coloring the character so it didn't look like parts of his body were fused together. What made me happy however was designing the facial features on my character and on the moving background objects. Now that we have started animating people, I would really like to learn how to make individual parts move like eyeballs, fingers, mouth, etc.
https://comicbook.com/horror/2018/10/17/halloween-movie-reviews/

It's been 40 years since the original Halloween film introduced the world to one of Hollywood's most famous horror movie villains, Michael Myers. Halloween would go on to spawn tons of sequels and in the early 2000's, famous heavy metal musician, Rob Zombie made his own adaptation of the Halloween story that lasted about two films into it's series. But tomorrow, audiences will be reintroduced to the Captain Kirk mask wearing murderer with Halloween (2018). Instead of this film being a reboot of the franchise like Rob Zombie's version was, instead it is making itself the official sequel to the original Halloween which came out in 1978. This means that all other sequels to the original film have now been stripped from the canon so that the only true halloween movies are Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2018). Halloween (2018) picks up 40 years after the original as Jamie Lee Curtis's character, Laurie Strode prepares herself to once again face Michael Myers after hearing of his escape from a mental ward. Critics have already given their opinion on the film saying that t is a worthy follow up that is not only on par with but could also be better than the original film. You can bet that I definitely plan to see the film once it releases tomorrow .

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