REMEMBER: there are a number of ways to start the process of learning animation. One is to buy books and teach yourself. The Bible of the industry is the "Illusion of Life" by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. The information and drawings in this book make it worth the fifty dollars or more that you will pay for it. These 12 principles became the gospel according to the nine old men of animation that worked with Walt Disney in founding the industry that you see today. Don't just read it; memorize it, learn it and use it every time you draw. There is no short cut for skills and knowledge. It all starts will heart and desire; do you have it?
Example of Squash and Stretch
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
History of Animation
History of Animation Part 1
History of Animation Part 2
History of Animation Part 3
History of Animation Part 2
History of Animation Part 3
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Rules on Punctuation
I. Spacing With Punctuation Marks
Do Not Type a Space ...
following a period with an abbreviation
following a period used as a decimal point
between quotation marks and the quoted material
before or after a hyphen
before or after a slash
before or after a dash
between a number and percent sign
between parentheses and the enclosed material
between any word and the punctuation following it.
between the number and the colon used to indicate a dilute solution or ratio.
on either side of the colon when expressing the time of day
before an apostrophe
before or after a comma used within numbers
before or after an ampersand in abbreviations, e.g., C&S
on either side of the colon when expressing ratios e.g. 1:1
after the closing parenthesis if another mark of punctuation follows
Type One Space...
between words
after a comma
after a semicolon
after a period following an initial
after the closing parenthesis
on each side of the x in an expression of dimension, e.g. 4 x 4
Type Two Spaces...
after punctuation at the end of a sentence
after a colon except when expressing time or a dilution ratio
Do Not Type a Space ...
following a period with an abbreviation
following a period used as a decimal point
between quotation marks and the quoted material
before or after a hyphen
before or after a slash
before or after a dash
between a number and percent sign
between parentheses and the enclosed material
between any word and the punctuation following it.
between the number and the colon used to indicate a dilute solution or ratio.
on either side of the colon when expressing the time of day
before an apostrophe
before or after a comma used within numbers
before or after an ampersand in abbreviations, e.g., C&S
on either side of the colon when expressing ratios e.g. 1:1
after the closing parenthesis if another mark of punctuation follows
Type One Space...
between words
after a comma
after a semicolon
after a period following an initial
after the closing parenthesis
on each side of the x in an expression of dimension, e.g. 4 x 4
Type Two Spaces...
after punctuation at the end of a sentence
after a colon except when expressing time or a dilution ratio
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Remembering My Younger Days (Part 1)
When I was still an elementary student, I have never thought that I would be a teacher. What I wanted was to be a LEADER. One who governs, leads and envisions for people. In my own small way it is an ambition that I have dreamt long before.
Upon entering high school that dream never subsides yet ignited even more when I was elected and became the student council president of more than two thousand students in our campus. A young mind which was very ideal, have done things which were that time as my teachers told me “I was giving the administration a headache. My ideas for the students’ welfare were indeed at par my age and a typical teenager who should be thinking of what an average teen girl should think of.”
I remember the days when I got myself involved in an issue about a “teacher-student affair “. I did all what I can to expose that affair, wherein during that time my mind says it is an “immoral act” of a teacher. Being the student council president and an associate editor-in-chief in our school newspaper gave me enough fangs to do and exposed issues concerning welfare of the students, which I believed my constituents during that time.
As what my teacher thought of me, I will become a lawyer or even a politician. The way I talked, the way I handled things I was a little politician then. As my high school life ended, I was recognized by receiving a leadership award and was given an award from Malacañang from the late executive secretary Ruben D. Torres. I was happy that my mother received a letter from the office of the executive secretary stating that I was the one chosen among all the students in my school.
Upon entering college and passing the entrance college exam in one of top university in the country-the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, it was a new environment. I was supposed to enroll in a political science course, but for unexpected reasons, I didn’t have the chance to enroll in that course. One of reason perhaps is the university was too big for me. It was the first time I went to a huge campus and I was really amazed how big it was for me, getting lost and not knowing where to go first, I went and enrolled at a different college. I took a course, which I never thought I would go into, teaching. My registration card was stamped and marked as a BBTE enrolled student: Bachelor in Business Teacher Education.
During my first year, my mind was set to study hard and shift to another course on the following school year. Though the university was so big and our own college was with hundreds of students, it was not a difficult thing for me to surface. As a first year college student, I was elected and become a college councilor. Election was different in PUP, it was just like a national election, real ballot boxes, an actual filing from the legal office, and it was like a mock election of a national presidency campaign. It was another opportunity for me when the university sent me to be one of the seven delegates to represent the institution in an international conference which was held at the University of Asia and the Pacific. It was the first time, when I first realized that what I want before was indeed just a dream for me. Meeting ‘rich kids’ gave me an embarrassing moment, but that was just for a short while and getting back my composure at least gave me strength to talk even at least once in the plenary session. Even though it happened only once, I still tried. Well, not all was able to attempt to butt-in and cut the monopoly of this rich kids talking at the plenary session. Again, I took that as a wonderful experience and a pride as well.
After that first rough year in college, my attempt to shift course never took place. Again, I realized that it will be unwise to throw a year I already spent and worked for. Besides, my father was a construction worker and my mother was with her unauthorized betting game ‘juetteng’ business. How can I then manage to tell them that I really don’t like the course and I want to go to another college course? I couldn’t say it to them, what they know was they just have to wait three more years and they will have their first child who graduated in college.
Though I was still in doubt whether to continue to study and pursue a teaching profession, I was left no choice; my parents are really trying what they can to help me finish my course. By this time things tightened up more, soon my sister joined me in the university as she passed the college entrance test. Now, two of us were in college and my parents’ resources were really limited. It was another realization for me that it will really be impossible to pursue that political science course. I said to myself, finish education and once I have my job, I’ll have second degree and finance my own studies.
The second year was even harder than the previous, more than ten of my classmates dropped out – like the reason of many it was financial. I have learned to survive using my leadership skills, group activities and projects require a leader and that is where I am good at. They took me as their leader and that help me manage to settle my school projects. Some of my classmates managed to buy all the reference books we used and so it was an opportunity for me. If I still remember, I can only manage to buy at least two books out of eight books we used every semester. As I entered the varsity team in Arnis, I was able to get a scholarship. At least the money that supposedly for my tuition was allotted to some of the things I need in school, indeed it helped me for a while.
My junior years in college was another stage of my life, I got exhausted from my academic life and tried a new one – getting into activism. It was all of disappointments, after having been found that I will be eliminated from the cum laude list, I got cynical. My academic mind then turned into a socio-political mind. I started attending lectures and conferences involving students’ rights and welfare and all issues which may directly and indirectly affect the students. From issues of tuition hikes to issues of oil price hikes, I even got involved in issues of our farmers and rural workers. I remember when I first joined a hunger strike at the Department of Agrarian Reform in sympathy to our farmers clamor. I have to accept, it was exciting and I may say an adventure for me, running around with cops while carrying flags and banners, shouting at Mendiola – it was an ecstasy turned idealism.
My mother’s heart was griping when she found out of my whereabouts. Staying outside the house for more than a month not telling where I am, I showed my face off and then leave at once. One thing I promised her, I will finish my study and help my other siblings.
Many things happened during my last year in college, it even reached to the point of a ‘do or die game’ for me but after all I managed to survive. At least I graduated as expected but with an extra baggage, I was five months pregnant during my graduation march!
Upon entering high school that dream never subsides yet ignited even more when I was elected and became the student council president of more than two thousand students in our campus. A young mind which was very ideal, have done things which were that time as my teachers told me “I was giving the administration a headache. My ideas for the students’ welfare were indeed at par my age and a typical teenager who should be thinking of what an average teen girl should think of.”
I remember the days when I got myself involved in an issue about a “teacher-student affair “. I did all what I can to expose that affair, wherein during that time my mind says it is an “immoral act” of a teacher. Being the student council president and an associate editor-in-chief in our school newspaper gave me enough fangs to do and exposed issues concerning welfare of the students, which I believed my constituents during that time.
As what my teacher thought of me, I will become a lawyer or even a politician. The way I talked, the way I handled things I was a little politician then. As my high school life ended, I was recognized by receiving a leadership award and was given an award from Malacañang from the late executive secretary Ruben D. Torres. I was happy that my mother received a letter from the office of the executive secretary stating that I was the one chosen among all the students in my school.
Upon entering college and passing the entrance college exam in one of top university in the country-the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, it was a new environment. I was supposed to enroll in a political science course, but for unexpected reasons, I didn’t have the chance to enroll in that course. One of reason perhaps is the university was too big for me. It was the first time I went to a huge campus and I was really amazed how big it was for me, getting lost and not knowing where to go first, I went and enrolled at a different college. I took a course, which I never thought I would go into, teaching. My registration card was stamped and marked as a BBTE enrolled student: Bachelor in Business Teacher Education.
During my first year, my mind was set to study hard and shift to another course on the following school year. Though the university was so big and our own college was with hundreds of students, it was not a difficult thing for me to surface. As a first year college student, I was elected and become a college councilor. Election was different in PUP, it was just like a national election, real ballot boxes, an actual filing from the legal office, and it was like a mock election of a national presidency campaign. It was another opportunity for me when the university sent me to be one of the seven delegates to represent the institution in an international conference which was held at the University of Asia and the Pacific. It was the first time, when I first realized that what I want before was indeed just a dream for me. Meeting ‘rich kids’ gave me an embarrassing moment, but that was just for a short while and getting back my composure at least gave me strength to talk even at least once in the plenary session. Even though it happened only once, I still tried. Well, not all was able to attempt to butt-in and cut the monopoly of this rich kids talking at the plenary session. Again, I took that as a wonderful experience and a pride as well.
After that first rough year in college, my attempt to shift course never took place. Again, I realized that it will be unwise to throw a year I already spent and worked for. Besides, my father was a construction worker and my mother was with her unauthorized betting game ‘juetteng’ business. How can I then manage to tell them that I really don’t like the course and I want to go to another college course? I couldn’t say it to them, what they know was they just have to wait three more years and they will have their first child who graduated in college.
Though I was still in doubt whether to continue to study and pursue a teaching profession, I was left no choice; my parents are really trying what they can to help me finish my course. By this time things tightened up more, soon my sister joined me in the university as she passed the college entrance test. Now, two of us were in college and my parents’ resources were really limited. It was another realization for me that it will really be impossible to pursue that political science course. I said to myself, finish education and once I have my job, I’ll have second degree and finance my own studies.
The second year was even harder than the previous, more than ten of my classmates dropped out – like the reason of many it was financial. I have learned to survive using my leadership skills, group activities and projects require a leader and that is where I am good at. They took me as their leader and that help me manage to settle my school projects. Some of my classmates managed to buy all the reference books we used and so it was an opportunity for me. If I still remember, I can only manage to buy at least two books out of eight books we used every semester. As I entered the varsity team in Arnis, I was able to get a scholarship. At least the money that supposedly for my tuition was allotted to some of the things I need in school, indeed it helped me for a while.
My junior years in college was another stage of my life, I got exhausted from my academic life and tried a new one – getting into activism. It was all of disappointments, after having been found that I will be eliminated from the cum laude list, I got cynical. My academic mind then turned into a socio-political mind. I started attending lectures and conferences involving students’ rights and welfare and all issues which may directly and indirectly affect the students. From issues of tuition hikes to issues of oil price hikes, I even got involved in issues of our farmers and rural workers. I remember when I first joined a hunger strike at the Department of Agrarian Reform in sympathy to our farmers clamor. I have to accept, it was exciting and I may say an adventure for me, running around with cops while carrying flags and banners, shouting at Mendiola – it was an ecstasy turned idealism.
My mother’s heart was griping when she found out of my whereabouts. Staying outside the house for more than a month not telling where I am, I showed my face off and then leave at once. One thing I promised her, I will finish my study and help my other siblings.
Many things happened during my last year in college, it even reached to the point of a ‘do or die game’ for me but after all I managed to survive. At least I graduated as expected but with an extra baggage, I was five months pregnant during my graduation march!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
An Authentic Happiness
Im just like any typical working mom...a teacher by profession. I'll be leaving at 6:30am and will finish work around 5pm. After work as a teacher, have to perform the task of being a mom. Honestly, its even more difficult to think of what would be tonight's dinner than tomorrow's lesson in my class. I have to think of a way how to cook what's left on the refrigerator, following a #1 rule: My Kids should like it and EAT it! Oops, fish..fish..fish..its all what I got. Well, not bad, since I have white meat fish: A salmon and tuna belly slices. Now, next task is to look over what ingredients do I still have--curry powder, some spices, beans, chinese kangkong, and the rest can be used on the next meal. I took the tuna belly, cut it into squares, mix it with grated ginger and some spices. I really have to lessen that fish odor. Sliced the beans into halves and the chinese kangkong. I tried to sauté the fish and put a little water, then add the curry mix with a small amount of flour, put the vegetables, put season to taste and dinner is ready!.
Next task, my boys have to it eat. I usually have troubles with them, two of them don't eat fish at all. So? what should I do, a caring mom would say: 'boys let's it" and I called my 5-year old son, who happen to be my youngest. Surprisingly, they like it! I was able to ask them eat fish and vegetables, except for my youngest. Until now, his appreciation of eating vegetables are not yet in his mind. Well, at least he ate the fish and that would be good for now.
Seeing them full and satisfied on the food I prepared was indeed a fulfillment. The joy brought by this event was really unimaginable. Of course, I was happy when I finished my masters study and now trying to work on my dissertation but what feelings I have for this simple occurrence delighted me more! After a tiring day, seeing them happy and contended will put me into bed and with a smile in my face..
Thursday, February 10, 2011
AJIA Barn Dance
AJIA's first barn dance is another event, another happy memories that our students will definitely cherish for the rest of their lives...an occurrence
What is barn dance anyway? Well for those who are not familiar or new on this term, barn dance actually is any kind of dance held in a barn. It usually involves traditional or folk music with traditional dancing. It is a type of dance, originating in America and popular in Britain in the late 19th century until early 20th.
So, this year Angel John Integrated Academy will be holding its first barn dance event. Highlights of this event are the performances of the high school students - their "Square Dance" and their "Social Dance Competition."
Here is a preview of their practice...
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