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GUESS WHAT. I’M DONE WITH THIS SEMESTER YAAAAAY! FREEDOM!

Anywho’s, done for class. A showreel of my videos so far (2013-2014). Sooo yeaaa, if you’re interested to see random bits of what I’ve been busy with, I guess go check it out. :D

Dun mind the NBC Hannibal clips. It was for a commercial video assignment thingy.

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Favourite animators/production designers: Gekidan Inu Curry (劇団イヌカレー)

Learn/watch more:

Gekidan Inu Curry are an animation troupe famous for their designs of the witches and the witches’ otherworld in Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica. Their techniques draw inspiration from Russian animation and Czech animation. They utilize stop-motion animation and coloring that resembles hand-drawn illustrations.

Their pen names are 2shiroinu (2白犬) and Doroinu (泥犬). 2shiroinu, or Ayumi Shiraishi (白石 亜由美), is a former Gainax animator. Doroinu, or Yousuke Anai, worked at Tanto Do-GA Studio. (source)

NND video of openings, endings and music videos made by Gekidan Inu Curry

tumblr blog dedicated to Gekidan Inu Curry

Japanese wikipedia + sakuga wiki

Don’t forget to click the gifs for the titles!

#really cool #inspirations

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#cool stuffs #refs

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Check out this great article: 51 GREAT ANIMATION EXERCISES TO MASTER 

Here are the first 5 from the list! I’ll try to do as many as I can :)

#ooooh #coolies #ref

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Some stills for an animation I made in class.

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Black Desert Online character creation from 2nd Closed Beta.

#wow that's pretty cool #video

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#interesting #refs

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Happy Lunar New Year!

Gorgeous animation!

Reminds me of Okami (which makes sense), and made for Louis Vuitton (which I could take it or leave it tbh), anyway…Happy Lunar New Year!

#woaaah #nice #gifs #animations

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More pans from this. /o/

Luke/Illia/Malachi/Alvers/OrCa Twins/Melanie/Aria

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A pan I did for my class video.

Luke/Illia/Malachi/Alvers/OrCa Twins/Melanie/Aria

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#coolies #refs

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Rain-bros

#cuuuuute #gifs

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#lovely colors #refs

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#that is coooool #gifs #stop motion

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#oooh #coolness #resources

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My short film assignment for film and video class. Not really used to stop motion, but it was an interesting experience.

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Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

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