Thursday, 4 June 2009
EVALUATION - Reflection
Our creative media assignment this term was to create an animation and I feel I completed this successfully. As this was our second creative media task for the year and therefore our second experience of keeping a creative media documentarily journal, I felt more prepared. This time I decided to keep a blog instead of a paper journal. I found this worked better for me and I will keep a blog apposed to a paper journal next term because it can always be accessed. As long as you have a computer, you can’t forget it. It is easy to misplace or forget a paper journal but it is almost impossible to lose blog. This makes me much more comfortable.
I am extremely happy with my final result and I think I have done well this term. I found animationish and animation much harder than photoshop. Through this process, I have become much more comfortable using a blog and animationish. At the beginning of the unit, I expected animation to be much more complicated than it was. It is still very hard, but there are4 not as many tools and the process isn’t as complicated as it was for photoshop in my opinion.
I have learnt how to use animationish and feel comfortable using it in future. I learnt how to duplicate frames and change them, use the truck tool and key frames as well as learning about how to use the bamboo tablets. I haven’t really learnt any tricks, but I have learnt how to operate the program successfully.
The development and planning of my character helped me when writing my personality profiles. Little things, such as how he has a limp and walks oddly have been included to add credit. My inspiration didn’t help me very much as what I decided to do changed dramatically throughout the assignment.
For the last assignment, I received straight A’s. I was very nervous going into this as I would really like to maintain this average and as my animation will suffer from my lack of drawing skills, I knew this meant I had to work really hard on my blog, ensuring it is maintained and accurate.
I didn’t have any problems that I couldn’t work through and I am happy with my finished animation and I think I have produced the best work possible. Next time, when Miranda and I team up to create and i-stop motion piece, I am going to be much better at the time line prediction. I think I bit off more than I could chew with this assignment, although I think I dealt with this well.
I am convinced that this movie, named ‘BOBS BIG DAY’ would be a great idea for a children’s film. Although this is simply a thirty second trailer, I am convinced that Pixur will love this animation as much as I do. This film is ideal for young children as it is a fun idea. Bob is easy to relate to and is just your typical guy. Children around the world will love this film as it’s just a great movie with a great vibe.
I am extremely happy with my final result and I think I have done well this term. I found animationish and animation much harder than photoshop. Through this process, I have become much more comfortable using a blog and animationish. At the beginning of the unit, I expected animation to be much more complicated than it was. It is still very hard, but there are4 not as many tools and the process isn’t as complicated as it was for photoshop in my opinion.
I have learnt how to use animationish and feel comfortable using it in future. I learnt how to duplicate frames and change them, use the truck tool and key frames as well as learning about how to use the bamboo tablets. I haven’t really learnt any tricks, but I have learnt how to operate the program successfully.
The development and planning of my character helped me when writing my personality profiles. Little things, such as how he has a limp and walks oddly have been included to add credit. My inspiration didn’t help me very much as what I decided to do changed dramatically throughout the assignment.
For the last assignment, I received straight A’s. I was very nervous going into this as I would really like to maintain this average and as my animation will suffer from my lack of drawing skills, I knew this meant I had to work really hard on my blog, ensuring it is maintained and accurate.
I didn’t have any problems that I couldn’t work through and I am happy with my finished animation and I think I have produced the best work possible. Next time, when Miranda and I team up to create and i-stop motion piece, I am going to be much better at the time line prediction. I think I bit off more than I could chew with this assignment, although I think I dealt with this well.
I am convinced that this movie, named ‘BOBS BIG DAY’ would be a great idea for a children’s film. Although this is simply a thirty second trailer, I am convinced that Pixur will love this animation as much as I do. This film is ideal for young children as it is a fun idea. Bob is easy to relate to and is just your typical guy. Children around the world will love this film as it’s just a great movie with a great vibe.
EVALUATION - Reflection
Our creative media assignment this term was to create an animation and I feel I completed this successfully. As this was our second creative media task for the year and therefore our second experience of keeping a creative media documentarily journal, I felt more prepared. This time I decided to keep a blog instead of a paper journal. I found this worked better for me and I will keep a blog apposed to a paper journal next term because it can always be accessed. As long as you have a computer, you can’t forget it. It is easy to misplace or forget a paper journal but it is almost impossible to lose blog. This makes me much more comfortable.
I am extremely happy with my final result and I think I have done well this term. I found animationish and animation much harder than photoshop. Through this process, I have become much more comfortable using a blog and animationish. At the beginning of the unit, I expected animation to be much more complicated than it was. It is still very hard, but there are4 not as many tools and the process isn’t as complicated as it was for photoshop in my opinion.
I have learnt how to use animationish and feel comfortable using it in future. I learnt how to duplicate frames and change them, use the truck tool and key frames as well as learning about how to use the bamboo tablets. I haven’t really learnt any tricks, but I have learnt how to operate the program successfully.
The development and planning of my character helped me when writing my personality profiles. Little things, such as how he has a limp and walks oddly have been included to add credit. My inspiration didn’t help me very much as what I decided to do changed dramatically throughout the assignment.
For the last assignment, I received straight A’s. I was very nervous going into this as I would really like to maintain this average and as my animation will suffer from my lack of drawing skills, I knew this meant I had to work really hard on my blog, ensuring it is maintained and accurate.
I didn’t have any problems that I couldn’t work through and I am happy with my finished animation and I think I have produced the best work possible. Next time, when Miranda and I team up to create and i-stop motion piece, I am going to be much better at the time line prediction. I think I bit off more than I could chew with this assignment, although I think I dealt with this well.
I am convinced that this movie, named ‘BOBS BIG DAY’ would be a great idea for a children’s film. Although this is simply a thirty second trailer, I am convinced that Pixur will love this animation as much as I do. This film is ideal for young children as it is a fun idea. Bob is easy to relate to and is just your typical guy. Children around the world will love this film as it’s just a great movie with a great vibe.
I am extremely happy with my final result and I think I have done well this term. I found animationish and animation much harder than photoshop. Through this process, I have become much more comfortable using a blog and animationish. At the beginning of the unit, I expected animation to be much more complicated than it was. It is still very hard, but there are4 not as many tools and the process isn’t as complicated as it was for photoshop in my opinion.
I have learnt how to use animationish and feel comfortable using it in future. I learnt how to duplicate frames and change them, use the truck tool and key frames as well as learning about how to use the bamboo tablets. I haven’t really learnt any tricks, but I have learnt how to operate the program successfully.
The development and planning of my character helped me when writing my personality profiles. Little things, such as how he has a limp and walks oddly have been included to add credit. My inspiration didn’t help me very much as what I decided to do changed dramatically throughout the assignment.
For the last assignment, I received straight A’s. I was very nervous going into this as I would really like to maintain this average and as my animation will suffer from my lack of drawing skills, I knew this meant I had to work really hard on my blog, ensuring it is maintained and accurate.
I didn’t have any problems that I couldn’t work through and I am happy with my finished animation and I think I have produced the best work possible. Next time, when Miranda and I team up to create and i-stop motion piece, I am going to be much better at the time line prediction. I think I bit off more than I could chew with this assignment, although I think I dealt with this well.
I am convinced that this movie, named ‘BOBS BIG DAY’ would be a great idea for a children’s film. Although this is simply a thirty second trailer, I am convinced that Pixur will love this animation as much as I do. This film is ideal for young children as it is a fun idea. Bob is easy to relate to and is just your typical guy. Children around the world will love this film as it’s just a great movie with a great vibe.
My Changed StoryBoard
At the beginning of the term when I started my animation, I over estimated the amoount I would be able to complete as I had no expereince with the program and animation. As I progressed, I realised that my original story board actually becoming a finished animation was slim to none. I failed to complete what my story board had planned out as I just didn't have enough time. I am happy with what I completed but I didn't get to complete what I originally set for myself on my storyboard.
Combinding backgrounds
Throught the proccess of animation, I came to a dilema. I decided I wanted to include grass and a post from the internet. I discovered that I needed to incorporate the two as I was only able to include one. Luckily, my photoshop skills from last term came in handy and enabled me to complete this task effectively so I wasted minimal time away from my animation.
Animationish to Quicktime
When working on an animation in animationish style, it is always saved as an animationish file. However, when uploading images to a blog or the dropbox, the type of file is not appropriate. The animation must be transfered to a quicktime file which is also known as a movie file. To do this, when the animation is open, simply click share which is on the top left next to the save button. You then select quicktime from the menu which appears. This means your file is ready to be played and shared!
Layers of animation - Foreground & Background
The layers of animationish are much simpler and extremely different when compared to that of photoshop. There are only two layers, the foreground and the background. The background is used to have just what the name suggests, background. Backgrounds don't move and travel around. The foreground, on the other hand is all action. The foreground is where the characters and/or objects move around. Whenever my Piffle or Bob is moving, I transfer them to the foreground. In my animation, the table, grass and sign are always in the background while the other two rotate. I only ever have one object in the foreground at a time or I find that I have difficulty moving them around.
SCRIPT FOR ANIMATION
SCRIPT FOR MY ANIMATION:
Bob walks across the screen, then stops when he sees the post. He sees that there is a competition running.
BOB: Wow, a competition today! I really want to win the Puffle prize!
Bob walks off screen.
Bob is running across screen
BOB: I won I won I won I won I won I won I won I won I won
When Bob reaches the prize table, the puffle called Piffle jumps off the table and onto the ground near Bob’s feet. Bob dances around and accidently trends on Piffle’s feet.
PIFFLE: Argggg! You stepped on my foot!
BOB: Oh, sorry little guy!
PIFFLE: AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGG
Piffle transforms from a cute and cuddly little Puffle into a vicious monster! Bob runs of screen
BOB: Arr! Run away, run away, run away, runaway! He’s trying to eat me! Run away.
I am voicing Bob and Miranda is voicing Piffle for me. I have decided to give Piffle and Bob different voices as the two characters are extremely different.
Bob walks across the screen, then stops when he sees the post. He sees that there is a competition running.
BOB: Wow, a competition today! I really want to win the Puffle prize!
Bob walks off screen.
Bob is running across screen
BOB: I won I won I won I won I won I won I won I won I won
When Bob reaches the prize table, the puffle called Piffle jumps off the table and onto the ground near Bob’s feet. Bob dances around and accidently trends on Piffle’s feet.
PIFFLE: Argggg! You stepped on my foot!
BOB: Oh, sorry little guy!
PIFFLE: AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGG
Piffle transforms from a cute and cuddly little Puffle into a vicious monster! Bob runs of screen
BOB: Arr! Run away, run away, run away, runaway! He’s trying to eat me! Run away.
I am voicing Bob and Miranda is voicing Piffle for me. I have decided to give Piffle and Bob different voices as the two characters are extremely different.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Animation Styles - MANGA
Manga is an extremly popular form of animation. Manga is actually a form of Japanese comic, but in Western countries it is refered to as simply an asian style of drawing and animation. While each artist has his or her own style, there are a few things that give Manga a distinctive look. Drawings are typically done in pen and ink, with an emphasis on clean lines. It is very similar to Japanese animae and many peple confuse the two although they are different. Some Manga series are adapted into popular televison shows and movies.
Image: http://media.bigoo.ws/content/layout/anime-manga/cartoom-manga_25.jpg
Truck tool
THe truck tool is a tool which is used in conjunction with the key frame tool. IT is not actually called the truck tool but this is what I refer to it as because I do not know its real name. When the truck tool is activated, the moving history of an object is shown. THis means that you can made your object move evenly across the screen and see how much it is moving per frame.
Difficulties
One of the difficulties I had was getting my two character to move at once. When I out both of them it was a disaster and they did not move in relation to what I was doing but in relation to each other. I solved ythis problem by putting one in the background and one in the foreground. This fixed the problem but made is hard when changing which character was moving. I have to change Piffle and Bob from the background to the foreground, which ever is in the foreground moving and which ever is not in the background. THis is frustrating because it means it takes a much longer time to move and do anything to my animation.
Animation Characters
Pinoccio is one of the alltime favourite childrens walt disney characters. This friendly puppet is in the hearts of maby young boys and girls all around the world. He is a greqt example of an animation because the way he was created and represented through animation made it realistic- you ciuld believe from the way he moved that he was in fact a wooden puppet.
This is Lisa Simpson, a very well known character from the TV show called 'The Simpsons' which is the longest consecutive running Television show in history. She is an example of an animation. She is a cartoon style, which is a similar style to my animation.
Cinderella Image: http://www.wickedlocalparents.com/pkinsider/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/disney-walt-cinderella-1192713.jpg (3.6.09)
Lisa Simpson Image: http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/XN/lisa-simpson-heart-lg.jpg (3.6.09)
pinocchio Image: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/pinocchio.png (3.6.09)
Monday, 1 June 2009
Version Twenty Eight
This shows the version once it has been completed. For this version I acidently switched the foreground to background in regards to images present in the different layers.
Version Twenty Seven
This version shows when the monster is finished growing. I have decided to add some dialouge of him talking to Bob in this space.
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