Thursday's Lesson

In today's lesson, Abbey worked on Scene 6 and I worked on Scene 9.
Scene 9 was the scene that the main character girl in our animation woke up from her dream.
To make this scene, I got a picture of a cartoon girl sleeping from Google, and traced it. After I had traced it, I duplicated the foreground and background so I wouldn't have to draw it all over again. For part it the animation, I wanted to make the girl's head move. Mr Powell teached me a way to do this, without having to draw the whole animation again. I selected the parts that were not going to move, and cut and pasted this onto the background so that it wouldn't change. After this, I selected the part that was going to move it, and made slight changes in each frame. This saved a lot of time and was very effective.
After I did this, to create the effect that the girl was blinking, I went to one of the frames which were going to be of her blinking, rubbed out the eyes and drew a simple eye. After this, I copy and pasted this frame into the places which I was going to make her open her eyes. I did the same thing with the frames with her closing her eyes, which also saved time.

Friday's Lesson

In Creative Media today, we did Scene 8 of our animation. For this scene, we used Animation-ish. We plan to do Scenes 5 and 7 next as these do not require iStopMotion but only Animation-ish and Photoshop.

Storyboard 1

Tuesdays Lesson

On Tuesday, Abbey and I finished out story boards for our animation/photoshop/iStopMotion assignment. We plan to do the hard photoshop scenes first, so we are not rushing at the end, if we do not have enough time. We also think that this will help us in our organisation. I am really looking forward to seeing the finished animation. :D

Monday's Lesson

Today in Creative Media, Mr Powell taught and showed us about story boards and how it can help us in planning and managing our animation.
He also told us the time frame in which we could be able to organise ourselves and finish the animation in time without doing it at the last minute.
I think that the story boards will really help me with this assignment because my weakest point in assignments is my organisation and doing it in time.