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.