Definitions

I know - eewww, but I have to write this because Mr Andrew said so.DefinitionsKey FramesKey frames are the important frames that define the start and end or major points of a small movement like heroically jumping from a broken bridge to the other side of the chasm to save the damsel in distress. probably a smaller movement than that, but...

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Wednesday 20th April

This lesson I continued working on my skipping man animation cycle. I decided I would add blinking eyes and a mouth to my character. I did this by repeating three different images of eyes: a full eye, a squinty eye, and a closed eye. For the mouth I created a loop with the same number of frame as the skip so that where the skip...

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Tuesday 19th April

This lesson was the most horrible and frustrating lesson I have ever had so far in Creative Media. Animation-ish crashed three times. I lost all my work twice. I had finished the skipping man cycle, which included touching him up, adding exposure three times to every frame so that he skipped at the right speed and erasing the little...

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Monday 18th April

This lesson in Creative Media I learnt about animation cycles, which are frames that create a small movement that then form a loop, and can be repeated continuously. I then started creating a small loop of a skipping man by tracing a short and simple animation cycle I found on google on animation-ish. I did this by placing the...

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Examples of Animation

Animation StylesTraditional AnimationTraditional animation is the animation technique in which pictures are hand drawn in frames and then played in fast succession to create the illusion of movement, like in a flip book. There are a few variations of this, like limited animation. Limited animation, unlike full animation, doesn't...

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Thursday 14th April

In our second lesson Mr Andrews taught us about key points, or important points, generally the start and end of a movement. Then we added a moving background to our bouncing ball animation so that it appeared to be bouncing along. Unfortunately, I did not save the original animation-ish file to my USB and so I had to start all...

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Term 2

In Creative Media this term we are learning about animation. In our first lesson Mr Andrews Introduced us to various types and examples of animation such as traditional (both full, such as Disney, and limited, such as Japanese Anime), Tradigital, claymation and others. We also got to experiment in animation-ish, and create a short bouncing...

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