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 dot above his head, I had then coloured my little man, and was in the process of adding a background when it crashed the first time. And so I lost half a lessons work. So I did it all again. I was duplicating the animation loop to make the animation longer and adding key frames to the background so that it move when the spinning beach-ball of death appeared. I know my time was up. I was right - animation-ish crashed. again. Oh by the way we learnt about key frames and tween frames today, which are the important frames at the start and end of a movement that define the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. And the tween frames go in between. The number of tween frames dictates how log the movement goes for. Now back to the horrible lesson. So unfortunately I couldn't find where I had been saving my work, and I had to start again. I did everything again and was doing the exactly same thing when, for the third time, the spinning beach-ball of death appeared. No amount of yelling at the spinning beach-ball of death made it go away and the program crashed. This time I did find my work though because I decided to save it to the desk top so I got on with my work. I added key frames to my character so that he would get smaller and bigger and move about on the screen as he skipped around on clouds like he was going into the distance and coming back. By the way, I am officially terrified of saving my work, because every time I save it the spinning beach-ball of death appears. The program doesn't crash, but still. I am emotionally, mentally and psychologically scarred.

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