Friday 28/1/11

Friday...Fryday........Frieday...Freeday......Friday!

So yeah, todays Friday and you know what that means?...IT'S TIME...TO..PAAAAARTY!!!! *inserts party music*

But I must do that thing and tell you what happened today! :D

Well, in John's class, we continued in our epic persue-age to do our zombie flick, John liked my idea for the cover which was a melting biohazard symbol, tis rather awesome :P then he gave me the camera and I started taking pictures for locations for our flick! we were also looking at how to walk like a zombie and how to do the makeup :D tis going great so far :P

Then later in Dee's class, we continued with putting our animation together and I got it done and finally got to animate it, it looks sooooooo cool :P

We animated it by croping the slides so that we could only see the image and no black bordered line, then we clicked on window and then animation in the drop-down menu, afterwards, it brought up a bar which we then clicked in the top-right corner and selected Make frames from layers and it brought up each layer, which then I clicked the 1st frame, held down the shift button, selected the last frame and it selected all, then I chose the the time gap between each picture to get a smooth picture and thats how my animation was created :D

So hopefully that'll do for today...hopefully.....

anyways....

Buh Bye <3

Thursday 27/1/11

Today in Hannah's class, we watched the Disney Pixar documentary that we watched earlier in the course, we got told to take notes cos we were going to do a quiz at the end of it, and then we marked someone elses quiz on it!

I know, nothing much, but thats all

Buh Byeee <3

Thursday 20/1/11

Today.....

In Laura's class we filled in a sheet about the course so far and Laura gave us feedback on how we were doing on the course.

Then later in Hannah's class, we continued with completing our flip books, I finally finished mines and coloured it, it's an animation of a spaceship that blasts off, heads to the moon, crashes on it, then explodes!!! :D Creative aren't I?

anyways....

Buh Bye <3

Thursday 13/1/11

Today in Laura's class, we helped her fill out the college feedback form she was filling out by asking us questions about the course so far!

Then later in Hannah's class, we started creating a flipbook, creating a storyboard at first then attempting to create the actual product, we also learned that a frame is a still image and it takes 25 frames per second to get a smooth image (:

So thats me for today :D

Buh Byeeeees <3

Friday 7/1/11

Today in Johns class, we started to put together our podcast for our class magazine, recording each of us, talking about what we did in our articles and such.

Then in Dee's class, we were shown a powerpoint on Animation, talking about different types of animation, the history and steps to creating animation.

Then we each chose our favourite type of animation in the form of a movie, music video or programme and showed an example to the class before talking about it.

Thats briefly what we did today and now to finish up :) ....

Buh Byeeee <3

Thursday 6/1/11

Today in Laura's class we filled out our college applications for the next course we want to move onto after the summer.

Later on in Hannah's class we learned.....


Animation is a rather rapid display of images placed in a sequence using either 2D or 3D artwork as well as models to create the illusion of movement. There are many known forms of animation but in todays standards, the most common methods of presenting animation are motion picture or video program.




Two forms of early animation are the flip-book animation and the mutoscope animation.  The flipnote animation, being a more primitive form of animation, was created using many still pictures, with each in a slightly different position than the last and when bundled together and flipped would create the illusion of a moving picture or an animation. The mutoscope is similar to a flip-book, but instead the images are printed on card instead of paper and were coin-operated and placed into pleasure villas and arcades during its time.













Two forms of contemporary animation are Model animation and Cel-shaded animation. Model animation is  the use of stop motion within a live action film or short, a good example of tis would be the original black and white original King Kong. Cel-shaded animation is a ind of non-photorealistic  rendering that creates a kind of colourful cartoony style to the animation, its an animation style that commonly exists in video games more than movies.

The difference between early and contemporary animation is that contemporary is far more advanced than the early animation, because of the advancement in technology has been able to create a more diverse selection of animation forms and even been able to advance on the more primitive forms of animation.

My favourite animation has to be stop-animation, because you can literally bring anything to life with it from anything