Animation

Lesson 4 // Animation 

In this lesson we began to work on making animations and GIF's using Adobe Photoshop. Firstly I created the circle shape which I made Gradient to make the animation look a bit more interesting. After doing this, I added a new layer and added one more tab on the timeline. I then took the circle and moved it  to the middle right part of the box. Once again I put another tab on the timeline and moved the animation to the bottom left corner. I used the shift key to select the first and second tab and used the tween tool and selected 15 frames to add to create the first part of the GIF to make it look like the ball was moving across the screen. I then used the shift key again to add the last tab and second to last tab, used the tween tool on 15 frames again and created the second half of the GIF to make the ball move from the middle right to the left. 

 

For this animation we used the same method in Adobe Photoshop. We used the same sized box and firstly used the text box tool to write my name in the middle. I created a two new tabs on the animation timeline and selected the first one of which I kept the text opacity the same. With the second tab of text I changed text opacity down to 0%. The final tab I kept the text as 100% opacity. After doing this, I selected the two first tabs and used the tween tool at 10 frames to add to make it look like the text is slowly fading. I then selected the last and second to last tabs and did the same as before, adding the tween at 10 frames. Above is my result. 

This final animation was made slightly different to the previous two. Firstly, I writ the name 'Els' in the middle of the white box. I then used the square tool to select each separate letter and copy and paste them. I then moved text box out of the white box so it could not be seen once the GIF was complete. Using the animation timeline, I made a new frame and moved the first letter 'E' down to be seen in the middle of the white box, I once again added two new frames to move first 'l' to the middle then 's'. Lastly I used the tween tool again to add 10 frames between the first and second frame and the second and last. Above is the result. 

Factoids Workshop

France was still killing people by guillotine when star wars came out

The jewellery store Tiffany & Co was founded before Italy 

Cuteness inspire aggression which is why we want to squeeze things we find cute

There was more time between the stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you

Cupcakes can be as addicting as coccaine 

Heroic was once used to treat children's coughs.

In the mid-1960s, Slumber Party Barbie came with a book called "How to Lose Weight." One of the tops was "Don’t eat."

Pizza Hut has made perfume that smells like a fresh box of pizzas.

10 percent of the world’s 3.5 trillion photos have been taken in the last year.

For two lessons we have been working on creating an animation/GIF that will show a fact in a 'fun' and entertaining way. Using photoshop we had to design a animation that includes enticing type font and pictures. The animation had to move around and look as though it flows from begin to end. The fact that i animated is 'There was more time between the stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you'. Below is what i created...

I firstly had to choose what images, fonts and colours I wanted all throughout my animation. I wanted to pic fun colours and 'happy' colours. Because my fact was quite interesting, I didn't want the animation to look boring and non entertaining. I picked colours that would relate to the prehistoric time, therefore colours that relate to nature and 'reptiles', such as blues, yellows, and greens. The font i picked I wanted to appeal to all audience therefore I didn't just pick on font and chose several. I found my fonts from dafont.com, and searched for multiple different criteria's that helped me pick the ones I want, for example I wanted to go for a 'bamboo' look to relate to the kind of trees around in the the prehistoric times therefore I searched 'bamboo' and it came up with multiple fonts. Then I had to look into the images I wanted on the animation, I didn't have a preference to whether I wanted the images to be cartoon like or real life looking so I used a mixture, the only things I had to adjust with the images in the size, so they would fit in to a 10x10 box with a 72 resolution.

To begin animating I first had to compile all the images to how I wanted them on each frame for example including the text, the clock and background on the first frame and so on. To connect the next frame I had to hide all these components and do the same thing with the second part of the fact. To begin animating I first had to move all the components on the first fact out of the frame. Next I created a second frame and began moving in certain parts of the components that I wanted to animate in first, therefore I dragged the words 'there was more' down to where they were visible. I then selected the two frames and used the tween tool to make the beginning of the animation look as though it was moving down into the screen. I then did this for the clock and also the background using the exact same method, I continued this to do this whole animation to complete the GIF!