Journal 4-IST Assigment

Yaaaaaaaaay, finally I finished all of my frames but I'm still not quite sure how to put them on my blog. I'm going to ask Sir because people are telling me I need to make a photobucket account and then upload it to there before I put it on my blog. They are also telling me to put my frames backwards when I add them on gimp to play or ele it ill playback the wrong way. I don't think it's going t be my lucky day when I try to put it on my blog. I know something is going to go wrong

Journal 3 IST Assignment

I am half way through exporting my frames and as I have been doing it I have changed my idea a little bit. I am going to make the the pink panther kind of loop through by making him stay in the crest but hang onto the 'R' for Ryan. Now I have abou 150 frames and still more to go. I'm aiming for about 300 frames at the most bt I probably will have to cut some out or scale them down so that it wil be able to fit on my blog. I'm aiming for a frme rate of about 7-10 frames/ second but i'm not quite sure yet.

Journal 2 IST Assignment

Here are some of my ideas to do with the pink panther animation

*Make the pink panther come in a spin the compass to piont the right way to courage

*For him to throw up the letters of Ryan but hitting the compass as they go past.

*For him to lean on the compass, and make it move while he holds onto it when it's spinning and then he flys of the screen while the compass points to the way to courage.

*The Ryan letters are all jumbled up and scattered around the compass. The panther comes in and then turns the wheel like on quiz shows and walks to the other side while the compass is busy spinning and putting the Ryan letters back into place.

I am going to choose the second option as I did find an image on the internet of a leaning pink panther and I don't think it will be that difficult to trace. I also chose this as I thought it best promoted my house out of all of the options. I kept in mind the time limit and my knowledge and this one was best proportioned within the time limit and I'm hoping it will be effective. I saved the image off the internet as an .svg so that it could be viewed on inkscape. Today, I started tracing the panther and filling the colours in and changing it a little bit so that it would stand out. I grouped each of the sections of my pink panther and placed it on the crest. I then started saving exporting the images as a .png. So far I have about 70 frames and I need to do a lot more.

Journal1- IST Assignment

I have had some difficulties blogging on Friday so I have tried again today. Over the past week I have been fiddling with and learning how to use inkscape and gimp, trying to see which program would be easier for me, personally to do my assignment. When using inkscape I have experimented with using the drawing boards that plug into your computer that can help you with drawing but I find it very difficult so I'm not going to use it. I have also been searching the internet and finding pictures that would best represent my house. For example pink panther, pig, flamingo or even a pink hippopotamus and also if I should use the Ryan house crest. When thinking about choosing one I have to keep in mind how long it will take me, how difficult it will be when choosing each of the pictures and if I have the resources and the skill yet to perform what I am expecting.

I have chosen to use the inkscape software as I feel I can understand it a lot better than gimp. Sir also used it in a lot of examples of things he showed to the class and he also recommended it to be the easiest one to use. I chose a flamingo and searched for it as an .svg file on wikimedia and found some results. I chose the best looking one. Then there was a difficulty, the flamingo could move itself but if I wantedif I wanted to make the neck move then it would be out of proportion to the first frame, it might be fatter or skinnier and it wouldn't flow, when it played. If I really want to do a flamingo sir said i would have to trace it. I made the decision not to because It would take a lot of time to trace and I flamingos don't do much and I couldn't animate it very well because of this. So I scrapped that idea.

This is a practice test run I did let's hope it works for my actal animation.

I chose to do the pink panther because it's familiar to people as it is present in cartoons and it could be animated in all sorts of ways and I didn't mind tracing it as it was similar to a drawing of a dog Sir demonstrated to us. Now, I'm thinking up ideas of how I can use the crest and the pink panther which is the mascot together. Maybe I could have it walkin and turn the compass round and round. HMMMmmmmm.

3Ding and Shadowing on Word

I never knew that you could do this it loooks sooo cool and I can use it for other assignments and stuff like that. I used enlarging on the lightning strike, shadowing on the moon and I clicked and dragged the yellow dot that was on the rainbow one.

The 3 Little Piggies-word document

Hi Sir, do you like it. It's my favourite story. I did this on word and Ithink I followed the instructions carefully. Firstly I got the cube tool and the free form toll to draw the house. I drew a few squares with the rectangle tool. Then I drew a million cicles for 1 pig. Well, I guess I'm over exaggerating but it seemed like forever, I copied the different sized circles to create the other to pigs also. I used the 3-D style tool on the pigs arms and for the cute little ears I used the pentagon tool. For the backround I used fill effects and chose preset colours, ocean . I then went to word art to create the heading 'The 3 Little Pigs!' I then inserted a sun and used fill effects again. As it said on the instructions I made speach bubbles for each of the pigs and and chose the chiller font. I then chose the text box tool to create the homewarming mat at the front of the house. I then created the grass with the freeform tool and filled it in green. I like this piece of work and it actually turned out better than I thought it would.