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.