1.4 Kinetic Typography

For this class we had to communicate information about a font of our choice and make a short animation about it. This was pretty straight forward to do and did it with ease as I knew what I was going to do from the start in term of how it was going to appear and for how long.

1.5 alphabet

I had this done before I came to class because I spend 3 hours doing this over the Easter break so I just came in to see what people thought of it. I put a lot of time and efferent into making this alphabet and I even got it to animate.

Overall I am very glad how this came out even if it took 260 photographs and a bit of animating and photo shopping to get it looking right, I came out class and I might even make a better one over the summer.              

1.4 Photoshop Creative Workflow

At the start of the class we had to import an image of a poppy into Photoshop. After we did we were taught they basic reasons why to use Photoshop and in what why.       

Image types

·         Tiff’s are good for quality and are compatibility with most software but are big in file size.

·         Psd means it’s an editable Photoshop document.

·         Jpeg’s are not transparent but they are small in size which means they are good for photography’s

·         Png’s are transparent but are a small but bigger than jpeg’s

·         Gif can only use 250 colours and are normally used for logos

Photoshop is best for

·         Being able Channel 8 bit images

·         Can easily Grayscale and Duotone an image and it great at marking correction to images of most kinds.   

After we when though they basics of why we than looked at how. We first looked at how to edit the colours of the image before you fully import it in to Photoshop, this makes it easier to change they colours and levels of the images.

We than look at using a .vpe to auto change they focus of the image without trying to do it manually which saves a lot of time.

Lastly we look at how to put make a wave in illustrator and put it in to Photoshop while still being connected to illustrator so that changes could be make.  

1.5 alphabet

For this part of the task we had to draw three full alphabets from things related to our first class of doing this three weeks ago. I really like the idea of an alphabet that moved as you typed it in so went with the elements idea.

For my first one I did fire because an alphabet on fire is funny to say.

I than did one with bricks so that if I could not get it to move when I am doing they proper one this can be my back up

And then I did light because I thought that if I had enough time I could do the alphabet using light art photography but I’m not sure how I would get this to move so we’ll see.      

How do we think about curtual diversity?

we watched night cries by tcacey moffattt today, it was about a young black women talking care of an old white women; this was to represent the feelings of having your last family member being a different race and different blood line.

later on we talked about narrative design and visual design in story's. we mostly talked about the structure of a normally story and than slowly relating it to ourselves by bring in the 22 Pixar rules that they follow to make all there animations.
lastly we got reminded about are hand in for our next project which in next Thursday and the file limit is 200mb's.
and also don't forget to put your name on it.   

1.4 alphabet

For are next drawing task from john we get to start an alphabet. The first class is only the first five letters but it is hard to draw an alphabet related to animation. I ended drawing zombies, characters from a game call “plants VS zombies” and I draw the last set of five letters on elements such as five ice .e.c.t.