Thursday 10th April 2008
Hello Diary,
My animation is finally finished and its posted on my blog:). I had it saved it on my USB and on Tuesday i going to put it on. big problem when i actually opened it up on MovieMaker it said something about a different version this could probably be because i did it on my MovieMaker at home so it must have been different! Thankfully i had all my images saved(png) and so my teacher helped me to put it on MovieMaker, it didnt take much time thankfully. Then i added my title and credits. As well as that i forgot to mention that the duration of my images were also adjusted and so it could go faster. It took 3 saving of files before i actaully put it on my blog. I got also preview how it looked before i put it on blog, i saw it on Windows Media Player, so that was cool! Unfortunately while i was uploading onto my blog, our school emergency fire drill went off so i had to log off. When i got back my computer it would'nt work properly but then it was restarted and it worked. I didnt have time to upload then, so i hurriedly saved it on my USB and
then i uploaded at home on my blog.
It took a lot of time but hard work pays off and so im finished and it looks quite good!
Sanea:)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
My Last Diary Entry
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
My Diary Entry 6
Monday 7th April 2008
Hello Diary,
It is Monday the 7th of April and i have nearly finished my animation. Thankfully today at lunch i went to the computer rooms and i did try and export and import some of my pictures but it just didnt work that well. So i put all my pictures on my USB and came home and just finished. At the beginning went i tried to export and import there was some problem about the file name but thankfully it got sorted and all my images are now imported onto MovieMaker. I even got to finish the background as i was importing the images, thankfully there were few images that needed the background color.I even have added a title and the credits to my animation and i am just figuring out how to actually make the animation go faster, so if i cant figure it at home ill save it on my USB and do it at school! I came up with the title for my animation its called" The Boy And The Red Ball". After all that hardwork it really is goign to look cool. So tommorrow Tuesday its due!
It was quite fun learning about animation and to actually do an actual one was cool. So it was quite and experience and i learnt something new!!!!
Well, tommorrow will be my last diary entry so its been good fun.
Write to you later.
Sanea.
My Diary Entry 5
Monday 7th April 2008
Hello Diary,
On Friday the 4th of April 2008, i was starting to worry. As i hadnt even started to convert the pictures to png and import it to MovieMaker. I should have been done my background colour and i did get like 90 at the most done, but i heard it takes a long time to export it and import and so there is still the problem of my characters colour. I even had to go at lunch and do my background colour and i thought i could atleast start to export and import some but i didnt get anytime. Luckily USB's always come in handy. I saved Inkscape on my USB, but did i get a surprise,when i got home, i could install Inkscape and i did have MovieMaker on my laptop but my files weren't there. So all weekend i was helpless and couldn't do anything at all. I still had to export it and import it and time was running out. I have decided that on Monday at lunch time i would go and save every single one of my frames on my USB and then do the whole things at home and post it on my blog. So that should go as planned!!!!
Well write to you later.
Sanea.
My Diary Entry 4
Hello Diary,
On Wednesday 2nd of April 2008, i had finished making all my pictures. This lesson i had to draw the part where my character picks up the ball the moves like 2 steps bounces and then run s towards and picks it up....etc. My character exists the whole frame with the ball, so in the end you only see like the stars!. All together it was 115slides! Yeah thats a lot and it took time but i have finished it. I learnt how to change the background, the problem is that it is going to take a long time because i have to change it to dark blue for every single 115 slides. I also realised that my character had lines of black and i wasnt really sure if his body would be able to be seen against the blue background. So i did learn how to change the strokes/lines into the colour of white, but ill have to see if i have time to actaully do it. As well as that the idea about adding things to my character and the ball, i dont think ill have time to do that either because again 115 slides!!!!
Anyways, atleast my drawings have been done. I still have to convert it to png and the background! Its going to take time but i still have Friday of this week and some of next week!
Write to you later.
Sanea.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
My Diary Entry 3
Hello Dairy,
Today Tuesday so many things happened, my animation is defintely on its way. I finished with my background of putting my stars and so i moved onto the object(the ball) and the character.
I wasnt really sure about how to put the background color so that is one things i have to ask sir about next lesson(tommorrow-Wednesday). I drew my circluar figure of my ball and saved it and ill probably change the color at the end. My character that was such a big problem actually drawing it but i did learn how to make it and how to actually move the figure with the help of my teacher. My character i have decided is a stick figure, im not really sure if ill stay with the idea of having a stick figure but i have already saved like 40 slides so far so i think ill just stick to my stick figure! My character was actually drawn outside the box so the whole idea is that i can show it entering the whole picture. So i started with a my characters arm, only like a very small part showing in the box in the beginning. Then i saved it and gradually moved it slowly slowly into the box and each time i pressed, so it was like tap- and then save that movement of the figure. Unfortunately my figure does not have facial appearance so i'll have to go and edit that or since my character is moving side ways i can just show his hair .It will look too plain without anything just a stick figure so ill ofcourse add some other things like the shoes, maybe even a hat would look cool. The object of the ball could be decorated too!
I got an idea of how the the saving of each image you do actaully makes your whole animation. My files were all one after another obviously and so whenever i click one after another i actaully saw how it all worked like how the stars come slowly slowly into your picture and then how my charater slowly slowly walked towards the ball, so that was really cool. Imagine how its actually going to look on MovieMaker. I have also decided that in the beginning of my animation i am going to add a title and in the end the credits!
Next lesson i plan to put the background, add some things to my character continue with my animation. I have to now make my character actually pick the ball up, and then bounce it its going to take a lot of slides and its going to be challenging, but its a lot of fun.
As well as that our assignment has been due next week so we get another week so thats good!Make it perfect....
Write to you later
Sanea
My images have been put up....
My Diary Entry 2
Hello Diary,
Today in IT, we ofcourse got to work on our animation assignment. I started to draw my images on inkscape. At first i was just drawing all the images just at the same time, but i learnt that you were actually supposed to draw one image for e.g. like a star and then save it and then if you draw another star you save it too just naming it a different file! I didnt actaully intend to draw a background for my animation but then it just came to me so i decided to draw stars. I'll probably also be adding color to the background probably like a dark blue or black. So i started to draw my blue stars which are in different sizes and saved each of them under the file names so they can come one after another....example STAR 1, STAR 2 etc..... That is mostly what happened on Friday, our assignment is due somewhere next week most probably next Friday so my animation shall be on its way!
Write to you later
Sanea
I have added my images!
