TanaGoodmanUnit3AnimationDTR

= This is my unit 3 page on animation (stick man) =

= = = //PRACTICE ANIMATION:// =

We were told to make three animations on flash for practice just so we could get used to using flash, our three tasks were; stick man, an image changing to another using a trick or effect and on with words and these three were practices. Our final animation is meant to be what changes people go trough in life because there are so many changes people go through we were meant to choose on and confirm with our teachers just to be sure if that idea was good enough for your assessment and we start making our final animations after your investigations and designs. Flash was a few times hard to use but that's because it was new to me and most of us in the class but i learnt new tricks on flash which i didn't think i would have learn, which was a fun experience but finding out some of the things was hard at times but making animations is fun and its the the easiest thing but its not hard either. I did as much work as i could do which i think is enough and i did better in this animation because i didn't find it as hard as i thought it would have been, but i did my best but not to the fullest but hopefully that was enough for my practice animations.

=__ Stick man animation: __=

=__ Picture animation: __=

=__ Word animation: __=

=// My investigation: //= We were given a task to make three animations using flash and flash was new to I think most of us so it gave us more work to figure it out flash. This unit was meant to be done without so much help as we are usually given on the wiki and from our teachers, this was not that hard but it was good because it made us work more on our own and figure things out unlike always being told told what to do from a-z which was pretty good. The three animations were; one was a stick man, the other and image changing to another using different skills and effects that we know or that we found out during our work and the last was words, making your name in flash and it making something with words, having at least twelve frames per second, having some layers and must be at least fifteen second long. Flash is good but we kept having problems of flash shutting down before we saved our work or some times it would just freeze which sort of slowed us down during the process of making an animations. We started off by making the stick man which didn't require that many skills and tricks because it was basic and you could do what ever you wanted with your stick man as long as it moved, reflected, rotated etc... as much as it was the most basic one it was also hard depending on what you did, for example if your its jumping off a cliff or something like that you had to out each step in a separate frame which wasn't hard but it took a lot of time. The second was the picture animation which was just fading a picture to another picture this was the easiest from the three, most of us used the blur effect to change a picture to another and the last was the word animation which could could have like a little story with words throughout (only words). After making the animations we were meant to write an investigation and look at the wiki for what is meant to be done. The task for this unit was using animation to see the changes people go through like, appearances, behavior, emotion etc... We had to make it due to a community for example BMIS, our family and friends. Here is some of the research i did or found: Animation is a rapidly sequence of frames that create an illusion of movement, (my own definition). Animation is used for different things to create movies, cartoon movies and sometimes comics. Animation has been around for a very long time even though those many years back people did not refer to it as animation, they made animations in form of carvings which were put in caves or just walls, these days some people also put animations on walls in form of graffiti and sometimes just drawings on walls, in the old days animation or carvings was used to show stories or changes that people went through so for example the world evolving or people changing the way they look and dress over time compared to old days to today. The first work of animation was made by J. Stuart Blackton in 1906.

= //DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS// =

For the design specifications we are meant to do what exactly what we are required to for high marks(not doing everything costs us marks). Here is what we were meant to do: for my final project i will hopefully do exactly what am required to and and have my own different tricks or effects to make the animation interesting unlike it just being plain and very boring. I have a few ideas on what to do and what my animation is going to be like but through the work i will make some changes and put in more things than what i had planned and hopefully this unit will got better even though the unit is not that hard just a bit complicated. IT being one of my favorite subjects i will try and work to my fullest and get good marks for this unit.
 * have a background that moves.
 * have at least 5 layers.
 * be at least 15 seconds long.
 * play at 12 frames per second.
 * have a morphing image.



=// Design Evaluation //=

=__ Design three: __=
 * i will use my first design because i like it better than the others and it shows or has what my design specifications. It shows what i want to show the people. my design shows a young girl who goes through changes, from being a young innocent to an alcohol and drug addict, she ends up getting tattoos and starts drugs and smoking everyday! Then she gets pregnant and while she is pregnant she still smokes and does drugs which eventually kills the fetus.... This doesn't really follow my designs specifications but it shows some changes that some people go through in life.**[[image:164929.JPG width="800" height="570"]]