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Practice Animation:

We did a practice exercise to get used to Flash. To remember what we did last year and how to do certain things on Flash, but i was not started in BMIS last year so this was really new for me. I did a small animation that was really stupid, but since i didn't exactly know how to make the stick man look like he is walking properly like a human. I tried to make him walk like he was a human but it didn´t work probably i just made him walk to the side without turning. But i did find out how to make him explode without doing it frame by frame and it was kind a cool. When i did the picture animation i found it harder to make the pictures fade into the next because i got confused how to do it and stuff like that. but i did what i could and i asked just Dewmi for help. Then i tried to play around and find out how to do certain things but i was scared of ruining what i already did, so i opened another document and tried to figure it out. So I just did what i could. i did find out a lot more than i thought i could. i think that my animations were quite simple but still it's a work in progress. i tried my best i did what i could on the practice animations. But at home i was going to put my animation practice on my wikispaces then i didn´t find the USB key that i had all my work on.

I am not able to put my animation practice because of the lost of my USB key. But i understand everything

= = = My Investigation: = For this unit we are doing animation on flash without that much help from the teacher so we can get used to doing what we are supposed to do without the teacher telling us what to do in every single lesson. We started with getting used to animation by just doing what we felt by doing like doing a practice animation, and figuring out what we were supposed to use for certain things. After that we didn't exactly did animation, we just did what we thought was necessary for the different stage of the design cycle. Now after we did that we started to do the investigation stage of this unit, we started by creating a simple stick man animation which was at least 15 seconds long and it must make sense and that is allot of frames if i remember right i think it is around 120 frames or something and it can take a long time to do it if you are not working on it at home. Later on after we finished the stick-man animation, we had to do a picture animation that makes the picture s fade into the other; I found this one a little bit harder to do because i was confused how to put the picture into flash. The Unit question for this unit is **What development and changes do people go through?.** For this unit we had to research and create an animation on how people change as they grow up. I had alot of ideas but i didn't know how to make it into a animation so i did what i could do. I did a lot of research on animation itself, and found a lot about animation and i found out ways to make little but really clever tricks on flash. I found out plenty of little but effective tricks. After the picture animation we had to do a name animation, or an animation that had letters and words in it. I also found this easier than the stick-man animation because it didn't require me to move much of the body of the stick-man but then i found a good way to do the stick man like he is running. After doing the animation we were supposed to start the investigation and try to find out what we had to do by looking at the wikispaces and following the instructions. The task for this unit is to demonstrate how people are changing using an animation, like their appearance, social changes, behavioral changes, emotional changes, etc... The problem we choose must be presented in a social setting. we have to use animation and our change must show we are related to our community. Like the BMIS community, our family and any other societies we belong to. Here is the research I did on animation for my final animation: Firstly animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. Animation now days consists of motion pictures like cartoons or cartoon movies; they are also used in video programming. Animation has been around for an extremely long time, maybe more than 5,000 years because of the cave paintings. The paintings consisted of animals and people with multiple legs and hands and heads, this was thought to have been a way to show to the individuals that the pictures are supposed to be in motion. There was also an earthen bowl that was discovered in Iran, which had multiple pictures of a goat all the way around the bowl, like the cave paintings, many people thought this was a way of expressing that the object should be in motion. Even though a series of pictures does not exactly called an animation, there wasn't any other way motion could be displayed during those times so that was taken into consideration. There were many more ‘animations’ done during those past years but I think it was still impressive that people new now to so animations before technology even existed. The first animation technique was invented, by accident by Georges Melies. He wanted to actually shoot a bus moving, when he broke his camera. When he fixed his camera, a hearse just passed the camera when the film was just running out. The end result was that he was able to transform the bus into a hearse. But he wasn't the only one that invented different techniques to do an animation; there was Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, J. Stuart Blackton and so on. These people actually made cartoons and motion pictures possible, but after people invented animation, software began evolving and now we can do animations at our own home if we have the software we can download it free on the internet.

There are many techniques of animation even to this day, some of them are: “Drawn on film animation: a technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, for example by Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage. Paint-on-glass animation: a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow drying oil paints on sheets of glass, for example by Aleksandr Petrov. Erasure animation: a technique using tradition 2D medium, photographed over time as the artist manipulates the image. For example, William Kenttidge is famous for his charcoal erasure films, and Piotr Dumala for his auteur technique of animating scratches on plaster. Pin Screen animation: makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows. The technique has been used to create animated films with a range of textural effects difficult to achieve with traditional cel animation. Sand Animations: sand is moved around on a back- or front-lighted piece of glass to create each frame for an animated film. This creates an interesting effect when animated because of the light contrast. Flip Book: A flip book (sometimes, especially in British English, called a flick book) is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books.”

Nowadays, we have computer animations because it is much easier and faster than drawing each frame by frame to perfection,but some people like drawing so they do that. But they first start doing it on a paper just to see the idea. Even now for our animations we are using the computers, it is much faster. Next thing in the investigation stage we had to create 3 animations, the stick-man, name and picture. All the animations had to include: ·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 This wasn't that difficult because my animation did almost have at least all that was required. This is the only page I used for the history on animation: [] and my dad helped me a little bit how to write this up i was confused how to write everything up in english the things that i know was in my head and i was going to write it but then i didn't know how to write it up in english so my dad helped me with that, the first part of the investigation and little thing on the investigation.

This is a very good website to see how and what story boarding is and it has a funny name :) http://www.floobynooby.com/IPUB/comp1.html you get many examples on this website..

My Design Specifications: For my design specifications, I am going to do all or trie to do it that was required because it was necessary and anything I might figure out how to do.

The things I am going to do for my final animation i will try to do all the necessary things with the exception of all the things I might want to add to my animation as I am doing it. Here is what I am going to do:

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

One of my transformations will probably just be pictures; the other would be like a small stick man but with pictures. The rest I think I can figure out as I go through with my creation. I will figure all this out during the design and create stage. I can’t think of any way to make my animation seem good while keeping the way I want it to look like. I will tried do do everything that i am planning to do I have a picture in my head but I don’t know if I can create my picture in my head into the computer. I might have to start again a few times, not only because I might change my mind, but because flash keeps closing and if I don’t constantly save I might lose all my work and that might a lot of I didn’t save a lot. So i have to save things in time and maybe if my dad allow´s me to download flash on the computer i will do it at home. I would just have to wait and see what I get in the end. I will work hard though, even though I'm not a big fan of ICT, that doesn't mean I don’t want to get good grades. I do have a few good tricks up my sleeve however that isn't a lot, just a couple that i think most people know already.

A way to test my final product is to ask a friend to watch the animations and ask them if it was good. also i would ask them if i could have done things better, if i needed to add things into it and how well it flows into the next part. it would help me understand what i have done well and what i need to improve on without getting graded on it, so i get a good grade when i finally hand it in. I would also ask an ICT teacher to tell me what i could've done better and what i did do better. I think this would help me because i would know what i could've done better and try to make it better. i will try to do everything like i have planed.

For my final animation I decided to do how we go to the place want to starting from the age of 9 or something around that age. It will start with a little kid walking to school(elementary, primary) with his/her friend.Then that will turn into a kid walking to school(secondary) around 12 age. That will turn into a young teen and she/he is taking the school bus to high school, then it will transform into a women/man driving to job. Then I will turn that into an old person who is no longer capable of driving, and has to go by taxi or some other public transport that would be effective for seniors to go by.

= My plan =

My designs
Design 1



Design 2


 * __ My Final Animation __**



This unit was enjoyable except for that part when I was struggling in the creation stage. I personally don’t think my animation had all the attributes I intended it to have. But it was much better than I thought, because I find making the animations confusing and a little bit hard, because i think i need a little more time to do the final animation but it is okei. I wonder how people are able to do animations and make it look like it is flowing.
 * My Creation Evaluation **

This unit was challenging in certain aspects, but I found out ways to go through those challenges. I put in a lot of work into this unit.

Well I think my investigation is good, because I’m new for that doing investigation and some other stuff in I.C.T. But I think I did a good job on it because I did do research on animation and how it was created. I had relevant information to help me get through this unit. I actually found a really good website that had every single aspect of animation it was called FloobyNooby. It’s a funny name but it actually is a good website. I used that website to know a little more about animation and story boarding and the following that is good to know for animation creation. There are pages and pages of examples of cartoons that go on TV. Also little snippets on how they designed each character. It helped me a lot because I got to see right and wrong positions for the character. Like SpongeBob (The line of Action) maybe it is not necessary to know that but I think it is a good example
 * __ Investigation: __**
 * The Example ** **of SpongeBob:**

For the practice animations, like the stick-man name and picture, I think I did well, on all animations, except the name animation. I didn't exactly have enough time. Only then did I understand that animation is actually time consuming and needs a lot of work to be perfected. You need a lot of talent to do a perfect animation, but that is something I don’t have, but I think I did do well in these animations. I also had design specifications that helped me choose which design I should choose. It is also like a guideline for my animations.

Overall in the investigation stage I think that I did pretty well, but I would have preferred not to choose my grade because I tend to underestimate myself without knowing it. But I actually think my grades could improve if I concentrated much more on the task in class as well as at home. I also think I did well here, because I had 3 designs and I had evaluations on all three. I could have made clearer designs though because I ended up changing a lot of things when creating my final. I put in a lot of effort considering. I chose the first design because it followed most of my design specifications, well close to it anyway. I in-cooperated a few ideas from my other designs into it, but now much because I wanted them to be a bit different but have the same message I want to put out. I could have made the designs a bit more realistic because they look like a 2 year old did them. It wasn't very clear and it was a bit sloppy.
 * __ Design: __**

I did compare the designs to my design specifications because i think it is a good way to know which design to choose.

I'm really not good with plans, but i think i did a good job on this one. As I really tried to go into details about what would be happening during the different stages in this unit. I believe that my plan was well thought out. If I had gone into detail about exactly what I would be doing in terms of my creation on the different days, I may have achieved the maximum level. I only talked about the progress I will have liked to make and not what actual part of the creation I would want to be at.
 * __ Plan: __**

What other people think of my creation:
 * Creation Evaluation **

Dewmi:I like it, but the words are little small , mabey it is good to do it in power point Tana:i like the animation. just that the words were a bit small, so i gave advise to make them bigger or thicker

And i totally agree with them. But i don't think i will be able to do that because this should be done today. Well i think i did a good job on half on the part of my final animation. To be honest i think i didn't follow my design specific at all. But when i looked through what i had done, i didn't like it, the topic wasn't right. I was going to fix my final animation but the time was going fast and we didn't have many lessons left, so i just needed to stick with the one that i have already done and try to make it look good. So i think the beginning of my animation is not good but somewhere in the middle and end is better.

I think that I did a good job of my creation. Against the design specifications I did very well as I was constantly checking them. I managed to have backgrounds that changed into other backgrounds. I think my backgrounds were consistent and they flowed into one another, well one after the other quite well.
 * Against the design specifications **

I had many layers that I named. So it was organized. The layers were well arranged because then I could show what I did and how long it was. I wasn't sure how to make my animation 12 frames per second, but I think my animation had a considerable speed. Even when the writing was coming up, I tried to keep them up so that people could read them..

I had morphing images, which was a good touch because I wasn't exactly focusing on that. While I was doing the animation, I found out a secret helpful tool that fades images or objects in and out; explodes certain things; adds drop shadows; and so on. It really helped to make my animation flow better, and it was actually pleasing to see that it worked out.

Even though I used pictures, I did have a lot of colors that made it attractive for people to watch. Also I had a lot of text, but it was arranged so that people could read it and then see what is happening. The text also stayed on the screen for a reasonable amount of time so that the people could read it without rushing too much. Also the test didn't exactly overshadow the actual animation so it worked out well. I achieved all my design specifications, but I did do extra special effects that I found out during my practice animations. I was really proud that I could do that because creation in ICT doesn't come easily to me. In any unit I struggle in ICT, but I usually end up doing well.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> I also didn't follow my designs at all after i got started and that was mainly because I thought the topic I was doing didn’t make sense, and I wanted my animation to be interesting. So I tried to change it but the time wasn’t in of for me.

<span style="font-family: 'Euphemia','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">I believe that I did a good job but I believe that there could be lots of improvements. I think that my animation could have been better if I had invested more time into learning how to do even more very cool effects that can be done in Flash and spend more time on it. Had I done this I would have managed to make it really eye catching. I also believe that I could have invested more time into my animation and tried to think out of the box in terms of layout of the whole things. As for my animation I think that if I had tried to actually draw my people and backgrounds, I would have gotten a much better grade. But because of the time limit I couldn't figure out how to do many things on Flash. I also think that moving I could have used fewer words and tried to find pictures that represent that sentence or phrase. For the next time that we do animation, if we are still using flash I really want to take extra time to make sure that I learn how to do really cool things and make a really good, long animation. I will also look into other forms of animation like stop-motion. This really stood out to me the most.
 * Improvements that can be made **

<span style="font-family: 'Euphemia','sans-serif';">I think that my creation evaluation is detailed and has relevant reflections in it. I think that I did quite well, but I couldn’t have finished in time. That is my only concern.
 * Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: 'Euphemia','sans-serif';">For the evaluation stage I think that I did very well, because I covered all that was necessary, and it was descriptive and very detailed. I had put in a lot of effort so that I can get a good grade, but I think that I could have added about a bit of images from the animations that I have done, so that I could evaluate on them. Like print screen images so I can show you what I did and what I could have done instead if something in the animations didn’t work or something like that.

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