Alessandro+Gentili+unit+3

=TITLE: UNIT 3 SYSTEM LIFE CYCLE=

The problem is to animate yourself changing mentally or physically over time through out your life. I have to solve how my body changes over time through out my life. these attributes will include: > = =
 * __Identify the problem__**
 * __Physical changes:__**
 * muscle change
 * size
 * strength
 * hair
 * skin
 * height
 * weight
 * mortar skills
 * appearance


 * __Mental changes__**
 * more emotions
 * feelings
 * reasoning
 * thinking
 * understanding

__**Animation:**__ Animation is a series of pictures or drawing that when drawn multiple times with small changes can make a moving picture. Animation is more commendably used as drawings that in computer graphics. A lot of old kids t.v shows were a series of drawings put into the t.v very quickly to make a moving picture with added sound. Animation has been around for thousands of years. scientist have discoverd old animation attempts on a vase in Iran. Since people in Iran did not have the means of technology it can't be called animation with the true meaning of the word. Animation the word comes from the Latin // animātiō //, "the act of bringing to life"; from // animō // ("to animate" or "give life to") + // -ātiō // ("the act of") thus bringing in the moving picture or also known as cartoons. Animation is a rapid display of pictures thus creating the illusion of movement. The most common way it is is done is by a computer program of a picture series __**Animation Software:**__ =__There are many types and techniques of animation here are some of them:__= > = =
 * Traditional animation
 * limited animation
 * rotoscoping
 * live/action animation
 * stop motion
 * puppet animation
 * puppetoon
 * clay animation
 * cutout animation
 * silhouette animation
 * model animation
 * go motion
 * object animation
 * graphic animation
 * brick film
 * pixilation
 * computer animation
 * 2D animation
 * 3D animation
 * drawn on film animation
 * paint on glass animation
 * erasure animation
 * pin screen animation
 * sand animation
 * flip book

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__**design Brief:**__ I am going to make moving animation on how I have been changing physically and mentally through out my life.

__**Design specifications:**__ __**Tests:**__ __**Why are these points important:**__
 * It needs to be colourful
 * it need to show how changing affects my social background.
 * it has to keep the viewers attention.
 * it should show my changes over time
 * 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
 * Get five people to watch the animation and get them to compare what they saw to the design specifications
 * see if has colourhjhjbhn
 * see if my social background is changing
 * see if it keep the viewers attention
 * see if it shows me changing over time.
 * the animation needs to be colourful so that when the viewer looks at the animation it looks nice.
 * the animation needs to show my social background so that not only do you see me changing but my social interactions as well.
 * The animation needs to keep the viewers attention

=Animation investigation part 2= Here is a stick man walking and jumping! =media type="file" key="walking stick man.swf" width="360" height="270"=

Here is a moving word! media type="file" key="moving buble word.swf" width="360" height="270"

Here is a cute puppy turning into a wolf media type="file" key="wolf.swf" width="360" height="270"

=__**Tests:**__= Get more than one person to test my creation on the following to see weather or not they can see these things:

=__design__= design 1:

Design 2:

Design 3:

=__Design:__= I choose design number 3 because I think it best shows how people change through out their lives. I will also incorporate some other story boards from designs 1 and 2. I will be making my final assessment by morphing each picture into each other from baby to toddler and toddler to teen and son on. Each design will have lots of colour and increases and decreases in size moving backgrounds and moving figures.

=__**Plan:**__= =**__Create:__**= media type="file" key="Animation project.swf" width="360" height="270"
 * 1)Basic animation of creation and starting page has to be done by the 25/2/2013 on flash document.**
 * 2)By the 26//2/2013 the start of the animation has to be done with moving characters and some speech.**
 * 3)By the 4/3/2013 I will be moved on the the next stage of the animation to where the baby is older and more grown up.** There was no school Monday there for this part is going to be done by the 5/3/2013.
 * 4)By the 5/3/2013 the animation will be in adulthood and the animation will only have two more stage to go.** Falling behind work due to loss of one day at school the rest will be worked on at home.
 * 5)By the 6/3/2013 the animation will be in elderly stage and dead man.**
 * 6)By the 8/3/2013 the animation will be finished and ready to present.**

=__**Evaluation:**__= My overall design took some time to do and a lot of effort was put in. but against my design specifications i think i would give it a 6 because it missed some of the 9 specifications I questioned some classmates in my own time to see what they thought and some of them agreed with me that my design did not have a morphing image and it sort of had a moving background. I could of improved my design by learning how to incorporate a moving background and also learn how to make a morphing image.

__**Classmates evaluation of my creation:**__ On average my classmates who replied to my email gave me a 4.2 out of 10 due to the lack of bright colours and a morphing image and also due to the soul fact that my animation did not socially interact with anything.

__**Improvements:**__ To improve my animation i could make the animation flow more freely making the animation look more realistic and i could of spent more time in the detail of the of the stick animation and I could of made him talk and chat to friends and interact. I could have added more physical attributes by maybe making an exercise pattern change as he grows older.

__**Overall**__ **__Achievement:__**

I think this unit may have not been my best out of the two I have done due to lack of skill and effort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
 * __sources__ **__ **:** __

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-animation.htm