This video above is an animation of trees and a ballon using adobe photoshop and adobe aftereffects. this form of animation is called multilane because it uses multiple planed to create a 3D effect on the images. we first had to create our scene in adobe photoshop then move it into adobe aftereffect and began our animation. the multilane animation is used to crate a 3D effect with background layers. an example that Walt Disney created is when bambe is walking through the forest the background layers move at different speeds because things closer to you move faster than things farther away.
how did we make ours
Fist off we had to come up with an idea mine happens to be a forest just like Disney's movie. we had to take the normal screen size 1920 X 1080 and boosted it to 10000 X 1080, so that we could animate the trees moving at different speeds and with the boosted the screen length we where able to add more off screen so that I looks like the animation is moving. then we drew out the layers and added things like shading, burn, light, gradients, and details so that the animation would look more realistic and add more of a 3D effect to the animation.
Our group me, Mason, Miles, and Emma decided that even though they had an interesting summer I had a summer that would get the viewer viewers attention and that I had the most B role. This project ONW 1 in 2000 was a converse journalism about s group members summer.
Some things that our group had to prepare for before we even touched the camera for example, we first had to find who had the most interesting summer vacation, after this we create 21 questions that the interviewer would ask the interviewee, then we created roles for each person in the group, mason was the interviewer, I was the interviewee, miles was the camera man, and Emma was dealt cinematographer.
I had the most interesting summer I was being interviewed. I learned allot from this role, for example I learned that moving around too much can have a really bad effect on screen after editing. I also earned that we need to check if the camera is picking up sound before we start filming, we did not.
Things that I learned was that the camera needs to be white balanced and checked for sound before you start recording. also on adobe premier pro don't cut out that much because otherwise you will have a bunch of cuts and it looks really bad.
I could tell that our group had some trouble with the five guaranties because I noticed on the first day that miles likes to be the group leader and plan out everything, mason doesn't care that much, and Emma does not like to help as a team member. I asked Emma, and mason multiple times if they had any good ideas for location, questions, and better ideas. so this kinda pulled us together at moments when needed.
I liked how my video ended up at the end, but I would change my group members for some of the reasons listed above. something that I will make sure to do next time is check the white balance and make sure the audio is being recorded. this put our group 2 day behind on editing.
Something that I would keep the same is our groups work ethic because I would say that we were always trying to be on task and on time. we also worked together really well once we started to film and we where all on the same page, thats when we started to use the five guarantees.
This sounds really repetitive but things I defiantly would remember is white balance and audio. but then I know that it is important to remember the reflexion sheet so that can improve on the things I messed up on this time. for example one of the things that made my video look really bad the first time is all of the jump cuts and that I could've covered them up with b roll or graphics.
I liked how my re edit came out and I wish that I would have done it in the first place. or if we weren't missing audio I could've had more time to make the first video look really professional. I think that this was a fun project that really opend up my eyes on things that Ecomm students can create.
Friday, October 6, 2017
robot animation
overview-
our class project was to draw a "character" that has at least two legs and arms on a pice of paper. then after I created my robot we went over the edge of it with sharpie or something noticablel in adobe photoshop. then in adobe photoshop we cleaned up and added some details like dodge, burn, color, and folds to make the robot look 3d. then our final steps was to import the .psd file into adobe after effects and began to animate like the inch worm.
what I learned
I learned allot of new things with the this animation for example, most of my other animations do not have the. dodge and burn. I liked this two tools because they helped everything 3D, really cleaned up the animation.
what went we'll
things that went well where animation like on the final steps. I guess just because I have had allot of practice using adobe after effects. something that did not go well was adobe photoshop and designing the character mainly because I could not think of something to draw. then using adobe photoshop I had hard time cleaning up some of the black lines.
our in class projects was to animate a inch worm move across the screen just like a normal worm. what we first had to do was crate the sky, ground, and worm using adobe premier pro. then once we crated where down with things like shadows, gradients, and touchup spots we moved the premier pro files of the worm into adobe photoshop so that it can be animated. we learned how to use new tools like the puppet pin tool, keyframes, and the burn tool so that we could animate the worm.
what I learned
I kinda mentioned new things that I learned above like getting a better understanding of the keyframes, puppet tool, and burn tool sir that we could touchup spots on the worm and make it look more of a 3d shape than circles moving across a flat plane. I would say that the newest thing that I learned would be the puppet pin tool and I also think that it was the mot important tool during this entire animation.
how it went
I don't really know why but I had some trouble with this animation and I could not figure out why because I had to end up restarting the entire animation three times because adobe photoshop keeps on crashing. and the only other problem I ran into was the puppet pin tool was difficult and I did not like how to log during the animation but looks good at the end I guess.
our class was to create a bouncing ball animation a using adobe after effects. what we first had to do was create the background, sky, grass, and a bouncing ball. we also made a project like this in e9 but this bonging ball was created in another adobe software and then moved int adobe after effects to be animated witch was very different and we had to learn allot of new things to help animate the ball look more realistic and bounce better.
things I learned
some things that I learned while using adobe after effects where almost the entire animation because its a kinda new platform for me because I have never animated using adobe aftereffects. the biggest thing that I learned how to do was using the keyframes for rotation, shape, and time. these where important to learn because in the animation there are things like when the ball is going down and it has to rotate and move at the same time, so key frames are very important to learn in after effects.
how'd it go for me
I think that my bouncing ball was really good because on day one we put together the ball on aftereffects and I thought that this was going to be a really weird looking animation and that mine was going to be bad compered to the other students but in the end mine was really good and I am happy with it.
Our group decided that we would make a procedures video that showed students that they should not line up at the door before the bell rings. we decided that we would make this procedures video to show other student that lining up at the door only saved 2 seconds at most. as a group we all gathered around each other and crated the story board, it was weird because all of us had the same idea planed out in our head to make a good video.
crating the cast list was really easy because miles and I did not care what parts we got but mason wanted to be the camera man, that how we gout our cast. my role was an actor I guess because miles had the story board and I just did what he told me to. tenically I was kinda like the secondary camera man that would check to see if the camera was positioned for things like rule of thirds, six shot system, and not to cross the axis. I would say that I was very professional during this experience because whenever the group went to a moment of silence I would get the group talking again so that we could communicate better. I made sure to collaborate with my team members when we where making the story bored and casting a group. and also this was not a problem with the group because we all had food time management.
I don't think that I would change anything because our group was really good at getting a good video on time and together.
1. write about group product and presentation, website, graphic design, video and animation that you made. our project was a teleporting backpack that would teleport the user to wherever they wanted, called the tele-pack. our project took us all of the 4th quarter to make with all of the animations, graphics, and commercial. all of these things together used up all of the quarter to make the tele-pack. some challenges that we faced where things like the animations not being long enough or did not look as we oped in the end. for example in the animation their is a big black scene that takes up the entire screen and we could not remove this from the final product, so that was a disappointment. I personally learned that it is harder to work as a group than on your own and this is how life is in the workforce. because sometimes my group did not want to do things my way or fix things that did not-
look good n the final product. some feed back that we where given during the final presentation is that you should not be nervous when presenting your product and that we should have removed the black scene in the presentation. some things that we changes when we got our feed back is we all practiced our parts over night and this relived some of the stress that the group was having. my opinion about quarter 4 is that i would have much rather done this on my own because I do not like having to work with other people and do things that they want done.
2. how did you use your time in class this quarter?
I used my class time very well, i got my part of the project finished on time. I never was sitting down and day reaming I was always wondering on how I could make things either look, sound, or run smoother (example is the flylo logo I added onto the original to make it look better) I think that I used my time in class very productively. when I would finish my parts early I would go over and look at other peoples work to see how far we are and then i would sit and think about how we could make my parts of the product batter so I never really finished early I got things done on time and on schedule. what do i do outside of class to help my productivity in class? for some time I had scketchup at my house, and I would go home and mess around on it trying to see what type of stuff that I could make and how could I make this at school.
3. what are my strengths and an employee or e-comunications student after one year ?
like I said in number 2 I would go home after school and used what I learned in class to see if i could make something better and then go to school and add on to the original. my best strength during this project and e-com was the animations. I don't know why I find this so much fun but I liked using scketchup and making the house animation.
4. what are the areas in need of improvement?
something that I need improvement is on the web design because I had no idea how to even start the website. but luckily noell knew how to do that stuff. so I really need get better at making the websites for a latter class in the future. on the right is a screen shot from the website that noell designed.
5. summary
I loved most about this semester was creating a product and doing a shark tank presentation. I just thought that this was really cool and fun to do as a group and would not mind doing this again. something that I would change or do different was the animation and the commercial because during the animation there is a black scene and I hatted that and still do and in the commercial I had it that mason would fade out of the scene and I thought it looked cool but Kevin would not allow us to have this in a commercial and this has made me mad. overall learning experience is that this is how it will be in real life when I get a job there will be people that i have to work around or even meet their needs to ensure a good work life for everyone. final thoughts is that I liked this final and I don't want to sound like I am nagging on them but I did not like how mason and Kevin where not helping the team (more mason than Kevin) because that left me and noell having to do a little more than the others. I still liked this project even with all the setbacks and mistakes that we have had.
