Today is my final lesson for the animation and assignment i have been trying to upload the animation at school. We have received an upload extension from tonight to Sunday night which is great because i have time to upload correctly and finalise my animation.
JOINED TOGETHER BY GIMP
Details for Dobson dragon animation
NAME: Dobson Dragon
TYPE: GIF image
SIZE: 18.0 MB
DIMENSIONS: 500 times 500 pixels
REASON FOR MY SELECTION: I chose to do an animation based on the House dobson maskot which is the dragon. The dragon symbolises strength and the ability to succed and win. The Dragon which i created is purple and as it challenges all of the other house colours and as a result it gains a star of the colour of the house beaten on its tail. The Dragon posses many skills and powers which help it succed. These inclued: amnesia dust, spiral fire, and spiral balls. My Reason fo rselection of this animation is basically because it is a simpl,e animation whic i found a little chanlleging at times but i managed to finish it and i am very happy with the result.
I used the program gimp to put my frames together into one motion this allows me not to click the arrow for the next frame. I uploaded the video to google docs and the URL under frame rate.
FRAMES: 244
FRAME RATE: 70 milliseconds
APPLICATION USED TO CREATE FRAMES: Inkscape
APPLICATION USED TO PUT FRAMES TOGETHER : Gimp 2
APPLICAION USED TO UPLOAD ANIMATION: Google docs.
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwhjQzz8O7QiMjg2ZTg4NGEtM2IxZS00YzNjLThkNzgtM2ZjYzM2Y2I0MmI1&hl=en
hope you enjoy!! :)
Friday, March 26
Entries ;)
24th March 2010
Today was my last lesson with Mr Lenon to ask questions and finalise ideas by him if we had unsure changes. I hope that i have done enough in this lesson to make sure i can submit my animation by friday night. I have completed 112 frames now and have a couple more frames to complete. I am happy with my progress but i only have a 3 more days before due date :D
25th March 2010
Today is my last night to finalise any finishing touches on the animationa nd also finish the blog polishing as all work will be marked. I have done 160 frames now and almost finished . Mr lennon has organised a lunchtime for us to go in the IST rooms and finalise our animation and upload it so i have to finish my animation by tomorrow lunchtime.
Today was my last lesson with Mr Lenon to ask questions and finalise ideas by him if we had unsure changes. I hope that i have done enough in this lesson to make sure i can submit my animation by friday night. I have completed 112 frames now and have a couple more frames to complete. I am happy with my progress but i only have a 3 more days before due date :D
25th March 2010
Today is my last night to finalise any finishing touches on the animationa nd also finish the blog polishing as all work will be marked. I have done 160 frames now and almost finished . Mr lennon has organised a lunchtime for us to go in the IST rooms and finalise our animation and upload it so i have to finish my animation by tomorrow lunchtime.
Tuesday, March 23
Journal entriess- (from different datess)
I had forgotten my password for the blogger account and was un sure on how to change the password and i started doing my journal entries on a spare word document and i have figured out how to change the pasword today and i have copied my previous entries.
14 March 2010
This lesson i have been trying to decide upon which program to use to make my animation. While deciding i had to take a few thoughts on each program. The two programs which i was going to choose upon are Paint and Inkscape. I descided to complete to simple animations in each program and decide which one i prefer.
Paint
On Paint i animated a ball rolling down a hill and then back up the hill and down again. This program consists of two layers a Vector Layer and a Bitmap Layer. The Vector Layer is the layer where the animated object is to be placed as you can move anything in this Layer. The Bitmap layer is the layer which the background is placed as this is where the unmoved unchanged background would be place. In my case i inserted the Ball in the Vector layer and The hill on the Bitmap Layer. I experienced many difficulty in trying to make the ball roll down the hill in a smooth motion therfore as a result the animation did not come out as great as i ahd imagined. I have not figured out a way to upload my animatioon from paint yet.
Inkscape:
Next i made an animation of a Dog moving its tongue and a ball bouncing beside it. To create this animation i exported single images in the format of png into a file with all the animations and as i changed a new part of the image i would export the image into the same file. I found this an easier way to create animation then pencil as there were no frames and the tools were more in quantity then pencil giving me a good variety of choice. This is myt animation url: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwhjQzz8O7QiNjg1MGIwNGItN2M2Mi00MDQ2LWE3MmYtN2M4OTg1ZTc1MzE3&hl=en
In the final descision i chose to use the program Inkscape as i found it easier to make a fine and flowing animation with a wide variety of tools rather then just limited with frames and a few tools. And also it was easier to move objects and spin them.
The instrucions for using Inkscape for animation are :
The today i have been brainstorming some ideas to do my animation on. In the brainstorm i came across ideas based on a purple animal as i am in the house dobson. The animals which i thought of doing included, Dolphin, Dragon, Cat, Dog, Shark. The pictures of these animals were as
follows. 
While choosing Which animal to do i took carefull considertion on
Coolock: 4 leaf clover bunches Mercedes:a Bat Ryan : Pig Claire: Butterfly
14 March 2010
This lesson i have been trying to decide upon which program to use to make my animation. While deciding i had to take a few thoughts on each program. The two programs which i was going to choose upon are Paint and Inkscape. I descided to complete to simple animations in each program and decide which one i prefer.
Paint
On Paint i animated a ball rolling down a hill and then back up the hill and down again. This program consists of two layers a Vector Layer and a Bitmap Layer. The Vector Layer is the layer where the animated object is to be placed as you can move anything in this Layer. The Bitmap layer is the layer which the background is placed as this is where the unmoved unchanged background would be place. In my case i inserted the Ball in the Vector layer and The hill on the Bitmap Layer. I experienced many difficulty in trying to make the ball roll down the hill in a smooth motion therfore as a result the animation did not come out as great as i ahd imagined. I have not figured out a way to upload my animatioon from paint yet.
Inkscape:
Next i made an animation of a Dog moving its tongue and a ball bouncing beside it. To create this animation i exported single images in the format of png into a file with all the animations and as i changed a new part of the image i would export the image into the same file. I found this an easier way to create animation then pencil as there were no frames and the tools were more in quantity then pencil giving me a good variety of choice. This is myt animation url: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwhjQzz8O7QiNjg1MGIwNGItN2M2Mi00MDQ2LWE3MmYtN2M4OTg1ZTc1MzE3&hl=en
In the final descision i chose to use the program Inkscape as i found it easier to make a fine and flowing animation with a wide variety of tools rather then just limited with frames and a few tools. And also it was easier to move objects and spin them.
The instrucions for using Inkscape for animation are :
- Set background coulour of Canvas.
- Size canvas to 400 by 400 pixle
- Save drawing program (____.svg)
- Create and use one folder for your files.
16th March 2010
The today i have been brainstorming some ideas to do my animation on. In the brainstorm i came across ideas based on a purple animal as i am in the house dobson. The animals which i thought of doing included, Dolphin, Dragon, Cat, Dog, Shark. The pictures of these animals were as
follows. 
While choosing Which animal to do i took carefull considertion on 
the difficulty of the creation. I also took into consideration my creativity and the idea of challenging myself.
I had an idea to create a dolphin and make the dolphin swim in the water making splashes of dolphin but i saw this as beeing too easy ,so i decided to challenge my self by making a dragon and the storyline in Dobson Dragon defeating each animal from all of the other houses.I then brainstormed the animals to use for each house and started to create my dinosaur.
- Caritas: Bee
19 March (ANIMATION PROCESS) 2010
Today i have started to create my animation. I started by looking for a peaceful background on googl ean di found this imag
e and decided to make that my backgournd. I started to creact my dinosaur and i diant want it to be scary but a a cute dinosaur. I had a few difficulties with the tool such as objects moving in umwanted positons and wrong grouping but afetr a while i figured it out and was able to finishthe image. My final design for the dino
saur is:
I started to do all of my pictures and exported them it took a long time to complete one picture but i have now done the first 37 frames which i amhappy with. This is my first frame. As i completed each frame i exported the frames in the format into my file called "ANIMATION DOBSON" and exported each frame as a png image and i will continue to do this for the following frames to come.
22 March (PROCCESS OF ANIMATION) 2010
The past lessons and at home i have been completing more and more frames for my Dobson animation. I have Now completed 77 frames and have a long way to go but i am using my class time wisely to complete them. I made 3 of the animals today the Bee , snake and pig and continued on with my animating.
PROBLEM:for some strange reason whenever i open my document on inkscape the background pictures appears to be gone and it says "Image not found" as i did the frames i had to copy and paste the background into the image and this may have caused my animation background to look like it is moving. I asked sir and he said that the image format could not be supported so i had to put the image onto paint and paste it into inkscape. After that the background is still appearing. :D
23rd March 2010
Todays lesson in IST i continued with my animation and i have done some frames at home the night before so today i have done an extra 20 frames in class giving me a total of 92 frames now i am up to when the snake is in the animation i am now half way through my animation :D
Thursday, March 4
Painting Tools
A paint program is a program which edits bitmapped images. These bitmap images are composed of individual pixels.
There are many programs which are available to use on paint. These are the tools and a description of what they do:
Free form select: This tool allows you to choose a specific part of your painting, this part can be of any shape and you can select around the specific parts. Then you can copy or paste the object .
Select:The select tool allows you to select an object. When you select this object you are able to copy, paste,rotate, flip etc.
Eraser: The Eraser tool allows you to erase any unwanted parts of your artwork.When you erase you are able to choose the colour of the eraser this is convenient because if you have a coloured background and erase with the original white eraser the colour which will appear is the original white of the original background. You can do this by pressing right click on your mouse to one of the colours.
Fill: The fill tool fills the colour of your drawn inclosed object to any colour of your choice.
Pick Colour: The pick colour tool allows you you to get the exact coulour you want by selecting it the colour you desire to paint with.
Magnifier: This tool allows you to magnify the page so that you have a close view of what you are drawing to get an accurate drawing or colour on you object.
Pencil: This tool allows you to draw or write with a free hand format. You can use this tool to draw objects or lines that are not available as a tool on Paint Program.
Brush: Allows you you to paint the colour onto the canvas just as pencil tool provides but it allows you to choose the brush style and it is a darker colour.
Air Brush: This tool allows you to Spray the paint colour onto the canvas and you can choose the co thickness of the spray and size.
Text: The text tool allows you to write text and you can choose the font, size and the style.
Line: This tool allows you to draw a straight line whether it be vertical, horizontal or diagnal.
Curve: This tool allows you to draw lines as smooth curvy lines.
Rectangle: This tool allows to draw the shape of rectangles of all shapes and sizes. To make the side in propotion you can press the button shift.
Polygon: This tool allows you to draw any two dimensional shapes and if you want a realistic shape you can make the degrees and angles in proportion by pressing shift.
Ellipse: This tool allows you to draw ellipses and circles and you can ajust the size and shape to you desire. You can make the ellipse into proportion by pressing shift on your key board.
Rounded rectangles: This tool allows you to draw rectangles but instead of the perpendicular pointy edge they are curved out smooth edges hence the the name rounded rectangle.
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