Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Animation Outtakes



    In our new animation project we had to pick our own teammates and make an animation based on their life or life experiences. Our animation is Farmers support community. My teammates are Daileen, Michael, and Zephen. Some interesting facts are that Daileen is a farmer, Michael moved here from florida, and Zephen plays football and soccer. 

So stop motion animation is when for example someone is walking the person has to take a step and you take a picture then they take another step you also take a picture then you repeat the process until you have about maybe ten pictures then you can play it on the camera or put it in photoshop to animate it. After you have it all set up you can play your animation and it looks as if the person is just sliding across the screen. If you saw the bouncing ball int he beginning of this post that is a GIF. A GIF is when in this case the ball is bouncing across the screen you have to make it in photoshop so you separate the sky from the ground the you make a ball you would the have to make a new slide and move the ball slightly and you would repeat the process until the ball moves completely out of the screen or it can roll back down a hill.


 In our animation we are telling the story about how farmers like Daileen support the community and the process of growing and caring for the plants. I believe that people should take this into consideration because of the fact that there are many GMO crops. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms these are when the plants are man made  and they make the foods look bigger but to be honest they natural ones aren't pumped with chemicals and they taste better so that's why you should care about the crops and for your own safety of eating the chemicals.    


Monday, April 27, 2015

Our Animation story




    Recently we have been assigned a new project and we had to make an animation plus we also had to work with people that we never worked with before. My teammates are Daileen, Michael, and Zephen. Our story is on how farming supports the agriculture and the communities. For our animations we chose to do stop motion and animating in photoshop and stykz animation. In our animation Daileen is caring for the plants and getting ready to harvest after that she would take it to the market to sell with her family.

    Some lessons that the audience would learn is that " Hard work pays off ". This means that when for example when my team and it took time and effort to make our animation project . I believe that people will enjoy our little animation we had a lot of fun making it and of course it was totally worth it. In the animation we all took some footage and Daileen was the one who edited it and Michael made the animation  in stykz. Zephen and I made the white board animation of the kealia farm market.

    Some of the teams best moments were when we finally got some stop motion animation done that was a huge relief and to honest we took a lot of photos but some of it was we were playing around and having fun we actually put some of pictures that we were playing around in the animation it worked out well and we were the 2nd team to turn in our animation. Some of the worst moments as a team is when nobody could film for the whole week and we were freaking out until we took some last minute photos and well it worked out better than we thought. Some other amazing moments as a team are that we actually never had anything planned out until last minute and it worked out pretty well.