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.    

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.

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is a picture of someones face and sometimes a background and the full body like when you take pictures with your family you would take family portraits for maybe christmas cards or special times when you family comes for dinner or a special occasion. It can relate to a profile view and silhouetting by a profile is like a picture of someones face but only seen on one side but it's still a picture of a face. Silhouetting is related because it is an image of an animal, person, or an object in a scene that represents a solid shape or singular color. All of it relates by a profile being a picture of someones side of their face, silhouetting being a picture of animals ,people , and sometimes objects but each of them mean a picture of a persons face.

Double exposures are created in photoshop by taking a couple pictures of textures and a profile of someones face and you use the dodge tool in photoshop to outline your face in white so you can make it into a multi exposure picture also so you can see texture in the background

Finished 

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HDR Photography

HDR Photography is a layer of multiple pictures and it makes the lights and darks come out and makes the picture more vibrant with bright lights and dark shadows. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. What I like about HDR is that it makes the pictures I take stand out and it makes my pictures I take look more nicer. If I were to take a picture of a really dark picture HDR takes multiple and   makes the dark picture even out to look better than the original. What I dislike about it is that some times the picture doesn't turn out to be what I wanted and I can't control  what color I want to stand out unless I do it in photo shop.

You can create an HDR image by taking multiple pictures of the same thing and opening up Photoshop to layer them and then you can change the functions and settings to make it look unique and realistic. It is different from automatic because the automatic one you can't customize it unlike the step by step one you can create it to your own taste of colors and style.

What I was thinking for my pictures were I was wanting to make the sky look a brilliant blue and make the colors stand out so I wanted to make it unreal. 

Proactive or Procrastination?

I believe I am a procrastinator. Sometimes I am a procrastinator by not keeping up with things and putting it off to the last minute and get stressed about it the next day because I don't have it done and then I can't even sleep at night because I'm worried and paranoid about not being able to finish the next day.When the next day comes and nobody mentions it to me I tend to forget a lot of things and go on with my day. It usually comes back at me and then I'm slammed with all the work that I have.

My level of productivity relates to me by when I have work to do I would do a little bit of it and then I would go and do other things but my problem is that I put things off till the last minute and I get stressed out. My amount of free time doesn't relate to me by when I am not consistent with my work. I tend to dillydally a lot like I said I'm not consistent with anything really. Sometimes I don't do things because I'm overwhelmed with it and I get uncomfortable

I would like to change my habits by getting things done right away and not putting it off to the last minute and getting it done right away. I would also try to be more proactive and try to get things finished on time or a little earlier than the deadline is due. Some of my habits are forgetting things and procrastinating alot of the time thinking I have all the time in the word. I think I can become proactive but I know only I can change who I am and who I want to be.

back to shool

My favorite moments so far are Art and GT. In art we are practicing drawing and starting mandalas(P.S I don't think I like mine very much). When I first started school I was nervous and didn't know what to do. Honestly Art and GT are my favorite subjects and I don't want to do anything other than these subjects every day. In GT we are of course starting blog writing and still trying to figure out how to use this mouse(it's actually like a pad and pen) it works differently and is weird in a good way though. 

What I want to do to be successful this year is to keep up with my work and try to get at least A's and B's. I think I'm doing good so far but honestly for the future I do not want to fall behind because I get stressed and then get really nervous and don't even want to go to these places anymore because it turns my stomach inside out when I walk inside.I will try to do my best and I think I have the potential to do it to I just sometimes need a little support from other people to get myself motivated to go on.

My Visual Poem