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| Front Animation pic. |
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| The cutout. |
What's up guys, if you're not in G.T class here's a quick recap of what we're doing: we are animating ourselves and making more GIF's! ( I'll explain how to make one later. ) I have to describe myself in this paragraph so... here we go. I'm just that kid who's randomly smiling, I have a theatrical personality, I love the stage! and I can be dramatic in a joking way. To be honest, I can be loud, but I'm really outgoing, kind, strong, confident, and brave. Usually I'm the one asking the teacher a question that my friends have. Another part of my personality is I like experiencing new things and I can adapt pretty easily to anything. (Ex: Dancing, sports, traveling, singing) and I have a creative personality, I love art, and photo shoots are the best! Being active is something I just have to do... If I'm not doing any sports or no after school activities at all then I don't feel good and I get REALLY bored. I can be helpful, but sometimes I'm REALLY clumsy. I'm kinda a perfectionist too, for example; when I go to sleep it drives me crazy if my pillow isn't straight. ( Even though when I wake up It's crooked and I'm fine with it. ) but the weird thing is sometimes I'm a perfectionist and most of the time I'm not, It just depends on the subject. Sometimes I can get excited or A.K.A Fangirl... Yet end the end I'm just this adventurous girl who's up for anything.
While animating our characters are going to be exaggerated a LOT! For my character I want to exaggerate my theatrical personality, so you might see me doing big motions and big steps. I also want to have my animation be sleek and smooth, so you definitely won't be seeing any jumpy movements or me teleporting from one place to another.... unless that's my super power! I'll also be animating some of my clusmy-ness so I might be randomly stumbling or dropping stuff. My character will also be a little funny but somewhat real looking. I really want to animate me flying or doing tricks I can't do in real life so maybe I'll become a ninja...You'll never know! I can create this by frantically rushing and making my character do some wacky stuff.
Now I've been talking a lot about what kind of person I am and what you'll see in my gif, so now I should talk about how to make the actual gif right? First up you'll have to get a buddy and have them take a picture straight in front of you. Our class did it behind the green screen so it will be easier to cut out. Don't take your picture in front of something that blends in with your clothes unless you want a hard time editing. In the picture you should pose with your arms stretched out to the side and your forearms dangling like your about to do the robot. Next upload the picture to photoshop and use the quick selection tool. ( If you have no experience with that tool I linked a video down below 'cause
I know you'd probably watch then read. ) Just select your body and zoom in to make sure you didn't include the background, and if you do just use the minus select tool and cover it out. Now you have a cut out of yourself! Ok so now your gonna crop your picture just till you have a little bit of space above your head and feet. Then open animation, add a couple of frames, use the move tool to move your character. I started off with y Remember each movement equals a frame, so don't make it jumpy. Next is the puppet warp! Basically click on the tool and click on all joints, then hold down and move it where ever you want. By the way, each time you make a change with puppet warp, you need to do it on different layer or else that change will apply to each frame. ( I suggest labeling the layers under which frame the change was made on ) After making yourself do some wacky things (or in my case a doing a bell kick ) Ok were almost done, now select all of your entrance frames, copy them, put them at the end and reverse it. Lastly pick any background either that you took or from google, drag it into your work space and expand it to fit the whole frame. So now your character enters does a little dance and exit!
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| My gif! |
Congrats if you actually read all of this. Overall I do like my animation because
its fun to make and you can get pretty creative with it. Make sure to check out the links I said I'd put down here! Bye! -Kaile
Hey guys Here's some of my favorite (G.T) photos that i've took this past year, Don't mind Mele over there.. It's just random
So far Animation has been HARD our deadline is today so during recess and lunch everyone is rushing into G.T hoping to get their project finished. I finished my first scene ( its not jumpy at all! so im proud.) and for the second scene we are using the picture back-up plan. Well, the 4th period bell is about to ring... bye!
