First thoughts on animation project

Oh my gosh, I did it!

I finally got something I feel proud of.  This process was really hard for me, but I persevered and made it happen!  My classmates really inspired me during presentation our last day of class.  I was really amazed at how they made it look easy!  I am used to small tasks taking a long time in Photoshop but animation takes that to a whole new level!  I learned a lot from the process.  I think if I started a new project now I would be much more comfortable and able to do some of the effects more smoothly.  I opted to stay with the choppy quality, I like the feel of it.  I think in a way it ends up being more personal.  Ready?  Here it is...

Was it a dream?  Could they really grow those wings?  In a flash it was there and gone.  Do you believe it's possible?  Do you believe in magic?

No love for animation

I'm having a really hard time with the animation project.  I have lost hours of work several times.  I have thought about ditching this project and starting over many times.  I have watched countless videos and read many how to websites but so far it isn't helping.  I did finally get this part done.  It doesn't look like much, but it took a really long time.  I didn't use many photographs as I was trying hard to use photoshop skills to blend the frames together.

Project 3 Proposal

Animation Project Proposal

Carrie Avery

Digital Design

Spring 2015

For the animation project I would like to use a combination of techniques including frame animation as well as the onion skinning technique to create an artistic 30 second to 1 minute animated video using Photoshop. 

The concept I have in mind for this project is a continuation of a theme used in project 2, which is to create a magical landscape.  The inspiration for this project is to capture the magic enchantment of the world as seen through the eyes of a child. 

I would like to use my own my photographs of my children in a natural setting, like a forest.  I will use several photographs, although not to the effect of taking tons of pictures to create stop action.  I will use some photographs along with the tweening feature to draw out and make the children’s actions rather choppy. 

I will create colorful butterflies flying above and around the children by drawing in photoshop and using the onion skinning technique to animate them.

The end of the video will have the children grow wings and begin to fly with the butterflies.

I will used lightening, filters, and other special effects that I have learned this semester in Photoshop to make sure that the video has an artistic feel and invoke a dreamy, magical feeling in the viewer.  

simple animation

My first ever animation!  I took a picture of a butterfly, created a mask for each of the wings and did a frame animation with the wings in the up or down position.

More digital landscape inspiration

I found this artist online today and had to share.  I love how this artist merged images to create a new idea of landscape.  So cool!

merve özaslan

Project 2: Due Date!

Here's the final project.  I was not able to get the hill top perspective I was initially interested in.  I like the perspective warp effect on the book village.  I added a second light source coming from one of the doors to make the lighting on the kids more believable.