In class, we have been working on many different animation projects using different types and styles of animation, as well as many different programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Animate, and even Illustrator. First, we had the frame by frame traditional animation of the bouncing ball. That one took a while and was extremely tedious, and in the end, it didn't even look very good, I don't think. Second, we made motion graphics in Adobe After Effects. These included our Illustrator self portraits we did previously in another project. Third, we made animated GIFs in Photoshop. This one was my favorite of all of them so far. For the first GIF, we drew over pictures, and the second we had to do ourselves without an image to trace. Finally, we made an animation of an apple skateboarding using Adobe Animate. It was frustrating that most people in class including myself could not get part of the animation to save in the final version. I think animation can be a very tedious process, depending mostly on the type of animation. Overall, i'm kinda neutral on it.
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In our most recent project, we made frame by frame traditional animations. This was my first time making a complete animation, and I don't think it turned out the best, but I still think it's pretty good. In this project, we animated a ball bouncing. I started by making a hand-drawn story board, showing the ball bouncing down a staircase. The individual images were made in Adobe Illustrator. Saving all 120 images was extremely tedious, but nothing really went wrong during that. Where I did start running into much more problems was when I started putting the frames together in Adobe After Effects. The program would not play back my video. The next day, it did play back the video, but I had several other issues, although a lot of them were due to my own stupidity. When I finished putting the frames together, I had trouble saving the animation. It would only save and export a single frame. Later, I did sort through the issues and why they were happening. The finished animation was pretty good for my first time making one, and I am proud of it.
So far in this class I have learned a lot of new digital art skills and such. Specifically, I've learned about digital art that is more related to editing photos. Before, I really only knew digital drawing/painting, which I hope we also get to do at some point soon. I have learned how to use a new program- Adobe Photoshop. It's been kind of tricky but it's a good program, more complex and professional than anything I have used previously. Outside of school, I have had less time to do digital art and haven't done as much recently, which is kind of sad but it's alright. Digital art is something that I enjoy and I am glad to learn more about it and its different forms.
Photoshop seems to hate me. When I desperately attempt to use it, something always goes wrong. That's probably an exaggeration, but still, stuff tends to god badly. For example: sometimes Photoshop will put a white border around my canvas out of nowhere. When I try to fill a layer with a solid color, it will put a white border around two sides and I can't get rid of it. Then, when I saved some of my projects that this happened to as JPEG files, the border would expand and appear in the file with a much bigger border. This is pretty annoying as I have no idea what it is or why it is happening. On the other hand, Photoshop is pretty nice and can do a lot of really cool things, even if it acts really weird towards me at times. At the same time, however, I feel like a lot of the things it can do are things I can do even easier in other digital art programs. Overall, I have pretty mixed feelings on Photoshop.
In our class we have started working on learning to use Adobe Photoshop, and I think I am getting the hang of it pretty well so far. In our first project, we worked with layers and layer masks to make sandwiches. We had to use layer masks to mask out parts of the images we didn't want in our art. I think layer masks are definitely important when creating things because they do not actually alter or destroy the file itself. In our second project we worked more on editing photos, and we used the skills we learned to create cool pop art. First, we edited pictures of a football player. We changed the photo to be black and neon colors, and three variations across. Then, we took pictures of ourselves and used the same techniques, but instead of three different pictures across it was nine pictures. I liked this project and while I did struggle on it, I did manage to get the hang of it. I am very exited to learn how to do more things and create more cool art in Photoshop in the future, and I have enjoyed using it do far. One thing that had been especially challenging, however, has been having to use a mouse for everything. It would be much better and easier if we got to use drawing tablets instead of mice, at least for me. All in all, while I struggled a bit, I think I did pretty well and I am excited to learn how to be a Photoshop pro.
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