Animation Outtakes

This quarters project is animation! I think this is really cool. Animation is the process of creating motion and shape change. For this project we were grouped in groups of four. My four teammates are Taylor Chang, Jasmine Laplante, and Megan Mahikoa. Two interesting facts about Taylor, Jasmine. And Megan is that Taylor is a really organized person, and she likes to do work way ahead of time so that she doesn't have to worry about last minuet work. Jasmine is Canadian, and she is a great problem solver. And lastly Megan is a quiet student who gets the work done, She also strives for big goals in life.

There is many types of animation. But the two main types of animation Mr.Sanderl wants us to try out is stop-motion and G.I.F. Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or person appear to move on it's own, And G.I.F stands for graphics interchange format. For our teams project we are using stop-motion. It is really easy to accomplish. You honestly don't need to be specially trained or skilled to do this technique. All you need to have patience. For this technique, if you are doing your stop-motion on a object all you have to do is move it a little then SNAP!, Move it a little again then SNAP, then on and on you get the point right?

The theme for this project is tell your story. So out of our group story we chose was Taylors story. She was bullied in the fourth grade because she was new to the school. This just wasn't at school the bully followed her home she would get text saying hurtful things about her. I think everyone should care because bullying is one of the most common things everywhere. There is no way to stop bullying forever but if smart minds put their heads together and try to figure out a way to help prevent bullying that would be awesome. This is technically not only Taylors story because I am pretty sure that a lot of people have experienced this problem. I myself have had this problem many times. But we chose this to tell everyone how you can solve this problem. Simply all you have to do is apologize and make up. That's all it takes.

ANIMATION PROCESS... Step-By-Step! Aspect Ratio: Know It... Understand It… USE IT! 1280 px Width × 720 px Height = 16:9 Read About Aspect Ratio and Common Resolutions STYKZ EXPORT: File > Export Animation > Format .mov > Compression H.264 > Width & Height 100% iMOVIE: Transfer your photos to your “Animation” folder on your computer and Open iMovie Make a new project by going to File > New Project In the window that slides down: Name your animation the same as your Focus Statement Choose the “None” for the theme and make sure that the transitions checkbox is unchecked Click the “New” button the Choose “Movie” Click on Settings in the far right corner Set drop down list labeled “Photo Placement” to “Crop to Fill” Go to file menu and import all of your stop-motion images In iMovie Select all images and drag them into your timeline Select all clips in your timeline and look for the “i” in the preview window… top right corner Adjust the duration of all of your clips by setting it to 0.1 seconds Time to EXPORT!  File > Share > File > Resolution 1280 x 720 > uncheck “Add to Theater” PHOTOSHOP Adobe Bridge to Organize, Label & Rename ⌘8 to label Green, Right Click > Batch Rename Adobe Camera Raw to Edit and DOWNSIZE Blue Options Bottom > Smallest Size & 72 Resolution Photoshop to Animate Stop Motion or Claymation Open P.S. > File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack Animation Options Panel: Make Frames from Layers > Reverse Frames File > Export > Render Video Size > HDV/HDTV 720p Frame Rate: 30 fps AND VOILA... FIN!