ANIMATION ASSESMENT IN IST!!! DIARY ENTRY!!!

27/3/2009



Our first IST assessment this year. We have to create an animation promoting our future house website. I'm in Coolock house, and I planned to make my animation on Gimp, because it's the easiest paint application for me. I want to do a clover walking to a party in Coolock house.




29/3/2009

Today I started making my animation. I saved it as a xcf file while making it. I made one image, then duplicated, then made another image, and so on when creating the animation. I saved my frames as Gimp formats. The frame rate was 100 milliseconds.



31/3/2009



I finished my animation today in class, but I still need to uploade it to my blog. I hope I'm gonna do it right!



3/4/2009



I tried to upload the animation to my blog, but it doesn't want to upload. It says something is wrong...



3/4/2009



Now I know why it didn't upload my animation! It was because it was a GIF image, and I needed a AIF image! Now it worked! Thanks to Serena and my dad of course, because I didn't know why it didn't want to upload... THANK YOU SO MUCH SERENA! and my dad of course :-)

Difficulties and advantages when making the picture using Word:

When I wanted to draw the interlocking, I had diificulties finding tools that could do it. However, the rings were made easily because there was a ring shape in Autoshapes, and I could quickly get the right line and fill colour.

3D shapes

8 of Clubs

This is my 8 of Clubs card. To make this card I used Paint as a canvas. The tool I used to make this picture was:

• - Select Rectanlge


• - Eclipse


• - Rotate/Flip


• - Text


• - Copy/Paste

GIMP TOOLS

SELECT RECTANGLE : Selects a rectangular area.

SELECT ECLIPSE : Selects a round area.

LASSO TOOL : Selects a hand-drawn area.

MAGIC WAND : Selects everything of one particular colour.

CROP : Cuts the outside of an image.

PAINTCAN TOOL : Fills a particular area.

AIRBRUSH : Simulate the application of an airbrush paintgun.

SMUDGE : Smudges your image, making it bleed into areas of your image.

DROPPER TOOL : Selects a colour

INK : Draws acting like an inkwell

ZOOM: Zooms in on the picture.

PENCIL TOOL : Draws where you click

ERASER : Erases the area you click on

TEXT : Adds text to your image.

Dgital Art

· A discussion point. “Is digital art a valid form of art?”



Yes


· What are some of the advantages that digital paint and draw programs offer over the traditional methods (canvas and paint).



Background colours, frames, cut and paste, crop.


· What skills must a digital artist possess to create great digital art?



A digital artist must know what each different tool in a drawing program can do, and how to use the programs, to create great digital art.

Digital Media

· List how many forms of digital media surround us.


Digital telvision, digital video, internet, video games, and World Wide Web (www)




· What number system is digital data based on? What two digits are used to code all digital data?

Digital data is based on Binary numbers. 0 and 1 are the two digits to code all digital data.



· What is a bit? What is a byte?



A bit is a single numeric value, either 1 or 0, a byte contains 8 bits.



· What is “sampling rate”? Find an image that explains how sampling works (Wikipedia is a good resource here…you can place these images in your blog)



A sampling rate is a grah that shows the amount of a sample per second.






courtsy of ww.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate



· How does Colour Depth (Color Depth) or bit depth effect the appearance of an image? Find some images to illustrate the effect.



Colour depth affects the apperance of an image by altering the colour quality depending onthe amount of bytes or bits in that particular image. For example if you have one or two bits in an image you will only have a monochrome coloured image. Whereas is you have an image with more bytes you will get a better quailty image with 64 bytes being the largest so far.



· Colour depth effects both still and video digital media. Sampling rate only effects video but not still media. Can you explain.



Sampling rate only affects video as it takes the sample per second, a video is a moving image and therefore the sampling rate would take the images per second. However colour depth only affects still and video digital media. Nothing is produced in still images and therefore a sampling rate is not affected.