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.