Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Bounce Project


This video here is the first animation project I have made, in which I took a ball, and make it bounce across the screen. I used keyframes to mark the positions where the ball would be and the software would generate the location of the ball for all of the frames in between. I used the ease-in and ease-out setting on the Keyframes to make the ball slow down as it reached the height of it's bounce and speed up as it left. I also used the Squash and Stretch setting to make the ball look like it squashed a little when it hit the ground. I used the Adobe After Effects program instead of the Adobe PhotoShop program to do a majority of the work in this project. Photoshop is better for creating an image with multiple layers, while After Effects is better used for editing the movement of the different layers in the image. This project was not too difficult, although I did encounter evil glitch bug demon while working on it.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Colour Wheel

This Colour Wheel was produced in Adobe Illustrator. I used the Shape tools, specifically the Circle, Square, and Polygon tools. With the Polygon tool I decreased the amount of sides of the polygon making it have three sides, thus having a triangle. I also used the text tool to input the text into the image. Also I changed the formate of the image from the default .ai formate to be a .gif formate, where I learned about how a .gif has only a limited amount of colours to decrease the file size. I also used the Artboard tool to change the size of the canvas.