Year-Long Analysis...sort of

Personally, I feel like this class has been alright. I think this class is special in that it has little to no structure, but I think we could have done with a little more...despite what a feel, though, I have learned a different style of animating that I will most likely be using for all my animations in the future. I've learned how to create an animation through a partnership and have experienced the ups and downs resulting from that partnership. I guess in the long run, I have taken quite a bit out of this class, whether or not it was intentional.
     In addition to having learned more about the arts of animations, I've learned some people skills, as well. I learned how to work with people even if I have absolutely nothing in common with them and I've discovered that even if it might not seem like I'm able to handle the presence of certain people, as time goes on, I might get to know them better and eventually we might become a really strong team.
     As for my future plans, I will be taking and Intro to Engineering next year as a part of Project Lead the way to broaden my interactions with digital engineering and just engineering in general. I suppose I could continue to post my animations on this blog, but that will depend on whether or not I can master my time management skills.

Family Aspect Animation

Here it is!

Family Project

For this part of my blog, I have to say, I honestly had no idea what to do.
In the end, I figured  that I'd just make an animation about a part of my family's life. And so i did. please see the next post for the Family Aspect Animation.

...and as stated on the second frame, the members of my family have not been captured very well, so please don't judge!

Murder Movie Full

Here is the FULL and FINAL Murder Movie...but each of the frames have been shortened into 1 second each, so I'm sorry, but you probably will not be able to read the dialogue...

Step Two

I then crop away the rest of the box to be able to move my character around more easily with this crop function in the upper right corner of the picture tools format tab:

...Now I position the character the way I want him to appear against the background:

Here comes the animating! I right click the slide I want to duplicate (on the bar on the left), and click the duplicate slide button under the new slide button and there!:

I move onto the duplicated slide and move the character a little and BAM! I've animated him!

These steps are done over and over and over until I've created the entire movie (which is why there are hundreds of slides!

Thanks for sticking around and goodbye!

If you have a question or some clarification, please leave a comment below and i'll reply! Thank you!

Step one

So, first I correspond with Shannon and she sends me an email that looks something like this:

I will then save each and every picture to a designated file on my flashdrive (so that they're all together):

Then I go onto Microsoft PowerPoint and pull it up.

When on Powerpoint, I first pull up the background for that scene:

After I've pulled up the background, I pull up the character that Shannon sent me:

...and I remove the white background with this button in the upper left corner of the picture tools format tab:

I enlarge the box so that the character is engulfed by the flood of pink/purple like so:

...and then I click away, out of the pink/purple blob and this is how the character looks on the background:

Please see step two for further instructions ↑