Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Ten Strengths Animation

Today I finally finished my first animation project that doesn't involve a bouncing ball. We had to take our ten strengths words and fit them into our animation. The first struggle was actually choosing words. After we managed to find our words that at least vaguely described us, we got to work.

We put our background picture into Photoshop first, mine being an orchestra hall. We spent a lot of time putting in our words after that. We had to make sure we really liked the final look, the fonts, colors, and sizes of each of the words. Once we had that in order, we began to animate.

This time in Photoshop, we used the video timeline to animate. We made all of the words come in front different spots, sizes, and opacities. My animation was looking oddly grainy and it made it super frustrating to try to nitpick little details. I couldn't play it without it looking like that. I ended up shortening the entire thing by hand twice. At first video looked that way, too. But the second time around I got lucky and it was okay.

If I were to go back and do this project again, I would want to choose a less busy background image. Though I do like my image, I feel like I could have gone with something more simplistic and easy to work with.  I am very excited to see what our next unit, working in 3D, has in store.

Ten Strengths Video:

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