Time-frame

6th June 2011
I am completley up to date with my animation-ish at the moment as I have nearly finished 5 scenes. I have approximately 30 lessons in-class time to work on my Animation-ish. I have 12 scenes to make using the program. This means I need to spend 3 lessons in class making 1 scene. So far I have nearly finished 5 scenes and it has been 2 weeks. This means I am up to date and am working well. I am very happy with the progress I have made so far.

Animation-ish verse iStopMotion

I chose to do animation-ish because I enjoyed learning how to use the program more than I did with iStopMotion. I found animation-ish much more interesting and fun to use. I also found that I worked harder at animation-ish and knew how to use the program better than I did with iStopMotion, as i was absent the day Mr Powell taught us how to use iStopMotion.

My Storyboard!!

Scene 1, 2, 3 and 4

Scene 5, 6, 7 and 8

Scene 9, 10, 11 and 12

My Storyboard:
My storyboard is animated in an American High school. It is about a popular girl falling in love with a nerd, but the other popular boy doesn't want her to because he is in love the popular girl as well. The girl always watches the nerd being beaten up by her peers and she begins to feel sympathetic towards the nerd. The popular girl asks the nerd to meet her at the chair one lunch time, but when she doesn't arrive on time, the popular boy has a stern talk to the nerd about seeing the popular girl. I was going to make the popular boy beat up the nerd, but I thought that it wouldn't be appropriate. Then, when the girl finally arrives at the chair, the boy takes her away from the nerd. This makes the girl very upset. She leaves a note with the nerd and they fall in love!!

iStopMotion- phone moving

In today's lesson I learn't how to use iStopMotion. I made a video of my phone moving around a desk. This made the phone look like it was moving by itself. I did this by moving my phone a tiny bit on every slide. I really enjoyed using iStopMotion and found it very interesting to learn how to make videos. I also experimented with backgrounds and foregrounds on my video.

Ballerina- animation-ish

In today's lesson and a couple of lessons before today, I made an animation-ish of a student doing ballet. There were a number of steps I had to complete to make this. Firstly, I drew a picture of a ballerina. I then copy and pasted the ballerina onto a new slide and moved it in any direction I wanted. If I wanted the ballerina in a different pose, I could re-draw the ballerina or move a part of her body, by choosing the mouse tool and double-clicking the part of her body I want. By doing this on many different slides, I could make it look like the ballerina was dancing. I really enjoyed making my ballerina and found it very interesting learning how to use Animation-ish.

Today in our lesson, we learn't how to draw a walking man using the trace tool on Advanced-ish. I learnt a lot about Advanced-ish and how you use all the different tools, colours and backgrounds. As well as learning how to draw a walking man, I learnt how to place a background behind my walking man and put clothes on it. I really enjoyed doing this peice of work and found it very interesting!!

My Walking Man :)

Animation-ish: bouncing ball

Today in our first lesson of Term 2 in creative media, we had a play with Animation-ish. We had to make a bouncing ball going off a file on blackboard. I really enjoyed doing this and made my ball colourful. :)