Evaulation that i wrote on Sascha and James work

Sascha's

I watched sascha’s work I really enjoyed her animation because of the fact that it was a very difficult piece to animate as the images started off joined together after she had hand drawn it on Photoshop this however didn’t hinder her final outcome. This piece runs very smoothly and it’s really good that sascha decided to hand draw her work because I feel that sascha enjoyed making the piece.

James

I watched James comic today and played through the many ways that his comic could end. Overall I feel James comic was really very put together and thought out and am very impressed by the final result as I haven’t seen any of his comic while he was making it. So how it all runs smoothly was very impressive. I really like the way that James was willing to go and do a photo shoot and make his comic from photography in contrast to mine which I drew. The flash file of James Comic was a very complicated piece of work and I can imagine the work he had to put into the work to succeed in making this final piece really work. The images we very clear and sharp which made me look and watch trying to pick out all the details in things and because it was somewhere that I have been I knew what the scenery should look like therefore felt part of the story because you rarely get to the see the character after he leave the train station giving James comic a sense of the audience being in the story. James project has kept to the brief of interactive comic very well and it is apparent in his final piece that he structured his work and was very focused throughout this project.

Story Boards

this was my story board that i did in the begining i nthe porject and i changed things around slightly and dropped soem scenes but thats what happens when tweaking ideas

Evaultion of my work by Sascha

Connors interactive comic was really well done as he took a lot of time and effort to make everything work I really enjoyed watching the light from above follow Connor’s character while he was doing all these free styling moves off of buildings top it could have been better if I heard some police sirens and a helicopter flying above, In overall Connor’s animation was spot on. Those are the only two things I would add but everything else was perfect I loved the lighting the contrast of red and grey and black very well put, but where was the glare of the light on the character from the search light. Well done Connor.

Evaultion of my piece from James

In this animation I especially liked the black foreground and the red and grey background. The jumping and back-flipping animation was good too. Improvements could be made to the way the character runs, but overall I enjoyed the piece.

Image minpulation

 we Took a trip down to a local park and took some picture's of various things i picked out the picture of billy actually falling off a bar but he landed safety and looked very interesting in ways he is postioned. I then used a filter to change the image into a very cool looking poster background and so i used the glowing edges filter because i thought it gave the image the best look. i then simply added a Pen Tool path and connected the text to it.

Evaluation

Topic of Project

The topic of my project was to create a product on flash that was interactive using the skills that I have acquired through tutorials with my tutors or even past experience. This meant that I could show the advantages to using digital means to create work for a specific topic and brief. I have concluded that using digital means to create my work has a lot of advantages because I can not only keep all my work in one place it is easier to transport to different areas to do work in other places or even import and export into different programs to give my work diversity and flexibility in creating the best piece of work I can. My work combines both traditional and digital means of production as I got my initial design from the story board I drew. I then took my story board and by hand painted into Photoshop using a graphics tablet. Then because I was using Photoshop it became very easy to move each image of my story board into flash because both Photoshop and flash are compatible. However at times flash did limit the ideas I had about my work It became simple after getting used to the rules of the software to adapt my design to run very smoothly in flash. I have come to realize that there is a lot of potential in working digitally although I feel that the traditional ways of doing things shouldn’t be forgotten or stopped being used because I feel with the right tools you could always make something better using your own hand and not having a computer calculating every click or movement on the graphics tablet.

Outcome

For my outcome I have created a flash video of my mutant running from a crime scene in which he has killed a human. After he jumps from the first roof top he has to run and jump over many different roof tops because he has a spot light following him. Eventually his escape fails and he is shot down and falls off screen to a gruesome demise.  I create my final piece I used Photoshop and illustrator to create the individual piece to my work. Character design was done in illustrator to give me more drawing movement and flexibility. I used Photoshop to create backdrops and rooftops and save them as Jpegs to fit to the pixel size of 550 by 400 this meant easy transitions between back drops in my final video.  Creating the movements in my flash video was done using classic tweens and key framing the path in which I wanted each object to take. Each character was saved into the library in flash to make easier position switching. I know that making this in a completely traditional medium would have been extremely difficult because I would have to have each frame on different pages therefore to use digital means in creating this specific product was the best way to create a visually interesting piece of work. To acquire the skills that I have used to create this product I have done many different styles of work and using many different programs to enhance my diversity in style of working. By having skills in many programs I have been able to get more than just a basic way of doing things because if I a program cannot do something I see in my design I can simply export into a program that will do the action I couldn’t take in the last program. Each piece of work leading up to my final outcome has been me learning new skills from scratch because I have not used many of the programs used in my work to create in my final video. Such as flash and illustrator I had not used before I started this project therefore being able to incorporate them into my work with such ease took a lot of concentration and patience. On a whole I feel that I have learnt to focus my work on the specific out come because in my last project I was very varied in ideas and didn’t quite focus on one specific outcome this in turn has helped me really drive my work on and work past all the problems I encountered to come out at the end with a flash video that I am very proud of as it was my first attempt at flash. After using digital means to create a lot of work over the course of this unit I think digital medium of working unlocks endless outcomes into the world of art and that it will truly enhance capabilities of future artist and that the level of work will just increase in difficulty and complexity as technology continues to advance.

Flash experiments

We have been experimenting with Flash and making videos or sort animations. we learnt how to go into frame on and postion a seaguls wings so that we could turn it into a video of the seagul flying.
we then had it tweening across the screen in a SWF video

we then flipped it and brought it back across the screen