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We are now moving into the area of animation. A basic item you will need to remember is that one second of movement is made up of 24 small pictures called frames. I am pleased to tell you that we will be creating your animations in Photoshop. Project 1--Red Rubber Ball File>new>default This opens a new work space. Window>Animation Notice that a new bar appears on the bottom of your workspace. This will be the area which will create your new animation. Note that there is a line with the title animation and you will see one rectangle in that line. Along the bottom row you will see a series of icons which will help to create your animation. YOur gray line at the top of the animation workspace should say animation (frames). On the gray line, you will need to make one adjustment--this is the magic button. The button is located at the right end of the gray line. Click the small box which will pull up a white menu. On the menu, there will be a line that says new layers visible in all layers. This must be turned off--awful things happen if it is not turned off. YOur layers palette must also be open. Your work will be done in the work space. Start by creating a dot in the lower left hand corner of the workspace. If you use the shape tool, this will create a new layer automatically. Then, go to the bottom of the animation palette. There is an icon that looks like the icon for a new layer. Click on that icon. You will see a new frame for your animation. Go back to your work space and create a new shape above and to the right of the first shape. This will create a new layer. Since both layers are showing, turn off the first layer for this frame. Do this again and again-- new frame, new shape resulting in a new layer, turn off previous layer, new from, new shape, turn off previous layer---Repeat this 20 times. Go to the bottom row and click to icon for starting the animation. Save this as Red Rubber Ball 1 *********************************************** Using the same animation, you will notice that the speed is too fast. Go to the lower right hand corner of each frame. When you click on the 0 seconds, a munu will come up. Choose a time for the frame to appear. When you have completed changing the times, run the animation.
Call this RED RUBBER BALL 2 . ***********************************
Red Rubber Ball 3-- Using the same work, add some new shapes in different colors. Put one of the shapes on each frame by turning on a new item along with the old item. You should have one of the original shapes and add a new shape and color to every frame. Save as Red Rubber Ball 3 ********************************** Change the timing once again for Red Rubber Ball go to the item currently called Red rubber Ball 3 and open it again. Go to the line along the bottom and find the tweening tool--the one that has the four boxes that seem to disappear. Click on that and add several frames between the frames to create a fade in or out effect. Call this Red Rubber Ball 4. ************************************************** To have a little fun-- Continue with the same set of shapes and add to the work you have done by adding frames. Randomly click several at least two shapes for each frame. Add at least fifteen frames. Call this Red Rubber Ball 5. ***************************************** Create an animation in which you create a spiral--a moving spiral.
Call the completed project Spiral. ************************** Go back to Spiral and add more frames and add no layers. Just unwind the spiral by clicking off one layer at a time. Call this spiral 2. ************************* Create an animation in which you take a letter and make it into an animation. YOu may, if you want, use the entire alphabet. The idea is to create a small "program" using the letter or the alphabet. Include some pictures to illustrate your letter or your letters of the alphabet. To do this: There should be at least 26 frames. Call this ALPHABET Create an animation in which you animate one or two letters as they dance across a screen. Call your completed work SESAME STREET ************************************************ Create a new animation in which you choose a background to place on your photoshop workspace. Then find an picture of some sort of vehicle. Remove all background material from the vehicle. Then move the vehicle through the picture. Incidentally, one of the most effective versions of this assignment was the animation created by a young lady as an advertisement for Clausen's Steakhouse in which she had a duck moving through the front of the picture--in the water. Yes, you may move something other than a vehicle through the animation. Call this animation VEHICLE. **************************************************** Create an animation in which your name dances. You'll need to go to photoshop and use the text tool. Type your name. Then, go to the Rocking T icon on the text tool bar on the top off the screen. Write your name, apply the rocking t, choose a shape for your name and then apply that choice.
Continue in this manner for at least 20 pictures.
Call this item Dancing Name ***************************************************************** Create an animation in which you tell a story by using a back ground and stick people. Avoid using the shape tools since this will cause some difficulty in creating your work. Call this STICK STORY ***************************************************** This can be a fun little assignment-- Create an animation using only two frames. An example of this would be an eye open on one frame and the same eye closed on the second from. The first one I saw of this was a cat with a paw that moved. Call this two frames. ******************************************************************************* I thought I'd throw in this one--yes, it is new. Create an animation in which you stack shapes and unstack shapes and rearrange shapes using the shape tools. Have at least 12 shapes but use as many frames and tweening as you need to make an effective animation. I want to see nice smooth transitions in which you stack your shapes up, then take them down and then randomly stack and unstack the shapes. Call this Stacked Shapes. ************************************************************************** Do this animation as a step by step-- Open a new animation. Take the brush tool and find the brush that creates blades of grass. Make the paint green. For the first frame, put one row of grass on the bottom. For the second frame, keep the first layer open and add a second row of grass. For the third frame, add an new layer with a new row of grass. Four frames should do it. Add a row of text--lawn mowing--555-1212 Change the timing and tweening to reflect slow growing grass. Call this item Lawn Mowing. ************************************************** Important--Very important!!!!!!!! Create an animation in which you insert at least 25 of your art works into separate frames. Then, morph the pictures so they blend into one another. (about 6 frames per picture.) The result should show a smooth progression from picture to picture. The actual art work should be set for at least 3 seconds. Call this art project video. Please note that not all pictures are compatible. *************************************************************
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