Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Describe the creation process you followed.

The creation process I followed was extensive. My first charcter choice was Elmo but because of Inkscape's technical difficulties the program would always freeze not allowing me to save my work. I decided to change the charcter but couldn't decide on a charcter until the last 4 to 3 lessons we had on our assignment. Unfortunetly before deciding on a final charcter my USB was misplaced so it was tiring to keep tranferring frames from this the school PC to my home PC. Instead I made the whole animation at home in the result of having 566 frames. Due to not having my original USB  I used a spare USB but that USB unfortunetly wasn't able to be located on the school PC's therefore not allowing me to make my animation.
My final animation was a Fire Engine truck making its way into sight from the left and the latter rising. Then the letters that spell GO VERITAS come jumping in from the right, one by one jumping from step to step until they get to the top of the latter. Once each letter reached the top step, it would hang off the canvas resulting in spelling out GO VERITAS ! When all the letter reached their position on the canvas the latter would return to it's spot on the fire engine truck and the truck would "drive" away towards the right of the canvas and out of sight. Finally, to end the animation the words GO VERITAS enlarge until it covers most of the canvas.
The tools I used to create my frames were the basic tools on Inkscape which were :
- the Selector (to move everything around)
- Group and Ungroup in Objects (make truck move as one as well as the letters and the latter)
- the rectangle and square tool (make the fire engine truck's body and the outline of the latter)
- the circles tool (make the wheels)
- bezier tool (make the steps and door of the latter and truck)
- text tool (make GO VERITAS!)
- the colour bar (change the colour of the everything)
In all, I like my animation but I'm still dissapointed that I wasn't able to make it.

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