Friday, April 8, 2016

Character Development

Hey guys! Im back with another G.T project and guess what were doing an animation project. Last year we did a animation project but this year its gonna be different. My team did House Reunites Family and that was for the film festival. Even though I already talked about the film festival on my last blogpost, we did have the option do one for the film festival but we didn't. But its great that were doing an animation project. I think that Im gonna enjoy doing this animation project more than last year. But lets forget about the past and move on to the present which is today. I'm gonna be defining myself and who I really am so lets get into that.

I would define myself as a shy yet very happy person with a crazy and wild personality. I look very shy and quiet but when people get to know me better they realize that I'm no where near that. I have a very unique personality that my friends would call me my "own species". Yeah I know I'm that unique to be called my own species. Something humorous about me is that I'm pretty clumsy in the morning. They'll be times where I wake up and I want breakfast so I go into the kitchen. While walking there I always bump into the couches and seem to trip on air. Its never a pleasant thing to go through everyday in the morning, but it sure does wakes me up. Being clumsy is relatable to other because everyone trips and thats clumsy.

The character traits I plan to exaggerate are my wild but yet very clumsiness side of Jhoanna while animating. But for the GIF the character traits I exaggerate is my happy and very excited side. In the GIF I'm waving back and forth while my head moves from left to right. In the morning at school and I'm inside the cover court I tend to wave a lot to random people. More when I see my friend, I'll start to try look like manic and get her attention. For the animation project we have it will be more about my clumsiness and my other team mates character trait. I could make the animation be me like falling and tripping. Those are some things that usually happens at random times of the day. Thanks clumsiness!

My animated GIF character is me coming from the left side and waving then going back down on the right side. The first step to creating the GIF character is getting a picture of your whole body with legs wide and arms spread open. Second, you would take your picture and use the quick selection tool in photoshopped and  cut it out. After cutting out your image, go to workspace>animation so you could start animating. Take your cut out image and put it where you want your character to start from. Every time you move your character make a duplicate then move. When you want to make a movement on your character copy and paste (command c and command j) the layer you end off with. This is where it might get confusing but when your in photoshop it makes more sense. Now you would select the other layers that you won't be making a movement on and turning off those. (I'm believe I'm making this so complicated then it should be) So after that then you would go edit>puppet warp and make points on your character and then moving those points. You would do the same step again if you want to make more movements. Then to make it loop you would do duplicate the first couple layers and put them at the end and reversing it. For the background make a new layer and start drawing on it using the brush tool or paint bucket tool or use a picture and putting that layer on the very bottom. I don't think I explained that too well.

While make the GIF character I had a hard time since I got confused with the turning off layers and not. It got me really confused but I eventually figured it out. I like how my GIF character turned out. Even though it wasn't how I wanted it to be I was really happy with how it turned out. While watching it, it makes me laugh because of how the head moves and also how fast it goes since in real life I wave like that. Overall I'm happy with the outcome considering it was my first time using puppet warp.