Katie Conleys Blog

Creating My Animation The first thing we did when creating this animation was create a very long template in photoshop. Then we divided it into four sections. Each section was a different layer and each layer had to be different than the others. This was really difficult for me. The trees were very hard to make and they took a lot of time to copy and paste then and then merge then all onto one layer. I didn't like how the trees turned out. Animating the plane Before we animated we watched videos on how multi plane animation works. We watched videos on how they used to do it back in the day. I think it was really cool but it also took really long. Anyways after I created the base in photoshop I began to animate it in After effects. I did not really learn anything new. But it was really easy to animate. Overall  I think this was not my best project. I do not like the color scheme I think its too dark and gloomy. I also do not like the style. I also messed up the anim...

Sketching The very first thing I did was sketch my character. I decided to sketch a bear and it took many tries to get it right. It took about a day to do that. After I had sketched my rough outline I had to trace over it with marker. I decided to trace over it with a blue marker since he is a polar bear and it just kinda went with his character. After I traced it I rubbed the marker and smeared the outline of me bear and it made editing it more difficult in the future. After I was done with that I took a picture of it and put it in photoshop. Photoshop Once my photo was in photoshop I had to edit it. I turned up the exposure and made it so the background was completely white. I had to mask the edges so all that was left was the bear itself. Once all I had was the bear I had to separate the body pieces. I did that by making new layers for each body piece and then selecting and deleting them from the original copy. I separated every single thing including the head. I als...

Pre-Producion Our concept was to interview Noelle Chism about to her trip to South Dakota. We all compared stories of what we did this summer and hers was the most interesting and exciting so we choose to interview her. The very first thing we did was assign roles, I was the interviewer so I asked the questions. On the first day we started our rough draft of our story board. On our rough draft we didn't have many different angles but that was okay since it was an interview. We also came up with twenty one interview questions to make Noelle. It was really hard to come up with these questions because we did not really know what she had done in South Dakota yet, since we had not interviewed her. Despite that we created the twenty one interview questions. After that we got everything okayed and we were ready to film. Production During the production I had to make up a lot of questions on the fly. That way I could get good through answers from Noelle. I  learned that if I am...

Overview This week we created an inchworm on After Effects. First we created the worm and its layers in photoshop. Then we moved the photoshop version into after effects. We then proceeded to put pins in the worm so that we could move specific parts of the worm. We created two key frames where the inchworm is at rest and one where he has his middle up and his back pinched in. After that we attacked the worm to a null object thats called parenting. Once we did that we created positions for the worm to be in. Once we had the worm moving cross the screen correctly I created a shadow my creating a duplicate of my worm. Then I turned the worm completely black and turned up the opacity. Then it was finished. What I Learned I learned many things for this project. The number one thing that I learned is that when Mr.Olson puts out a video you have to watch the whole thing. I did not watch the whole thing so my video looks kind of weird. I also learned about the puppet pin tool and ho...

Overview The project we did was a 3D bouncing ball animation. We used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After effects to complete this project. First we created all of the layers that we were going to animate in the future. Then we put all of the layers into Adobe After Effects and that's when we started to animate. We created motion keyframes which between each key frame there was a motion path. So we could see the path the ball was going to travel. Then after we did that we curved each of our motion paths so it looked like it was bouncing and not zigzagging through the air. Then we squashed and stretched and rotated our ball in the air. That part was the hardest for me because it was difficult to get it right. What did I learn? I learned a lot about animation with this project. I learned that if you make a mistake your project won't look quite right until you fix that mistake. Everything you do in animation also has to be timed just right. Such as when you bounce the ball ...

Coming Up With Our Procedure The very first thing we had to do when new stated this project was figure out which ONW procedure we should do. We didn't want to something boring, because we did not want to make our audience bored. So we decided to make a video about not standing in the go zones. As soon as we got that idea we realized every other group in the room also had that idea so we had to come up with something else. After about ten minutes of bouncing ideas back and forth we decided to make about now abusing your planner. We decided to make the boring procedure more fun by making the video itself funny. Pre-Shooting Before we could shoot our video we had to do a few things. First thing we did was we came up with a story board. The story board helped us figure out our setting and it helped us figure out what we were doing. We had a lot of ides, so many ideas we couldn't fit all of them onto the storyboard. We had to create a much shorter version of what we origin...

Our Final Project in e-Comm Our final project this year was a group project. We had to come up with a product, and make up graphics and a website to go along with it. Then once we had done that we had to present our product and the website to other students in second hour e-Comm in a shark tank fashion. This project took an entire quarter. It took so long because we had around one week to do certain parts of the project. We spent the most amount of time working on our graphics for our company and our website. While working on the graphics we ran into some problems. Our team disagreed on the way the website graphics should look, we had to make many comprimises. Along the way I learned that you really need to listen to other peoples ideas, others ideas can really help make the content stronger an more visually appealing. My team got really good feedback, everyone said it was put together very well and it was really interesting. We had to change many things on our website and that is w...