Katie Conleys Blog

Pre-Production The First thing I had to do when it came to making my animation was coming up with a story and drawing the idea on a storyboard. I used the storyboard to visually see what I had to put into my animation to make sense. I think he hardest part about that process was figuring out what my plot was going to be. I had not very many ideas but after thinking for a very long time I decided that I would animate a story about a ghost that cannot walk through walls. Production The production was the most difficult part after all. I animated each scene individually and I out it onto Adobe Premier in order to put all of my clips together. I decided to first draw all of my scenes and characters in photoshop which took about two days. Then I out the photoshop files into After effect. Animating all of the things took the rest of the time. I found it very difficult to work with the puppet pin tool when I was editing the part where the ghosts hit the wall. Other than that it wen...

Young Author Publishes their Third Book Before the Start of Sophomore Year Olathe Northwest sophomore Lylena Estabine published her third book ever this past July. LyLena has been writing since fifth grade. In fifth grade she was a part of a special program that pushed students to read and write LyLena said,“ I believe that's where I got my start in writing.” LyLena first book was called Lose Cursed Secrets of the School. After that LyLena has published On the Bridge and A Special Kind of Magic. LyLenas most recent book is a dystopian novel about a boy named Colt and the struggles he faces in his world. LyLena said she got her inspiration for the book from hr everyday life“ I was really inspired by the two sides of the american conflict and turmoil,”,Estabine said. LyLena published this book by herself which means she has to do all of the marketing for it and all of the selling on her own. LyLena is currently working on her new book, but she does not necessarily want to...

Pre Production The first thing did as a group was decide who we wanted to interview. We decided to interview LyLena Estabine since she is our age and has already written three different books. After we figured that out we thought we would interview her freshman English teacher as well to add to the story. We created one storyboard which planned out where we were going to shoot. Then we came up with our twenty-one interview questions which were fairly easy to come up with since she has done a lot in life. We also planned out which days we were going to film and edit. Production I was the director and was in charge of the camera. It was really difficult to film because we did not have audio for awhile and we could not figure out how to get audio. So he had to enlist the help of Mr.Cooper and we just did not have the mic plugged into the right place. So we were a day behind because it took us an entire class period to figure out our technical issues. When we filmed the whole th...

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...