Animate/Flash: Create Basic Motion Tween

Learn how to use Motion Tween:

Steps to follow:

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.
  
  
• Title Layer 1, "Ball"(click on layer title to change name)
• Select the first frame. Draw your image on the stage; you can either choose Rectangular tool or Oval tool from the tool box and draw your desired shape.
• Select your object on the stage and press F8 to convert this image to a Symbol (or right click "Convert to Symbol"). Convert to Symbol window will pop-up.
  Name your Symbol what ever you like.
  Select Graphic behavior and press OK.
• Your Symbol is in frame1 of Ball layer. Select frame 20 and press F5 to insert a new Frame (or right click "Frame")
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19, then right click select "Motion Tween". Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below. 
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, move your Symbol to any other position other than the present one. A key frame will magically appear on the timeline to indicate a change in movement.
  
  
• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween. 

Adobe Animate/Flash Intro

We are going to begin to learn how to draw and animate in Adobe Animate. Animate is a fun program that makes animation easy... well it takes a bit of time to learn, but there are many things it can do. It can help you create digital animations, help you design games, and help generate cool websites. I say it can help, because you are the designer and creator, you have to make the choices to create your piece.





We are going to learn about the following:

• The stage
• Timeline
• Properties
• Tool bar
• Library
• Document set-up
• Scale
• Colour- Tone/alpha
• Frame by frame animation
• Onion Skins

Photoshop portrait tutorials

Comic Technique

Try some PHLEARN Photoshop tutorials with one of your portraits:

1. Frequency Separations
2. Photoshop Colour Tone Separations
3. Colour, Brighten and Sharpen Eyes
4. Sharpening a Portrait
5. How to remove anything from a photo 

Photoshop Andy Warhol Portraits

We are going to play with your face using Adobe Photoshop. In this assignment, you are going to learn about basic photo editing and maniulation techniques while creating a multi- image "Andy Warhol" like piece.

First research Andy Warhol. Find a portrait and post it to your blog. Find some information about him and write interesting points about him, his work, and the significance of his work in your own words.

Then we need a photo of you- we will take photos in class of you.
We are going to learn about basic Photoshop Techniques:

1. Basic tool bar functions.
2. Sizing and cropping an image. 3 in x 3 in @ 300 dpi.
3. How to adjust exposure- Image- Adjustments- Levels.
4. Filters: Find Edges, Posterize, Cut Out, Brush Strokes, Artistic,
5. Image- Adjustment techniques: Invert, Hue & Saturation, Posterize, Replace Colour
6. and several combinations of the filters and adjustments.

Photoshop Portrait Editing Tutorials

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We are going to take your portrait in the LFAS Photography Studio. You will have a few poses to choose from. But for now, use a portrait from Pexel:
https://www.pexels.com/search/portrait/
I have posted a couple of portraits above if you want to start.

Then you are going to edit/touch up your portrait. I will show you a few techniques, but try a few things on your own.

Here are some Phlearn tutorials:
Quick Start Guide Part 1- Essential things you should know about Photoshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOgl4EDgn8

Quick Start Guide Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtnmc2pRQo

Quick Start Guide Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpC08fl96A

Fun Portrait Tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-SZ0C1jLY

Layer masks- really important to learn in Photoshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yW5hHjQrE

How to cut images out of the background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmDmq8sQ2Yg

How to whiten teeth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvCDzD_mDHo

Clean up eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33cgxtSYXY

How to change eye colour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmzoYZpg_Q

How to change hair colour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfGupxCdIVQ

Illustrator Pig

My Banner

Here is my banner with the clipping mask and drop shadow also with inner glow. I also lightened the text with image adjustments.

Setting up your blog

Starting Your Computer Arts Blog

We are going to create a class blog together using Google Blogger so you can post your Computer Arts progress there. Here is the address:

lfascomparts@gmail.com

Password: lfas2017

• Open Google using Firefox or Google Chrome- DON'T USE Internet Explorer.
• Sign-in using the email address- lfascomparts@gmail.com and password- lfas1234.
• Click on the ap icon at the top right of your page. See icon >
• Start a new blog with a title- your blog title should have your name somewhere in it. 
• The address has to be something completely original- no one else in the world has it. 
• Then select Theme> Customize to personalize it with colours, fonts, backgrounds. 
• Make sure to keep it private/restrict access.  Settings> Basic>Permissions
• As we create new work, we will personalize it even more with a profile photo etc. 

Next:

• Start your first post. Write a short paragraph: If you could change yourself into an animal,  what sort of animal would you be and why? Find an image of the animal.
• Then write about your computer experience and any sort of programs you have experience with. And what is your major?
• Then are going to start making a name banner for your blog using Adobe Photoshop.
 

 

Here is a Blogger tutorial for more help:

Blogger help

[Last Semester]

Computer Arts1

lfascomparts@gmail.com

Password: lfas2017

lfascomparts2@gmail.com

Password: lfas1234

Animate Tutorial Check List

Make sure you have the following animation tutorials saved to your blog. Each can be in separate short cartoons, or all included in one real. Include a title of the type of animation technique used.

• Frame to frame animation
• Motion Tween
• Classical Tween
• Shape Tween
• Transform/Scale Tween
• Colour Effect Tween 
• Masking 

Then and post your personal project- Circle animation which includes a minimum of 4 techniques to help tell your story. Give a brief synopsis/intro/overview to your story idea on your blog.

If you are having issues posting your animation to your blog, then create a folder in the StudentShare/ "2018 Computer Arts" folder titled with your name. Make sure to post your write up about your animation to your blog.

Animating a Walk Cycle

The walk cycle is one of the most important learning concepts in animation--and also one of the most technically difficult, because it requires so much attention to the movement of opposing limbs.

However difficult, though, if you can learn to master a walk cycle then you can animate just about anything. There are many types of walk cycles, and you can vary the motion to match your character or his/her mood; you can do bouncy walks, shuffling walks, casual slouches. But the first and simplest is the standard upright walk, viewed from the side--and that's what we're going to attack in simplified form today.

You can cover the cycle of a full stride in 8 frames.

Here is a walking cycle Flash Tutorial.
Walking Cycle Tutorial


Here is a tutorial that criticizes the "Walking Cycle":
April Peter, Animator 
She has a good argument why the walking cycle is not the best way to learn.

April offers some advice:

Never stop thinking about who your character is.

 Each walk should be different to suite the weight, gait, strength, body type and attitude of the character. 

After you've finished the basic structure, you don't have to keep the keys of all the transformations on the same frames. Each separate rotation or translation can have a different timing.

Don't obsess about ending up with identical graphs for each step. Achieving perfect mathematics and achieving a good animation usually aren't the same thing.

In fact, try to dirty the walk up. For example, place the feet in a slightly different place every time. Play with the rotations of the torso, head or arms.

FLASH: Circle Animation

https://media.giphy.com/media/H2NIpGM7gkntu/giphy.gif

Create a simple animation about a circle.

Your circle can be a real-life subject ie. a golf ball, or a hole in something, you can decorate/embellish your circle, it can have a personality/identity, it can start abstract too, and there can be more than one circle...

But no matter what, you should create a simple story about your circle: establish the character through graphics and motion, give some conflict, and have the conflict resolve.

• Create a Symbol/main character [AKA Circle].*
• Background on a different layer to establish scene.*
• Must include a short narrative: Establish character/conflict/resolution. * 

Animate your circle using four or more of the following techniques:

• Frame to frame animation
• Motion Tween
• Classical Tween
• Transform
• Scale Tween
• Colour Effect Tween
• Shape Tween
• Ease
• [You can animate the background too.] 

Create a simple story and incorporate your new Flash skills.Publish it and save to the Flash Circle Animation in the Computer Arts Share folder. We will share all of the circle animations with the class... When you post it, write a short overview of what your animation is about.



Some circle animation ideas
https://youtu.be/X0k7N0ASfp8

Animate/Flash: Masking Tutorial

Inserting Layers and Naming them

• By default you will have a layer in your timeline window. Insert one more layer, totally you need two layers to mask an object.
• Rename the top layer to "Mask" and the layer below that to "background".

Creating Shape Tween

• Import your picture to the "background" layer.
• Using Oval tool from your tool box, draw a circle in your "Mask" layer and delete it's border.
• Drag the circle to one end of your picture.
• Now go to"frame 40" of your "Mask" layer and press "F6" to insert a new keyframe.
• Now go to "frame 40" of your "background" layer and press "F5" to insert frames, so that your background image is available all through your mask.
• Select "frame 40" of your "Mask" layer, that is your new keyframe, Keeping the playhead on "frame 40" of "Mask" layer, drag the circle to other end of your picture.
• Now go back to "frame 1" of your "Mask" layer, keeping the playhead on "frame 1" of your "Mask" layer, select Shape tween in your properties window.
  

Masking

• Right click on the "Mask" layer (the area where you named the layer not where the frames exist) and select Mask.

Your Mask is all ready. Press Ctrl+Enter to view your Mask.

Animate/FLASH: Shape Tween

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.
  
  
• Select the first frame. Now go to your working area and draw any object. To start off with, may be you can draw a circle.This is going to be your initial object.
  In the above demonstration, my initial object is a short line.
• Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Now draw a different object, may be a square.
  In the pencil demonstration, we have drawn a long line.
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.
  
  
• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.

Computer Arts Semester 1 Progress

 

1st Bog Post- What animal would you be and why?
Name Banner- Clipping Mask [Photoshop]
Spirit Animal [Illustrator]
Personal Totem [Illustrator]
Surreal/Scale [Photoshop]

Post Your Final Totem

Totem by Rogue Romero

Finish all three of your iconic drawings representing different aspects of yourself.
Combine the illustrations into one personal totem- make sure to consider the order of your images.
Export the totem and post to your blog.

Write a short explanation of your totem considering the following prompts:

1. What animals or items did you choose to illustrate? Why did you choose those animals/items? What do the illustration/icons represent about you? 
2. What decisions went into your illustrations of your totem? Colours/style/shapes/background?
3. What order did you put your totem in? Why did you organize your totem in that order?
4. What is the most successful part of your totem.
5. What part of your totem do you think you could have put more time into?

Personal Totem

to·tem

ˈtōdəm/

noun

noun: totem; plural noun: totems

1. a natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.

Even though you started this project tracing Northwest Coast indigenous animal symbols, you are not to incorporate them into your own personal totem. We must be careful not to appropriate cultural symbols. However, please do consider how indigenous groups have simplified and symbolized the image of the animal and the cultural significance of the animals to them. You are welcome to be inspired by the indigenous symbols, but careful not to copy for your own.

For your personal totem, you are to select 3 or more animals that represent something about you and your family. Consider how the animal you select is meaningful to you (it doesn't have to be the native meaning, it should be your own- or a blend of two).

Simplify the lines and shapes to break it down to the most basic elements of that animal. Combine the three animals in a way so they work together symbolically and visually.

You can/should find examples of your animals to have visual reference. You may want to find examples from indigenous groups as inspiration, but not to copy. Draw your personal totem with Illustrator. You can use different types of line, colours, fill swatches. 

Spirit Animal Work Period

Work on tracing your First Nations spirit animal today. 

• Try to move one of your over lapping shapes to the bottom and on top:
• Click on the shape with the SELECT tool/ black arrow from the tool bar (left side),
• Select OBJECT from the top pop down menus
• Arrange- front, backwards or to back…

Try to add some colour today. Here is the fill (white square) and stroke (black square) colour selectors on your tool bar. If you click on it 1x, a colour picker window will appear. But you will need to click on the shape you want to colour first before you select your colour. You will notice the black box underneath the colour selector. That is the stroke colour selection tool. If you want the stroke to be a specific colour, you need to click on it so it appears over top of the fill colour box.

If you finish your drawing, you can start another one. One of your choice.

Post your progress to your blog.

To save your illustrator work:

• First  FILE- SAVE AS your drawing as an Adobe Illustrator file ( "yourtitle.AI")
• Then FILE- EXPORT -for Web & Devices
• Save as a PNG or JPG.
• Then up load it to your blog.  Click on the image icon and Browse for your image in your student folder. 

I want to see how you are doing.