Week 6 - Animation

Sometimes I feel slow compared to other students. I like to think through an assignment or project and plot out the concept before creating anything; story boarding works well for me.

I have also become aware that even though I can manage a project from start to finish in a timely manner, I am more of a process person than a project person. I see what comes before the project and the multiple potential outcomes and even where a particular outcome can lead.
My awareness is very expansive and broad and that's why working with a story board is important for me. I am also very visually oriented and really enjoy putting pencil, preferably colored, to paper and drawing the ideas I have about how to create an assignment.

So that brings me to this week's class and homework: Animation.

I love cartoons and at one point desperately wanted to to work at Disney helping to creating cartoons as an Inker. The idea of learning even a simplistic method of animating was exciting.

We learned two types of software to create a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and created one GIF as a class with Dr. Sponder leading us through the process and then it was for us to create and post another GIF on our own. This is were my expansive thinking and .......the desire to "kill two birds with one stone"and .......wanting to understand the process fully first and ....... a desire for perfection, slows me down.

I could see other students around me having completed their GIF while I was still thinking about what I could create that I could use for my Moodle project; I had a bunch of ideas. I picked one and was enthralled with changing its size and speed.

I got my GIF posted in time and at the size and speed I wanted and at least it was a prototype of what I would eventually use in my Moodle, but just barely. In the same way that working on Visual Fine Arts projects suspended time for me I saw that working with animation could do the same.