GarageBand

https://soundcloud.com/megan-wyatt-jones-1/my-song-2

What  I did first was put the drum kit sound as the backing track and then started to add more sounds into until I found a combination that I liked

Rotoscoping

How I made my rotoscoping animation was that I started by recording Tom kicking over a chair and then converting the video so that it would work in flash. The way that I made this animation was that I drew other the video frame by frame with the paintbrush tool on flash and did this for the whole of the video. This animation technique is good to use because you can make things look less real and you make things more stretchy and follow the 12 principles of animation.    

Cut Out Animation

In this animation work I took a photo of Jack standing with his legs and arms away from his body and this was because when I came to cutting up his body in different parts on photoshop it was easier to cut around in, the reason I cut up the body in to different parts was because when I used it in the animation I could make the body do movements it normally can't. When it came to cutting out the different body parts I made the background transparent so that when I put the parts on to flash there would not be a white background around it, the first tool I used was the magic wand tool and this was to get rid of the background quickly, the way that this tool got rid of the background quickly was that when you selected one part of the background photoshop would select all parts of the background that are the same colour. After I got rid of the background I used the lasso tool to cut round his arms, thighs, legs, mouth and head so that when it came to the animating I could animate these parts separately. When I cut out each body part I put them on different layer on photoshop.
When it came to making the animation I had to put the body parts on different layers because if they were all on the same layer you would not be albe to move each body part separately and it would not give the animation the full effect. For my animation I had around 11 layers and this was for all the body parts   and one for the background. I made my animation by using the frame by frame instead of the motion tween option and this is because I can make the body parts do more things with frame by frame then using motion tween, with motion tween you give the object one way to move where as frame by frame it can be going from one direction to another.
 This type of animation was inspired by Monty Python and how their opening scenes start.

Flip book

I made a flip book to help show the way that the eye process images. Using a flip book helps show this because the way the eye process it is as an moving image going across the paper and untill the flip book starts to slow down then the eye will see it as different drawings. (A video will be posted with this soon)

The Affordances of animation

The meaning of the affordances of animation is that you can draw whatever you want with animation because unlike cinematography you can draw it so get all the effects you want.

A good example is that in the film Xmen it uses a lot of CGI to make the film look really good and that costs a lot of money but in a game like Tomb Raider the animation is cheap to use and it makes the game look good.

Bouncing Ball

For this animation I used shape tween to give the effect of the ball falling and bouncing back up again. I also gave off the effect that the ball was getting squashed when it hit the bottom of the screen and this follows one of the 12 principles of animation. 

Car animation

I made another flash animation but with this one  I used motion tween and what this does is that you draw your shape and move it along the screen and flash makes the animation for you so that you do not have to do it frame by frame. The reason that this is good to use for animation is that you can make quick and easy animations that look pretty cool.  The bad thing about it is that you can not use it to make someone walk because if you try moving someone across it makes it look like the person is flying over the screen when they should be walking