Awareness Animation

Storyboards

Animation Process

First frame drawing. Stage set to 720p resolution and 25fps frame rate for smooth, high quality movements and graphics.

Keyframing and layers. Some use of tweens.

Drawing of someone smoking using brush tool.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Walking Man gif

This simple gif is made up of 4 repeated frames. I used a tutorial online and traced over the frames (just the outlines, excluding details) then imported into flash. I then used a graphics tablet to add detail (the hat, face and hair).

Flash Shape Tweening

This is my test shape tweening. 

When uploaded as an animated gif, it appears to run much slower than in flash. I am unaware of the reason behind this.

Colour

My associations with colour:

• Red - Anger
• Yellow - Warning
• Blue - Calming
• Green - Natural
• White -  Minimalistic
• Black - Dark/hidden
• Orange - Fruity
• Pink - Girly

After researching into how different cultures see colours, I came across THIS website.

I find this very interesting as different cultures see colours in a very different way in comparison to people in this country. 

Hydrough

What it is/does

• Comes in long tubes
• Multiple different colours
• 20 minutes for creation to solidify
• Just add water to recreate
• Substance once dried is extremely hard to break
• Scentless
• Lots of fun!!

Process

• Blue background start
• Blueprint style pattern made
• Text style imported
• Title written and centred
• Hand drawings scanned and imported into illustrator
• Hand drawings used as template and traced over
• Ideas changed, hand drawings imported and colours inverted to give the hand drawn blueprint feel.
• Water drop drawn on illustrator and imported into photoshop.
• Warp text used to wrap “just add water” round droplet
• Description written and translucent green box added as background
• “dries in 20 minutes” text added and formatted correctly to fit

DUPLO

Duplo

Duplo is a product range of Lego. Similar to lego, duplo is made up of different sized and different coloured bricks that link together. Duplo is larger in size than lego (each brick is twice the height and width of similar traditional Lego bricks) and therefore is safer for younger children (aimed at ages 1.5 to 5 year olds) to use, as it isnt a choking hazard. Duplo has the same advantages as lego. Its easy to link together and create colourful objects with, however Duplo cannot be linked upside down (same as Lego). This can be achieved with different construction toys.  Duplo is one of the most popular construction toys with children, however lego is the preferred choice with older children/adults.