Thursday, April 27, 2017

Image and Audio Prep

We used youtubetomp3.com to convert videos to audio files
Then we trimmed and exported selected parts of audio using Audacity

Dang It!

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Adventure Programming & Applied Math

Learned how to make a Google Form that created interactivity by allowing the user to navigate through our Adventure.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Character Scene Completion & Applied Math

DO NOW:

  1. Read my comments on your blog from yesterday
  2. Show me your After Effects demo from yesterday if you did not post in your summary
  3. Print out your characters from  Illustrator and pin-up on the "Drawing Board". FIT TO PAGE

OBJECTIVES:
  1. Download and print Character Scene Score Sheet
  2. Record Character Scene
  3. Edit in After Effecst (Add titles, background and sound to scene)
  4. Render as .MP4
  5. Submit to Google Classroom
  6. Math- Pi Day Activity


After Effects


What I was supposed to do What I got done
  1. Import Character Scene into After Effects - Printed Direction
  2. Pre-Compose layers
  3. Add background image and Sound












  1. File->Script->New COmp from character Animator Recording
  2. Pre-Composing Combine layers 
  3. Add background image: File->Import which brings the file into the project panel. Then double-click or drag to timeline
  4. Added preset animations by dragging from the panel to the text and also by manually animating opacity using transform options














Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Character Animator Puppet


What I was supposed to do What I got done
  1. Learn how to Use motion tracking to animate a mouth - 
  2. Modify a custom character in Adobe Illustrator




Learned how to animate using Adobe Character Animator and motion tracking 



















Edited Puppet in Adobe Illustrator


Monday, March 6, 2017

Talking Squidward

What I was supposed to do What I got done
  1. Place images in document: your "After Image", "Mouth Poses" and background
  2. Record/Edit Audio
  3. Sync words to audio
to hear the sound while scrubbing:
select the sound layer
got to the properties panel->sync->stream

to import the mouth poses:
file->import->open external library->select mouth.fla

to sync the voice with mouth:
move the playhead to where the voice starts, insert a keyframe (F6), select the mouth on the stage, click the frame picker button in the poerty panel and choos e the pose which matches the sound








Monday, February 27, 2017

Motion Tween and Color Changes

What I was supposed to do What I got done
Learn about
Motion Tween/Movie Clips:
Tint:color
alpha:transparency
Brightness
Motion Tween
Go to frame where animation will end
"Insert Frame"
Click any frame in between, right-click select "Create Motion Tween"
Got to the last frame and move the object.

Have color change animated:
Select the object in the frame to be changed
Properties->Color Effect
Tint:Color change
Alpha: Opacity
Brightness


Finish Infographic Poster Summary #2