Walking Man with Sound

Today we learnt how to add sound to our movie. This is the animation of my walking man with the sound of his footsteps. Some of the sounds aren't quite right on the footsteps yet, but anyway, here it is!!! :)

Adding Sounds to an Animation

Tip: work in scenes on Animation-ish (scene 1, 2, 3, etc.) so that the key frames won't go all funny

To add a sound to your animation:
- share the animation in Animation-ish as a Quicktime file in the movies file (so it can be easily accessed in Garage Band)
- open Garage Band and open a new file in 'movie' format
- drag your Animation-ish movie into the middle section at top
- click once on the movie track to get a preview
- chose a sound and drag it up onto the middle section at top
- 'apple T' to trim a sound effect
- align the sound effect with the movie to where you want it to play
- to save as a Quicktime file, click share in menu bar at the top, 'export movie to disk' and then choose expert settings where you choose "Windows to Quicktime"

- the little slider at the bottom of the section under 'tracks' will show more frames in your movie so that it is easier to allign the sound effects

My Walking Man

Today I exported the image of the frames of the walking man off blackboard onto animation-ish and traced them to create this version of my walking man. I put the man in the foreground, the ground line in the background, and used the key frames to move him across the screen. Here it is!!!!!

Animation-ish tips & notes

Here are just some little notes to myself that I can refer to if I forget how to do something.

To make animation in foreground move across screen using key frames
- shift, click, copy, paste around 50 frames for approx. 5 seconds worth.
-key frame 1st and last frame by clicking little box with plus sign. Can take away by clicking box with minus sign
-click on transform (little truck) and when on first key frame drag it to where you want object to start, when on last key frame drag it to where you want it to finish. You can change size and shape of objects in key frames and the computer will move it and change size of object gradually over course of travel of object
-can add another key frame at any point & drag it down so that the travel path can be curved or whatever (not just a straight line)

To import something:

- save image for background (e.g. off google), click import, open image

To zoom in on background:

- add key frames in first and last frames

- make first image small and enlarge last image to however large you want it to get

- when played seems as though it is zooming in on image

To colour in an image (a good idea if it is see-through or hard to see!):

- double click on colour palate to get a lot more variations/shades colours

- fill in all the gaps in outline of the shape so that the program will fill it for you

- click on bucket in 'tools' on the left

- choose the colour you want off the colour palate

- click on the area you want to fill in

Some tips:

- it is only possible to have one imported image in the foreground/background at once

-to "steal" someones image so you don't have to import it (so you can draw it yourself accurately):

- save image,

- import it

- go over it with pen (like tracing)

- delete imported image!

-idea - could zoom in and then start animation in foreground

Stick Man Walking

Today in class we looked at some of the projects that people in year 9 submitted last year. There were some really good ones on i-stop motion and animation-ish. We then had a go at making a person walk on animation-ish using the tutorial off blackboard. I used a stick man, though as it was my first attempt.

Animation-ish

Today in our first lesson for the term we had a play with Animation-ish. We had to make a ball bounce, by going off the tutorial from blackboard. I really liked this activity and found it was lots of fun. Here is my bouncing ball animation...