Google Sketchup House

For our final project we used Google Sketchup to personalize a house and then create a 3D animation of it. this project overall was very easy, almost no challenges except teaching myself how to rotate objects. I really enjoyed this project, especially for what finished out our animation quarter.

Website Page

 For this - We used 'DreamWeaver' to create a mock website. With this we published a biography about ourselves as well as out 'Elevator Speech' talking about why we should be hired. Then we created another page showing off some of our favorite projects. Since I have not been to video yet I am unable to post something for video. These projects are all located on my blog if you would like to see.

Dog House

This was out second project done on 'Google Sketch-Up'. We created a dog house using our tutorials on 'How to make a house in Sketch- Up', We just created a smaller version with less detail allowed for a dog who stays outside. Using the 'Push/Pull' method and the 'Paint Bucket' tool. We were able to download things to add in, such as the dog, and bush next to his house. This was on of the easier projects we have done, and I enjoyed being able to personalize the house, and add my own design.

Table and Chairs

This project we used 'Google Sketch-Up' to create realistic models of furniture. We began making boxes and using the 'Push/Pull' tool provided to pull the square up. From there we created the shape we wanted using the 'Line" too, and then reshaping in but pushing the in wanted material away with 'Push/Pull'. The most difficult part of this assignment was lining everything up so no matter which was you rotated the image it look as if it was placed properly. Following the tutorials, they made that look easy but you stumbled upon the fact that your chairs always looked to be floating. Other than the floating objects - I very much enjoyed this project for my first time using 'Sketch-Up'.

Bouncing Ball

Process - 

For thin animation, we used photoshop. We used squash and stretch for the process. We made the all bounce over out names by started with our names first. Each movement of the ball was made by a different frame. From there we repeated the steps of moving the ball across our name with stretching as the ball fell and squashing when the ball came back up. 

Name Frame Animation

Process - 

For this project, we used photoshop again. To begin we started with out with the finished product. We typed out name, and added then affect we liked for the end of the gif. From there we duplicated layers and began slowly erasing our names backwards. From there we placed the frames into an animation timeline, reversed the frames, and created an animation of our names being wrote. As you can see this is on a forever loop, being placed as a gif. From here - We have just embedded it into our blog for everyone else to see! 

10 Words Animation

Basic Description -  In Animation, we created a ten word analysis. All of these words in this animation I believe describe me.

Process - We used a series of layers to create each word, and then used the video timeline to create a mini video.

The Bounce of a Ball

Animated - 

             With this project, we learned two of the twelve principles of animation; 'Stretch and Squash' and 'Ease in and Ease out'.
From this, I learned that when using the timeline panel (Animation Panel) everything is to be done frame by frame. You have to repeat all the steps, which at first seemed complicated but got easier. The most difficult thing about the process was trying to get all the frames correctly organized in order for it to look as if the ball is actually bounding.

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