Character Development

What's up blog readers school is now back in session. Were starting our 4th quarter back from Spring Break with a new project. We will have picture of our self where we will be warping the cut out of ourself in photoshop, I think. So to start off this blog post I will be talking about me. I am a funny, craving excitement, and sometimes insecure about myself kind of girl. I am loud and crazy and in my opinion an overall fun person to be with! (If you can handle my energy...) Some imperfections I feel I have is that I get mad if things don't go my way and when people just don't to something right or something I don't like. [insert laughing emojis}] Another imperfection about myself is that I feel nervous if I'm in front of a large crowd and everyone is looking at me like if I am speaking in front of the class or doing some kind of public speaking or on a stage. I don't feel comfortable doing this if it's just me, but I feel fine if I'm up with a group of people in front of the crowd. That's what I feel is imperfect with myself because I feel I should be able to be confident by myself.

The character traits I listed about myself in the first paragraph I will try to exaggerate some of them when animating myself. The ones that I plan to exaggerate is crazy and fun because when I use the puppet warp I can manipulate my body that looks out of this world and it looks very crazy. But I want to try to do this in a way where it flows together and makes sense so it's entertaining to look at and someone could look at it and say "oh that looks really cool and fun!"

To make our character GIF first of all we need a picture of ourself. Mr. Sanderl took the pictures of our front, back, and side view of us, we had to make sure all our limbs weren't touching each other. We chose a photo to work with and we cut it out in photoshop using the magic wand tool (I chose my front.) Then refined the edge. We then named the file blah blah blah then immediately cropped the image height: 720 px Width: 640 px Res: 300 px/in. Then we hanged our workspace to animation so we had the appropriate setting to make and animation. Then we were pretty much free to make any kind of gif we desired by going to edit, and puppet warp. We had to make sure the animation frames related with the photoshop layers in right way. When we felt like we finished our animation, we went to File, Save for web and devices and picked how many colors we wanted and changed the percentage size.

This is my finished puppet warped GIF.

This is my green screen portrait.                                             This is my photoshop cut-out.