Stephannie Sipaque IMM 110-02

I made some progress on my animation in which I have decided on the way I want my characters to look and on the style I want them to be in. I picked a fairly simple, but nice style. I drew the lines for the first character (the guy shown above) for the first small part of the animation. The animation is running at 12 fps so I ended up copy and pasting some drawings for stillness. I also drew the first two frames for the second character and all the frames for the first character are done up to this point as well. I currently need to do the most difficult parts of the animation; the running in the dress and the twirl. I am pretty happy with the progress I made so far.

This is a storyboard for my animation which is currently still in progress. This establishes the main frames and the layout of my animation. I've also established the basic designs of the characters here. As you can see the main and most important movement in the animation will be the twirl which is why I gave it two frames here in the storyboard. I do not intend to have anyone speak, so the words are just describing the actions.

This is the rough edit done in Premier Pro using the 9 video clips I selected from the last assignment. I didn't add any music, but I cut the videos and used transitions to make them fit together better. 

I recorded many videos, all of which were at least 5 seconds long. I have 9 that I would like to use for my rough edit, but here's just three of them since they are a bit of a pain to upload, I might add the rest at a later time. All the video was shot in my backyard back at home with the assistance and acting of my aunt, Nathalie. This particular video clip is just a background shot, establishing the environment in which everything else will take place. This clip actually contains my aunt this time and is actually pretty long compared to the other clip. In this one she is kicking a soccer ball at the net. I wanted to capture some good shots or at the very least some good kicks and movement. In this clip my aunt actually goes to the pool and draws a heart in the foam of the water. I know this seems really out of place, but it is something different.

This is the final photo of the blue house. While editing it I used rebatement and symmetry to decide on how I should edit certain elements of the image. I made the tree on the left taller using a combination of copy-and-paste and the clone stamp tool to make it blend in a bit better. I used adjustment layers, raised the brightness and brought out the blue with the use of curves and levels respectively. I then lowered the saturation of everything else besides the house so it would pop even more. I wanted the blue house to be the focal point of the image. This edit is much more subtle, all I really wanted to do was raise the brightness of the foreground and fix the color a bit. To achieve this I used two adjustment layers, both selecting everything besides the bright background. I used curves on one of these adjustment layers and color balance on the other. This is a composition I created which added both my aunt and thi...

This is an edited photo of a watermelon using clipping masks and adjustment layers. I used curves on the background and the watermelon separately. For the background I increased the contrast and lowered the brightness using curves adjustment layer. For the watermelon, I created two clipping masks on two adjustment layers. One of these layers were curves which I used to increase contrast and brightness and the other I used to increase saturation to make the watermelon stand out further. This is the original watermelon for comparison. I used 2 clipping masks with adjustment layers to lower the exposure of my father and to hide the original background from his photo exposing the one you see behind him in this edited photo.  For this I created a few clipping masks and adjustment layers. The blue house has two adjustment layers utilizing clipping masks to increase the brightness a little and to increase the saturation to make the house stand out more. The backgrou...