Flash Animation

December 1st 2014

Animated GIF created using Adobe Flash.

December 1st 2014

A week after having a practice art creating a flash animation, I was given the task to learn about shape tweening. Involving moving the shape, changing colours changing the shapes.

 1. Opened up Flash and created a new project, changed pixelations and added shape(s).

 2. Right clicked on a frame in the timeline and selected 'Insert Keyframe'. This was done a few times during the task.














3. Created Shape Tweens within the Keyframes

4. Moved and changed the shape of the of the object(s).

Colour Harmony

Colour Harmony


Complementary
Mixing colours which are opposite each other on the colour wheel and are considered to be complementary colours. For example, red and green.

Analogous 
These particular colour schemes use colours which are next to each other on the color wheel. These colours usually match well and create comfortable and serene designs.

Square
This colour scheme uses four colours spaced evenly around the colour circle and works best if you allow one colour be dominant.



Colour Wheel Task





















I was given the task to go out and take some photos containing various colours that can be found on the colour wheel. I would then make a selection from the photo and insert it onto the matching colours on the colour wheel.

Colour

Colour

Colour can be used as a way to represent and express ourselves and object that can come into our everyday lives. To me colour helps 

Blue

• Sky
• Flashing Lights
• College (lots of blue around)
• Relaxing
• Calming
• Corporate

Green

• Grass
• Limes
• Trees
• Apples
• Environmental

Yellow

• Lemons
• Sand
• Hazard
• Sunlight

Red

• Tomato
• Blood
• Warning
• Horror
• Emergency

Construction Toy

Geomag

Geomag was created in 1998 and consists primarily of nickel-plated steel balls and short connecting sticks with a magnet on the rods on each end. A huge number of geometric shapes and structures can be built using the two basic elements Adding panels helps to form rigid structures. Geomag can be used also to make experiments with magnetism and moving structures.




There are several other toy systems that are similar to Geomag. Many of them may seem compatible with Geomag but the reality is that they are not totally compatible. This is due to the precise length of bar needed to create true geometric forms which are consistent and stable.

Geomag is the owner of many patents and the only one produced in respect of the european standard EN 71 law which specifies safety requirements for all toys sold in the European Union.

Magnabuild Construction Kit

Magnabuild Construction Kit

The task for today was to come up with a design for a construction kit. I was put with John and Shan in a group of three.


MagnaBuild is the lastest magnetic construction kit. Consisting of  metal cubes and green cuboids varying in different lenghts with magnetic bits on each end.

This kit comes in cubes and cuboids as oppose to shperes and rods. This helps keep creations more stable and to prevent any sudden collapsing.

What have I learnt?

I have learnt that if you're gonna work in group, you need to put up with and alternate any potential suggestions are are either just not helping or could be a potential problem.

Alien GIF

I started off the gif by taking individual photos of myself using 'Photo Booth.'

After that, I opened each individual photo in PhotoShop to apply the green for the alien effect. I did this by using the 'Quick Selection' tool and sometimes the 'Lasso' tool to select the part of my face that my hand just went over and made adjustments in Properties > Selective Colour.



To save it as a GIF file i went to 'File', clicked on 'Save for web' and exported it using the right settings.