My Story Board

 These are my story boards a bit tatty but are what I was planning to make the comic from.

i used these even after I couldn't not make all the frames and images.

My Evaluation

I am a bit dissapointed with my comic, because I didn't not account for the time I had and had to change alot also I never added any of my buttons which I really wanted too!!. the story was shortened to well it doesn't really have an ended and looks half baked.
I am pleased how ever with the look I have achieved , the images look constant and in the same style. and all give the look I am trying to achieve. I eventually got used to flash and managed to make motions which didn't look cheep and tacky.
I ended up loosing one of the images which would of been a image which would have been zoomed into many times to achieve different looks of parts of the city, i ended up quickly drawing it on the last day, but was happy enough with the result.
If i had a week longer I reckon I could have completed it to the standard I originally wanted.

i wish i slowed down some scenes and finished one off ,
the scene with the helicopters flying out of the city should be slowed down
also the scene with the monster being shot in the city needed to be slowed down.
and that one with the monster should have faded with the smoke coming in.
I am very pleased that I managed to get to grips with flash and that i did manage to make the whole film very quickly once I got that hang of it.

I liked the fact i could contribute using hand drawn things and also use photo shop to add more colours or refine images , and i even learnt a style of drawing though it .

i enjoyed this project once it started to roll, and am glad I learnt how to use flash.


Callum and sasha did an evaluation for my comic

Evaluation of callum comic

I think the comic has a great colour balance being very attractive to watch, and in very interactive containing many buttons which bring you more into it and keep your attention focus.

However some of the speech bubbles do not show the entire sentence in it
so I  believe you should change this . as it will pretty much make it perfect

Some of my work

All the images below i drew in photo shop and turned the sections into png's so they could be manipulated.
The png file was useful because it allowed the images to have no back ground which made it easy to manipulate only the image and no back ground.


 This is an image i animated for the turret to turn on top of the tank.
I created this i photo shop and made all the area's separate and saved them as png's.

I put 3 key frames in one on the left one in the middle and one at the right.



first key frame

second key frame

Third key Frame(image will load if you click it.

an image idraw in photo shop imported to flash and added other images,planes . and explosions via flash tools.

explosions made through flash
involving many key frames which made the explosions look gradual. and more effective and ral in a why.

Lizard/Hippo

Lizard/Hippo

 This was the back ground image we worked up from.

Today we where given a totorial in mergeing  two pictures together makeing them look inplace on one another, we hot 2 images a hippos head and a lizard. we used the lizard as a back ground and put the hippos head in another layer and worked it into blending with the main image of the lizard . 
  

Use free transform, and then shift to move it at the same scale/proportion, then move over the head of the lizard I added an adjustment layer of colour balance.

 I added an adjustment layer of colour balance.  And Moved the colours ratios to +32 +82 -91. this was one of the best greens that went with the green originaly from the lizard.

Using a mask I deleted the removed and  faded parts of the hippo’s head to make it look more natural and in place.

Changing the opacity effected how strong the brush was

Using the stamp tool I covered over the nose with a section of the back ground.  Which covered up the lizard’s nose, covering it with a background

over all ithnk that is came out as well as i wanted because it looks all like one picture not loads of diffrent parts stuck onto a lizard.

this has also helped to progress my photoshop skills and i feel more confident using masks and adjustment layers.

Small animation through photo shop

This is a gif of the small animation i made through photo shop which took loads of layers on and off to create !

it moved left to right dancing, if you wish too see the file ask and ill send it too you woo.

Evaluation of my work

James dyers Evaluation

I really enjoyed the effort and progress made in James’s animation he has put a lot of time and thought in to his piece I really enjoyed the characters in his piece it’s a bit slow in some parts but a really good use of contrast and colours and good use of creative thinking for his animation. I am really impressed how he was managed to complete his work when he’s hardly been here, really good work James

Written by sascha tucker 

The story.

The story is set in a normal city , just going about regular day, and astroids/meteors will be showen in space, once this hit the city a living creature will apear and start to reak havok about teh city. the city will be level and sirens going off everywhere.
while the civilians escape the military try to kill the monster down failing each time.it seems to get more agressive each time, when it final gets pinned and looks like the military is winning missiles rain down form the sky destroying everything and leaveing very little, but success the monster is finaly killed at the cost of a city. the camra will pan out showing the same angle as when the first ones came in but their willbe a few more, then it will zoom out showing earth in the centre and surrounded my meteors .


A twist i was thinking of adding was nukes where fired but then every countrie started war agianst each toher  destroying the world by them self, but ... its not as intresting as the ending i have chosen. in my opinion.

Traditonal and Digital methods

Traditional:

• Unique - its easyier to get a unique feel to a  hand drawn image( i think personaly) where as  digitaly you can get cheep looking images which people say that looks "Photo shoped". plus smudgeing something with your hand is a bit diffrent form a photo shop tool. or even the ageing of art can do this.

• Portable  - can draw on the spot , do not need to wait for load times or have a limit to how long you can draw for.

• can get more textures - useing natural things cut or

• achieve more natural looking effects -

• add depth - movement oh your hands and  objects you can sue can create patterns or effects which make the picture more then just a picture and something that has a meaning to it. 

• Possibly cheeper - going into industry both need good tools. a real version of photo shop costs around £1000 , so pens pencils brushs and paperare probely cheeper. how ever, it could be possible to get it cheeper on the pc depending on where your going with it and waht spec's.
  

Digital:

• eviromentaly friendly - no waste, no trees cut down to create them. cheeper in the long run even though fuel is being burnt. 

• Possibly cheeper, having all the bush's allready thier not needing to go out and buy loads of tools and specialist equiptment.

• less hazards - no toxic substances, loads of tools that could be dangerous if left out wrong or used inaproprately

• Long lasting - Saved to a hard drive can be backed up, will not wear away, tarnish , loose colours in light.

• Easy to transport - can be sent in an email . dosnt need trucks or a transpoter to be paid so it is also cheeper in that sense too

• Easy to mass produce -  for instance images , you can just  pressss print , even if you wanted to mass produce a picture you would ahve to scan it in so it was digital and then print it via that.  

• Easily editable - can come back to something years later whe the tools are ready or more advanced for waht you wanted. 

Things i have used so far.

Traditional methods 

i have used pen and paper to plan my story and create a story board. 

Also i have drawn two of my main scenes and things on paper

and pre drawn things ive designed on the pc so i knew what id want.

 Graphic pads -  this combines traditional with digital. this allows greater control and accuracy and also cutting out a process like scanning. 

Digital methods 

Photo shop - to drawn other scenes and keep teh same tones and even make a copy of the file and edit things on it to create the next scene. 

Flash - to animate images and bring all the scenes together.

Scanner - i used the scanner to put in some of my images and edit them in photo shop.

I have managed to use a nice balance of both at the momment and and keeping the work contantish, and good. flash is a bit weird , but ill ge tused to it. 

I would see a major disadvantage in only using one . as alot of traditional and digital methods melt quite well together and i would strong argue against only using one of them , although its completely drawing on  photoshop is completely diffrent from paper you can also achieve effects you cant  if you did it on paper . i think this is the same for most things. that have a digital and traditional side.