Today I have had to decide on a new idea. I have search the internet to have a look at some existing animations and also I have a look at some people from my class. After looking at some different ideas I then thought of my own.

My new idea was to have different images of different famous people I would then cut them up into a jigsaw style. I would then in the animation bring the images back together.

From now on all the work if for my new idea.

Today I have started making my third background. My idea was to have my car coming to a junction, in which they would then see one of their friends and shout of the window.

Before I started making my second background I decided that I would print my other backgrounds out and see what they looked like together, but once I had printed out my background and placed them together, I then realised that they didn’t match together, such as the sky was different. Because of this it would not make my transactions look smooth enough, as I wanted to make it look like it was a journey.

After a lot of thought I decided that I would start again from scratch, as I was not happy with the way my animation would have looked as a final product. This was a very hard decision due to all the work I had done already, but I think this will be better for my grades.

Next lesson I will be now planning my new animation all over again.

Today I have designed my car for my animation, I done this by taking an image of a car from the Internet. I then put this image into Photoshop so that I could edit it. For my car all I needed to do is to make my characters look as if they are sat in the car. I made my characters look as if they were sat in the car by using the lasso tool in Photoshop to select the window I wanted, to see them through, I then took the opacity down so you cou

ld see them. Now the only thing left to do was place my characters behind the window.

I think that this effect worked really well because it look very realist.

This is an image of the car I used. This is before I edited to put my characters in.

This is my car after i have edited it. in the next image i have zoomed in on the characters so that you can see my characters more clearly.

Here is an image I have zoomed in on my characters. I have zoomed in so that you can see my characters more clearly i am really please with the way my they have turned out as they look really realist.

Today I have started designing my second background, the idea for my second background is to have a field, so that in my animation it looks as if my journey is carrying on.
This background was quite straight forward compared to my first background, as I needed to do was find a field, which was very easy, and to find a horse, which was also easy. My idea for my second background was to have a field with a horse in it and I am going to have the horses head moving as the car is driving past.
First I found a field on the internet which I was happy which and once again I changed the sky as it was too dull. I then went to find a horse for the internet. I then had to find a fence to, keep the horse in. The fence was the hardest part of the background as I have it had to be the right size and the right angle. I then had to take it in Photoshop and remove the background from the fence image and remove the image from inside the fence.

IMAGE OF MY FIRST BACKGOURND< BEFORE AND AFTER

Today I have started designing my first background, the idea for my first background is to have a house, so that in my animation it looks as if my character have just got in their car and there journey is just starting.
I have a few problems when designing my first background as when I was searching the internet for images of a house I could not find a house with the right angle as I wanted one from the front, after a lot of searching I finally found a house but in the garden it had construction work going on, so I had to take my image into Photoshop and edit it, I done this by using the rubber tool to rub out the existing garden and then pasting in a different garden for another image. I then had to adjust it to fit my existing image, I done this by adding pavement. Once I had completed the garden I then add trees to the side of the house, a new sky as the other one was too dull and the fence either side of the house because it looked empty.