Amelia Sims's Blog

This post is a tutorial of how to write your name on a computer.  If you follow the steps below you can write your name easily. The end result will be the close to the GIF to the right. 1. The first step is to open photoshop and create a 150 x 600 pixel document. Once you have done that, choose a font that you like and type your name. It can be any font, but types of cursive work better. 2. After you do step one, you have to rasterize the layer. Do this by right clicking on the layer and going to the Rasterize Type button. Next, you crop the page so that your name is in the center. After you do that copy the layer. Do this by pulling the layer down to the small button that looks like a piece of paper with the corner folded over. 3. After the layer is copied erase a small piece off the last letter. Do this as if you are writing your name backwards. Next you copy the layer and then erase more of the letter on that layer. Remember that you have to hid...

This week  I made an animation of ten words that describe us. I used the principles that we had already learned to create it. This time instead of using a frame by frame animation I used a video timeline animation. I put a picture in as the background and based the word colors off of it.

This is my second animation! I used a technique we learned last week squash and stretch again, which is what I used on my last animation. This animation was more complex because it had more movement of the ball, which results in more frames. At the end we got to make it go off the screen however we wanted. Some people made it roll off. Others made it disappear, but I decided to make it fall off my name. To do that I used anticipation because right before it fell off it slowed down. I also decided to make two different colored faces because I had extra time. I hope you like it!