Animated Life Lessons

My Team mates were William and Andrew. They were really chill and like to laugh and crack jokes. Andrew is one of those people who like to crack really funny jokes. William is one of those sparkle plentys who like to get his work done on time and neat. Then there's me, i'm like both of them combined. If the projects important I do it like many days before, If it doesn't seem important to me than I do it the night before. I also like to help people fix their problems and find fun things to do. In our story it exaggertaes these features by having me go help them find things they like to do. Then they practice a lot.
In our story we use humor in andrew's part when he is trying to practice telling jokes. In the script I laugh but my laugh is a sarcastic laugh. Our life lesson is that you should do something with your life and not just sit on the couch doing nothing. I think that this relates to the audience because they all have something that they are passionate for and could not be doing it but after watching maybe they would want to do what they like to do. Take andrew in the movie at first he was doing a silly chicken dance then when i met him they got motivated to do that.

Considering that we never worked together ever before our productivity levels were pretty high. Unlike if I worked with some friends I stayed pretty in the lines and didn't talk as much as I would of with my friends. The best moment during production was probably when we were all working really hard to get the scenes done. I think one of the biggest challenges were probably trying to get all the animation b- roll to fit the audio. Other than that we worked really good and were really great as a team, I think so anyway.

Character Development

Hi guys is Meleana! In this first paragraph my teacher Mr. Sanderl asked us to share what kind of people we are and some imperfections. Im the kind of person that cares about her family and friends, and always worries about her grades. Im also the kind of person that likes to get her work done but also is a really big procrastinator.  Some funny imperfections that I have is that when people eat with their mouth open I get irrated by that. I also get irrated with the noise your mouth makes when you chew food like a cow. Another imperfection that I have is when someone says something or does something weird I slap them.

SOme character traits that I plan to exaggerate while animating myself is my humourous side. I will add in some dance moves like the dab. I will also add in the character trait of me being quiet and me being really talkitive . I also plan to exaggerate my stupidity. I feel like I know a lot of stuff because i'm in honors and G.T but then when I dont know an answer I usually have my friend ashley in those classes so I will be like, Ashley what do we do or Ashley I need help. I could add in my character trait of dancing and dabbing by using puppet warp. I could use the puppet warp to make my mouth move and have like the words from a text box. For me to ask really dumb questions I could add in a text box while using the puppet warp to move my mouth.


When I created my .GIF we first had to take pictures. Mr. Sanderl  my teacher took pictures of us in front of a green screen so that it would be easier to cut out. When we cut ourselves out we used the quick selection tool which " quickly selects" what your trying cut out really easyily. Next step to making our .gif animation is creating a new document with the name of KeaweM_Character. We then drag our picture that we cut out into that file. When you go into that file you have to make sure that it is in the window called animation. After that you pretty much add new frames and and new layer so that you can puppet warp. When you finish the animation make all the frames 0.1 seconds so it's fast enough to see it all and look interesting. When you finish it at the end make sure that you save it for web & devices. The lower the percentage the faster it will load.