IMAGE FILE TYPES

IMAGE FILE TYPES:
The most common by far are GIF and JPEG. Both of these encode static bitmap images. Both GIF and JPEG images compress themselves in different ways. In a GIF image, can show up to 256 pixels where as JPEG can show lots more. GIF is mostly used for icons, or littly images whereas JPEG is most used of larger photographs or images. In JPEG file has much more complex techniques to compress images, like the photographs. where the colour of every pixel is different. A GIF can make a perfect reproduction of the the orginal whereas JPEG cant. Animated GIF is a sequence of GIF files all bonded together and showed one after the other. You can get very reliastic animation if you have enough panes. The size of the file is the sum of GIF  files used to create the sequence, and that can add up quickly. An MPEG file uses a complex alogrithm, just like the JPEG file does. It tries to eliminate reduce reptition between frames to significantly compress a video information. MPEG files also alow soundtrack whereas the Animated GIF do not. MPEG files size can get quite large considering the a typical squence has hundreds or thousands of frames. Shockwave provides a vector-bse aninmation capability. A shockwave file specifies the coordinates of shapes such as lines, rectangles, circles etc. as well as the colour. Unlike the other files which specify only the colours of every pixel. Shockwave files can be very small in size unlike the MPEG. They allow animation and sound, the images of it are also scalable because they are vector-based. One great quality of shockwave files is that you can enlarge the image yet it'll look great.

Entry 5: The End!

This was a fun task. Making an animation seemed really hard at the start but it seems no big deal. This assignment was fun and entertaining experience. This is my last post for this project. I hope I have made an good animation, for my house Mercedes. Sketch-star was atlast the best animation site. It made making animation for everyone fairly easy. Thanks to Mr. Cavill who introduced sketchstar to us.

Entry 4: My animation

Since I was doing my animation on Sketchstar there was no format in which my animation was getting saved in. It was just saving on the website and it did not mention which image format it was using.  I was aiming for half-a-second per frame, but it ended being less than that. The final size was six seconds and 29 frames. The animation has been completed and already posted to my blog, enjoy!

Entry 3: My animation process

I started to do my original animation today. My creation process was:
1). I looked for backgrounds and finally chose an under the sea background.
2).I copied the background to around 15-16 frames.
3). Then I chose an creature that lives under the sea. It was a dolphin.
4). At the first I thought of ideas as to what to do with that background and the creature.
5). Than I  thought of writing EAT! in all the other house colours except Mercedes. So then frame by fram I did that.
6). After that I slowly moved the dolphin towards the EAT! and frame by frame the dolphin completely ate the EAT!
7). As the dolphin was moving a Mercedes letter was slowly forming as if the dolphin was trying to overtake the other houses and showing Mercedes. This was also done frame by frame.
And that is how I made my animation! It was not all done in one lesson since first I made an unneat one and then a original one. =]

Entry 2: For my animation

After many tries and random experiments on making a Mercedes animation, I still did not know what to do. I started looking for other animation programs because I thought miniclip did not have enough things to make my animation. It had enough but we would have to be a member of it which was costing money. So I wasted a whole lesson looking for other animation sites. I looked at flux time animations, but it would not save your animation and it was hard to operate. I looked at animation.com but that just explained how to make an animation and for making an animation you had to be member which costed money. I looked at many other websites but none of them were good. So I came back to miniclip sketch star. The first try that I was to finalise was that the back ground would on the moon and the rocket is going over the moon and the steam coming of it will say Mercedes. I had a go trying that but it did not work out because steam looked messy because it was not real steam blue coloured and it did not look original. So I left that idea and went to another one. It was related to under the sea. I kept to that idea and worked on it for the rest of the days. And at the end that was my original idea. :)

Entry 1: For my animation

I started off using pencil for my animation, but I did not know how to make an animation in pencil. So then later we got introduced to Sketch Star on miniclip. It was really a helpful site for making animations; it had objects, puppets, creatures and backgrounds that we were able to use. It made making an animation fairly easy. So then I used Sketch Star for making my animation. The complications I had were that I did not know what kind of animation I should do or make. Some of the ideas were: having a balloon blast and than that saying Mercedes, another one was having a girl blow the balloon and leave it and the air coming out would say Mercedes. But after a lot of experiments I still wasn’t able to make an animation like that. =]

MY ANIMATION!

olympic rings...

I made this on paint.net...i had problems at the start making this but once i understood what to do it was really easy....you just had to make circles on top of each other thats all...whereas i was finiding ways to bring the circle under one another and over..it was a easyy task.. :))