Digitise your Flip Book

Today we are going to Digitise your flip books. You will scan in your contact sheets, edit them in GimpShop, export to iPhoto and finally animate the process using iMovie.

Animation Skills

Today we looked at creating a flip book. This should consist of at least 30 frames and be finished for next week, when we will be digitising them.



Having also had a look at the history of animation, you should collect examples of each of the main animation breakthroughs we discussed and submit images or videos to your blog.

Finally we also had a look at Animation styles. Likewise, you should find some up to date examples of each of the main styles that is currently on TV - Drawn Animation, Cut-Out Animation, Model Animation, CGI and Rotoscoping. Justify why each of your examples fits the profile with a short description.

Web Content Feedback

Feedback was given out today on your Web Content submissions. If you were off this week, ensure that you come and see me to find out what you have that is still outstanding.

As the final submission date has passed, all outstanding work must be submitted, both on your blog and in hand copy (printed) to me. As we have started the next unit, all outstanding work will have to completed in your own time and submitted to me at very latest by remediation week at the end of this term.

whiteboard

HTML Template

Open up TextEdit on your computer, then copy and paste this text; (Change all the () brackets to <>)

html

head

/head

body

/body

/html

This is the basic html framework within which you will create html page.

New Computers

New computers are due to be installed, hopefully over the October Break. You must back up everything you have that is not already saved in your user profile. In particular your iPhoto libraries and iWeb sites.

• iPhoto Library – this is saved in the photos folder. Copy the iPhoto folder to your user profile. When you start iPhoto in any computer, hold down the “alt” button. You will then be prompted to choose a library and you can choose your own library.
• iWeb – This is located in the username > library > application support > iweb folder. Your iweb file is called “domain”. Copy this to your usb stick. When starting your website, click on this file and it will automatically start up iWeb with your files.
  

Week 6

You should be finishing your projects next week, with the aim of having them ready for evaluation and presentation the week we come back from the October Break. Therefore you should all be at the stage of having finished your research, all articles should now be completed at very least in a draft form and you should be typing them up if you haven’t already done so. The web designer in your group will now be running the show. This week you should be creating your webpages layout and navigation, ready for the final text to be added next week.