Walking Man Animation:
Here is the animation of my walking man, this was created in director and I have some scanned in images for this particular page.
For this task I was asked to create a walking man animation, but with myself as the character. I asked to get a panoramic image, and then I would add my own movement image onto this panorama image to make it look like I was walking. Below is my screen shots of the steps which I have taken for this particular task. First thing to do was to take a series of images of my walking by putting the camera on continuous burst to get the movement of me walking. I opened these images up into Photoshop and used the magic eraser tool to remove most of the background, I also used the normal eraser tool to get rid of the little details that stayed around quite close to my body. I made my images smaller, I put the height to 800 so that my final image would be quite small. I found a panoramic image from Google and then I imported this, and my images into Director.
The first images shows how I did the importation and the second ones show what setting I used to import them. I created a film loop so that the image of me walking would carry on without hesitation. I had to add in a moving image so I chose a UFO to go along with my villain Alien theme. I took this into Photoshop, I then removed the background so I was just left with the UFO and saved it to my desktop and imported it to Director. I then chose where I wanted it and then I added in a few keyframes so that would move into a curve motion, here I have a screen shot to show this. I had to add a speech bubble in too, so for this I used the custom shape tool in Photoshop and used a speech bubble, I then decided to change the colour to black and I added some text. I then flattened the image and removed the background then I saved it as a PSD on my desktop. I then imported this into Director and placed it where I wanted the speech bubble to be shown. I was also asked to do a close - up of the this, so I split the image of the background and the image of me and then I did the same where I wanted the close - up to end. Then I made the images bigger and I then moved it to its appropriate place. Then once the animation had been played, it would look like I had zoomed in on that particular shot.
The first images shows how I did the importation and the second ones show what setting I used to import them. I created a film loop so that the image of me walking would carry on without hesitation. I had to add in a moving image so I chose a UFO to go along with my villain Alien theme. I took this into Photoshop, I then removed the background so I was just left with the UFO and saved it to my desktop and imported it to Director. I then chose where I wanted it and then I added in a few keyframes so that would move into a curve motion, here I have a screen shot to show this. I had to add a speech bubble in too, so for this I used the custom shape tool in Photoshop and used a speech bubble, I then decided to change the colour to black and I added some text. I then flattened the image and removed the background then I saved it as a PSD on my desktop. I then imported this into Director and placed it where I wanted the speech bubble to be shown. I was also asked to do a close - up of the this, so I split the image of the background and the image of me and then I did the same where I wanted the close - up to end. Then I made the images bigger and I then moved it to its appropriate place. Then once the animation had been played, it would look like I had zoomed in on that particular shot.
Here is the chosen panoramic image which I found from Google.
This is the last image of me walking, here I had just deleted the background in Photoshop.
This was the second image of me walking, and again I had just finished deleting the background in Photoshop,
Here I got the UFO from Google and I deleted the background, and made it tilt in Photoshop.
Here this image shows about image size and what size I should have my final images of me walking. I set these too 2.46 cm wide, and 4.38 cm high.
Here is all the animation located in Director, all I'm missing here in this screen shot was the speech bubble.
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Here is the final image of my UFO with the background gone and still in Photoshop.
Here is the first image of me walking here in Photoshop.
Here I tilted the UFO to make it look like it was flying / moving side to side in Photoshop.
Here was my Speech Bubble which I again, created in Photoshop.
Here is another screen shot of me walking, with a moving background and the time line, again you cannot see the Speech Bubble.
Here is the screen shot of where you can see my director screen shot, with the speech bubble located in the time line as well.
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