10 Strengths Animation

The Overview

This GIF was my third E comm animation project! This GIF was actually supposed to be a video but I will get back to that in a bit but the GIF was an animation of a activity called "10 strengths" and what we did was come up with 10 strengths about our character that make you who you are. We came up with the words outside of Photoshop (PS for short) and then created the animation.

The Process of Creating the Animation

The animation process was MUCH easier in this project because we did not have to create each frame/layer, this is because instead of creating a Layered animation we created a video time line to work with. This allowed us to create the project much faster and it was less grinding through the project and more of thinking what we wanted to do with it. So before we ever used PS for this project we developed 10 strengths mine being Competitive, Extrovert, Planner, Focus, Responsibility, Strategic, Energetic, Social, Funny, and Analytical. We also selected a background image and I decided to go with a lightning bolt because of my electric personality (If you know me then you defiantly know what im talking about.) Once we got into PS we created 11 layers, 10 word layers and a background image layer. Before we did anything else we could edit the background image with different filter and color adjustments. Once we did this we created a video and edited the layers. Each layer was given a timeline and you could edit how long you had it in the video, where it came from, and how it got there and the overall size of the layer/ word. I had the background stay during the entire video but the words came in differently.

Problems That I Encountered

There was only one real issue with the project. The file type. The file was saved as a GIF file which is different from a video file, this was an issue for just about half of my class so it was not an actual fault of mine. This problem was resolved by just making it a GIF file instead of a video.

The Final Product

The final product was just what I was thinking it would look like because I am kinda familiar with these types of animation but it still looks really cool in my opinion!

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