This animation represents my view on anger, and how it is ultimately short lived, having an event that sets it off like a fuse leading to the ultimate explosion that releases the emotion.
I used a combination of motion tweens, symbols and frame by frame animations alongside one another to compile this somewhat short representation of the emotion.
I was unable to correct the strange desync from my draft so to work around it I used the motion tween of the pencil to rewrite the word along its path. This kept the majority of my drafts work intact to complete the animation as a whole.
I chose to go with the emotion of anger, this is a draft of the opening to the animation I had in mind. Not entirely sure how it got out of sync. I thought the Pencil writing the word would be fun to animate.
So, this week was hectic. The workload across all of my classes was quite heavy. This week’s start into Adobe Animate ended up low on the priority list as I am familiar with Flash, the software that Animate evolved from. I wouldn’t boast of being any good with it, but I did play with it a lot in the past.
I decided to go with a very simple sequence. Blue rectangle falls over into the shot, inchworms its way across the canvass and tips back up. It’s not as cleanly done as I would like, but it’s almost midnight.
Portrait of a Place – Napping at the campsite. Spring 2025 Edited in Audacity
Using audacity to mix a collection of samples together to create a short scene of camping. Layering the sounds of nature with cicadas, frogs, and a crackling fire to set the ambiance. With some feedback I added a few things to bring this from more of an ambiance focused track to an actual scene of events.
I used a few minor effects, mainly sound gate to clean up some of the audio. Fading to ease in some of the sounds and adjusting volume of individual clips. As well as clipping and spacing some of the sounds to space them out along the runtime of the project.
Sources: “Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0 Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023 https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/
“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011 https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/
“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0 Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009 https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/
“Lighting Matches.wave” by GM180259 CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. November 4th, 2019 https://freesound.org/people/GM180259/sounds/491254/
“snore_okm2_t3.flac” by ermine CC CC BY NC Freesound.org. December 19th, 2006 https://freesound.org/people/ermine/sounds/27405/
“thunder1.wave” by nednednerb CC0 Freesound.org. July 31st, 2007 https://freesound.org/people/nednednerb/sounds/38244/
“Startled, Tortured, and Terrified (Man)” by ericnorcross01 CC0 Freesound.org. June 13th, 2021 https://freesound.org/people/ericnorcross81/sounds/575674/
I added and adjusted to the positions of some of the audio samples. Added some fade in/out. Generally, the same premise as before. Not entirely sure what you mean by complicate it? So now there’s a snoring man, you’re not alone… it’s complicated?
Sources: “Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0 Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023 https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/
“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011 https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/
“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0 Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009 https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/
“Lighting Matches.wave” by GM180259 CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. November 4th, 2019 https://freesound.org/people/GM180259/sounds/491254/
“snore_okm2_t3.flac” by ermine CC CC BY NC Freesound.org. December 19th, 2006 https://freesound.org/people/ermine/sounds/27405/
The first layered segments of audio compiled for our Audio Portrait project. I wanted to capture the ambiance of being camped out under the stars, sitting by the fire, with nature around you.
Sources: “Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0 Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023 https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/
“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011 https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/
“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0 Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009 https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/
Taking some feedback from the previous submission. And fighting with making a convincing shadow for a while, a new idea sprang up, if I couldn’t create a convincing shadow, I would remove the need for it. I adjusted the position of the Mandelorian in the frame. Creating a new mask from the background to bring one of the cannons forward so that the character could be positioned beside/behind it. I also spent a little time playing with the levels a little more so the character would not be completely in shadow and retain a little more detail. I felt adding any text, or additional details would make it messy and detract from the simpler nature of it all.
I present to you, a Mandalorian manning the cannons as my composite. I adjusted the levels a little. Though mainly worked with a gradient mask to turn it black and white and a photo filter combined with some noise and a spherical gradient overlay to really try and capture that grungy old crappy camera vibe.
This is the first time I have used Photoshop since the changeover from a perpetual license to a subscription service. Just a simple composition of fire made from shapes using the pen tool, a few selections of yellow/orange and red, and unique blending selections for each of the inner shapes. I wanted to keep it fairly simple as a first composition for this class as it’s been a significant time since I last even considered using photoshop.
