Building Rich Animations on a Low Budget
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Animation (a-nė-mā-shėn) n. The rapid display of a sequence of images in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision. Low Budget (lō buj-it) n. Short deadlines that do not allow you time to learn a new software program, such as Flash, nor enough money to hire an expert.
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Presented at the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions 2010 conference by Donna Safko. Shows simple animation effects using hand drawn images photos animated in Premiere, Photoshop and PowerPoint.
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Animation (a-nė-mā-shėn) n. The rapid display of a sequence of images in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision.
Low Budget (lō buj-it) n. Short deadlines that do not allow you time to learn a new software program, such as Flash, nor enough money to hire an expert.
Gorilla Marketing:
An unconventional system ofpromotions that relies on
time, energy and imaginationrather than a big marketing budget.
Gorilla Animation:
the use of imagination and unconventional methods to save time and money.
• Character
• Genre
• Prop
• Line of Dialogue
• Genre - Detective/Cop
• Character - Tina or Tim Flagler,an unemployed musician
• Prop - a Tire
• Line of Dialogue -“I need to leave in a minute”
• Magic Wand
• Channel Mask
• Extract Filter
• Background Eraser
• Pen Tool
• Magnetic Lasso
720 x 480Non-Square pixels
Save Aseach layer as a jpg
(Save as .png if doing all layering in Premiere or After Effects)
Not avideo person?
Animate inside of Photoshop
Not really that comfortable animating in Photoshop?
Drop jpgs into PowerPoint
Quick Lip Sync Effect
1. Closed Mouth
2. Open Mouth
3. Mid Mouth
4. Open Mouth
5. Closed Mouth
Closed > Open > Mid > Open > Closed
Not An Artist?
• Ask around the office.
• Play Pictionary.
• Use your camera.
Photomotion
• Animating a sequence of photographs
Inspiring Photomotion
I didn’t know PowerPointcould do that!
http://pptheaven.mvps.org/
Using Word 2003
Get Creative andHave Some Fun!
