Assesment-4

Ok I promised to tell you how I made my animation, and well, I keep my promises. So let's move onto the next step.

Wait a minute.. before you do any work on inkscpe. you need to go to file, then document properties and click on the checked pattern to get rid of the transperancy on the page, and if you want add another colour as the background. Oh, and don't forget to set the right size for your canvas. For my purposes I make my canvas 600 by 600 pixels.

Step 2: Draw Me Ready
To get my animation I needed to make frames, and to make frames I need characters in them, to move around, and well unless we somehow found magic in this world, we have to draw them.

I'd say out of this whole task drawing the animation would have been the most time consuming. First we have to get the images you found and put them into inkscape. Then we get the bezier tool. You could use this great tool to simple click on the lines you want to trace and double click to finish. Tada you just traced your image. Well it may not look exactly like the image you traced but with a bit of work you'll barely be able to tell the difference.

Ok, you might think it looks a bit pointy at the moment, but trust me with the help of the nobe tool (which says 'edit paths by nodes' when you put your mouse over it). What does this funny looking tool do? you may ask. Well lucky you came to me cause I know.

Try clicking on the image traced and guess what, a whole bunch of little squares apear, and you know whats weird their exactly where you clicked to trace the image. I'd drawn all my other images but i left the mice's tail to showyou how I did it. Click on one of the squares and hold down shift as you click the other points you want to smooth out. Once you have all the right sections selected you'll relise that on the top end (not exactly at the very top but at the top, why bother explaining when I cain show you), yeah right there (look at the following image).

That's right there you'll see some curved symols with similar squares in the center of them and if you want to draw and image just click on that with the square you want to curve selected.


As you can see. I did just that for the tail that i wanted to give my mouse.


And once you have that done you're ready to add some colour into this plain thing to get it to look exactly like how you want it to. To colour you simply right click over the image and chose 'fill and strock'.

Tell you a trick, after geting yoiu strock the right tickness and colore you want you just got to go down to the colours on the bottom and select the one you want to fill. There are like fifty different colours there, nearly all shades and colours.

For the purpose of my mouse I choose a grey colour, to give it a micy look.

I had gone through the same process with all the view of my mice but as it comes to my clock it has a bit of a different twist.

Keep reading to explore IST with N.P ( said " explore IST with N dot P)...

 These are screen shots of some of my creation process of the mouse from the from view: