Assignment- 5

Continuing with Step 2: Draw Me Ready
The clock:
Ok, like all my other images I got a bitmapped image of the internet, of a cartoon grandpa clock, to draw easily. Ther when I thought about it my whole clock doesn't move around. All i needed as a vector image to move around was the handles and the ding dong thing on the bottom (not sure what it's really called). Anyway, I drew that separatly and hopes that  I could just place it on top to move around.

Then I was struck by my other problem. It's not coloured in and my solution to that was to take it into paint and colour it in. I got it coloured however I realised that it looked a bit messy. then I came up with my next solution to use ink scape to creat and out line for the clock, little did I realise that I was pretty much drawing my grandpa cloak even though I thought I would be easier not to.  So guess what I ended up donin more work then i intened to do. eaith way i still didn't have a moving clovk hace or ding dong thing, so I started to make my own.

The ding dong thing:
Easy to do and done with a few minutes. I got the circle tool to create and ovel shape which I was ro use as the  background of the ding dong thing. I filled it in black and make sure the strock colour's black as well, you would already know how to do that if you had read my last post so i'm no telling you.

Then I traced the ding dong thing on the bitmaped images and just made it a bit more curved on the edges. I made sure the colour was white and I was done as soon as I placed it in position.

The clock face:
To do this I simply drew a large white cirle over the originagl bitmaped circle.and drew a smaller white circle, with a dark stroke to place in the center. Then I clicked on the tool that looks like an A to 'create and edit text objects'.

I typed up each number (1-12) seperately to place around the face of the clock. Then well... I placed the numbers in order aroung the face of the clock and groupes them to the clock face. By going to 'Object' (on the tool bare at the top, in the row along side file) then scrolling down to press group, when i want them seperate I just ungroup them, under group.

Once I had all that ready all I was missing was the clock handles. I drew the hour and the minute handle soon to find out that I was going to mess up my frames and concept for this animation if i didn't have a seconds handle. So i drew a seconds handle.

So now I have my mice from different angles and my clock, all I needed was something to be my mouse's motive to climbe up the clock, and what better then a good piece of chese. Because the cheese wasn't going to do any major movement I simple got a nice pretty, yellow bitmaped cheese picture from google images.

Next step is to make my frames for my animation... keep reading to find out how...