Having the correct equipment is a very important thing when it comes to making anything. Therefore to make this Animation i had to go out and buy a few thing to help me out. I think that if i hadn't bought these things to be able to do my work at home and to become better on them, i don't think my animation would have been half as good as it is now.
One of the first things that i bought to help me out was a Wacom Bamboo Graphics Tablet. What this is is as a tablet were you get a pen and you draw on the tablet like you would with pen and paper. However when the pen is touching the tablet the pen then turns into a mouse. This means that i am able to do more fluid lined drawings and shade faster and more realistically then i would have been able to do with just the mouse. In my animation, everything you see in the scenes has been drawn and coloured in was all done by me, and to aid me to do this i used my Graphics Tablet.
The next thing that i have to aid me with my animation was my all-in-one Epson printer. This printer doesn't just print but it also as the functions of a photocopier and a scanner. It was the scanning capability that has really helped me out with this piece of equipment. This is because when i have sketched out one of my designs it means i can scan it into the computer and post it on my blog. It also means that i can use the drawn images as a template when i starting to draw my images in Photoshop.
Just because you have the equipment doesn't mean that its good enough for the job. For example you may have a computer to make an animation one, however if it has very low specification then it wont work very well compared to a high specification computer. This is the computer that i use to make my animation. Its a Lenovo H530s. This computer has an 8GB RAM meaning that it can handle big tasks and work with high end software such as Abode After Effects and is able to render the videos without freezing or crashing.
The most important piece out off of the equipment that i have is a new thing that Adobe has released and that 'Adobe Creative Cloud' What Adobe have done is, instead of making you buy one piece of software at a time for a lot of money, that have instead decided to give you all of the products for a monthly subscription. When i discovered this i thought i was the best idea very. Because i am a student in full time education i get the monthly subscription for more then half the price as a normal subscription. The main four software's that i use out of the package is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Photoshop is an important piece for this animation as this is were i create my backgrounds and create them in layers so when they are imported into aftereffects i can add effects to them to make them look better. Once the backgrounds are complete i then import the background into flash as a template to see where things should b animated to make them match the background. Once the animation is complete in Flash i then export the animation into a PNG Sequence. In After Effects i then import all the background layer, the animation and i start the editing such as blurs and zooms. I haven't yet used Premiere Pro however what i will be doing with is is adding the sounds into my animation.
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