Design Assignment #1: Animate a Classic Painting (4 stars)

For this assignment, I chose to use The Scream by Edvard Munch to animate. I either wanted to animate the figure’s screaming face, or the boat in the background. I felt like animating the boat would bring more attention to the background of the painting. To create the animation, I saved a picture of the painting and uploaded it into GIMP as a layer. Using the selection tool I cut and saved a picture of the boat as a new image. I then used the clone stamp tool to remove the boat from the picture. I duplicated this “blank boat” layer adding the separate boat image into each frame, making the boat move a little to the left in each frame.

Problems
I was very mad at myself for forgetting that each frame only represents an eighth of a second of the animation. I realized this after exporting the GIF animation and playing it back. The boat is going crazy! If the boat had gone slower (duplicating each frame 8 times) the animation would look more believable. This was a lesson learned!

Design Assignment #1: Animate a Classic Painting (4 stars)

For this assignment, I chose to use The Scream by Edvard Munch to animate. I either wanted to animate the figure’s screaming face, or the boat in the background. I felt like animating the boat would bring more attention to the background of the painting. To create the animation, I saved a picture of the painting and uploaded it into GIMP as a layer. Using the selection tool I cut and saved a picture of the boat as a new image. I then used the clone stamp tool to remove the boat from the picture. I duplicated this “blank boat” layer adding the separate boat image into each frame, making the boat move a little to the left in each frame.

Problems
I was very mad at myself for forgetting that each frame only represents an eighth of a second of the animation. I realized this after exporting the GIF animation and playing it back. The boat is going crazy! If the boat had gone slower (duplicating each frame 8 times) the animation would look more believable. This was a lesson learned!