Questions for Animation! (5)

•   Describe what software you used and why you chose it.

 I am using Inkscape because i have been using it the whole term and i understand how to use it. Inkscape is a draw program, This means that it remembers shapes and colours. The program has simple tools that have have learnt to use.

• Ø  Describe the creation process you followed.

To make my animation i used clip art on Inkscape to find a vector image of a dinosaur. after this took each object and made it purple to represent the house Dobson. Using the circle tool i typed each letter into one circle to make it spell out 'GO DOBSON'. i rotated the letters and moved the dinosaur around using the arrows exporting the image each time. After i had enough frames i copied all the frames into movie maker and put it all together.

• Ø  What image format were you saving your work in during development of the frames?

During the development of my frames i saved my work as Inkscape SVG

• Ø  What image format did you save your frames as?

I saved the frames as a PNG (Portable Network Graphic). A PNG is a bitmap image format

• Ø  What frame rate were you aiming for?

I was aiming for a frame rate of 10 frames per second. I have a frame rate of approx. 9 frames per second

• Ø  What difficulties did you encounter and how did you overcome them?

During my animation i experienced many difficulties many times Inkscape stopped working, freezing and force closing. Resulting in me having to start and re create the images. I forgot to set a background so by default my background was black. But when i added the frames to movie maker the background changed to white

• Ø  What is the final size of your animation?

The final size of my animation is 2.00 mb
It has a frame width of 1440

And a frame hight of 1080