The document describes the student's experiments in creating an animated character and game. For the character, the student used separate layers for the eyes to allow independent movement. They also added a glow effect that changed the entire character's color, which they decided to keep. For the game, the student designed a background and table, drew characters, and added frame-by-frame animation moving objects and scores. They exported the animation from Photoshop as a video and added self-made sound effects in Premiere Pro, though matching effects to frames was difficult due to lag. The student plans to include independently moving layers and self-made sound effects matching the game in their final product.

1. Experiments
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2. Process
With my experiment I decided to play around
and just to see what I could do. I decided to
make the characters eyes move and to do
this I had to make his right and left eye on
completely new layers so that I was able to
use the quick selection tool and move them
on each different frame. The quick selection
tool also came in useful when I made the
character change colour. What I did was
move the character from left to right and
then went to blending options and added a
outer glow. At first i only wanted the eyes to
glow up but when It changed the whole
colour of the character I liked how this looked
and chose to work with it and see what I
could do

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
In my final product I will include some of the techniques that I have used such as
when creating objects make sure to do them in layers so that I’m able make
changes easily and make certain parts of the objects move and change colour and
stuff due to creating different layers. If I had more time I would of made it more
advanced because this was very basic. I would of liked to of made the character
move.

4. Process
To make my experiment game I first designed the background by
using the paint bucket tool then I thought that it looked a bit too
boring so I decided to add a satin effect with the opacity to 78% so
that my background didn’t look too plain. I then designed the table
for my game which for this I used the rectangular marquee tool and
then the pencil tool to draw my table. The pencil tool also came in
useful when I had to draw my character. Once I drew all the
characters and had all of them in the table it I then began to start
the frame animation. I first had it set to 0.1 seconds however I then
realized that this was way too quick so I changed it to 0.5 however
then that was too slow so I decided to go with 0.3 because it wasn’t
too quick or too slow. I then had to go through every frame and
move what I wanted to change position. Then I had to make new
layers and use the pencil tool to write the score each time the
player matches 3 in a row. After I had all this done I then had to
resize it to 1080 by 720 pixels and this move objects out of place so
I then had to go through each single slides again making
adjustments. Once I had this I exported it in Photoshop as a video
and imported it to premiere pro and went on beep box to make my
own sound effects for the game. When editing in premiere pro it
was difficult to match up the sound effects with where i wanted
tem to go because of how much it lagged and kept glitching

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
In my final product I will include some sound effects that i will make myself as
this gives me more freedom as I can make what I want however I will make sure
it matches up with the game more

6. Process

7. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?