.gif animation making process.

Am currently making gif animations for my uni project. Since we have an assessment on Monday(YES that's THIS Monday.!), we're all busily finishing our work off and labelling the ones from other units, writing essay(s) and panicking about. That's one of five gif animation in series I need to submit for current unit.

The project is called 'Fact' - we chose one exhibit from the museums given on the list to visit, studied the object or objects from one big category of the exhibit, did a good research. I just knew what I was going to do about - a bagpipe. Living only 5 min away from Horniman museum really helped a lot for my primary research. Then I went up to Glasgow(where my heart is.!) for a few days, visited the National Piping Centre's great wee museum/gallery and a few kool places. (will blog about this later on -probably after the assessment)

We were given to choose one from five different formats for the final outcome - I chose gif animation set as I wanted to illustrate how it's made/how it sounds/how the bag moves when it's being filled with air/etc. It wasn't easy to do since it had been so many years last time I did any animation work, but am actually beginning to enjoy it a lot.

Here's my first attempt - an animation to explain how a piece of wood becomes a drone joint of a bagpipe.

Although I quite like it looking organic and its colour scheme, I didn't feel very happy with it. So I spent another two hours to give it another go, with different drawing style and all.

So here it is. Much better looking and very much ALIVE. Also easier to understand how a drone joint is made from a wood(originally trimmed from a tree). Am happy with the result, will do the other four with the same style.

* copied from my blog : ame616.tumblr.com