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1. Onion Skin butterfly stamp on the screen more towards the center and to the left Also resize the stamp making it a little smaller Continue to add the same butterfly image on multiple frames reducing the size of the image and the distance gt from the starting point on each frame Once you have 6 or 7 frames and your butterfly is small and near the top left side of the page press the Play Forward button to see your butterfly fly across the screen Play Forward The default delay speed of movement is 100 which means a tenth of a second per frame This makes the butterfly move rather quickly Note Setting the delay to 1000 will give a speed of one second per frame You can change the speed of the whole animation by using the Set Delay feature on the Animation menu You can also manually change the speed of each frame Click on the number below the frame and type in the new number The larger the number the slower the speed To change multiple frames at once to the same speed select all the frames and then right click Select Animation gt Set Delay and then type in a new number Click OK Try setting your delay to 200 for all frame items and then Play Forward inn ror cian Convert All to Frames again This will provide a more realistic movement of the butterfly Generate Alt 4G Edit Reverse Order Ctrl R Transform Minimize Ctrl M To save your image as animation choose th2. Rotate Skew One of the earliest animated films or cartoon films was called Skeleton Jangle in which some Jolly skeletons dance round a graveyard Use the Skeleton rna file from the Activity folder to try and make your own skeleton dance In this activity you will learn how to make an image move across the screen Stamps Open a new image This will be the first Frame of your animation Start by adding a background Go to the Stamp Browser and choose the Backgrounds category Choose the image of the sky grass and tree the fifth image in the list Click and drag it onto the screen With the selection box active around it right click and choose Use as Background from the drop down list Choose the Resize option from the pop out list This will now be the background for each new Frame added gt m ees m Now let s start your animation s e by adding an image For this example use the butterfly image found in the Animals category of the Stamp S ror ppenowemww w PPwrt Browser Click and drag the stamp image onto the screen s Position it near the bottom m s Se E right hand side of the screen Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Now add another Frame Turn the Onion Skin feature on This will allow you to see a shadow of the previous frame allowing for easier placement of the next image Place another instance of the
3. Animation menu click on Loop Frames This will deselect the looping feature Remember to save your animation as a gif Animation Resources Frames Loop Frames Frame Items d Heading Mode Set Delay Ctrl D Minimize Ctrl M Convert All to Frame Items Blend Ctrl E Generate Alt G Reverse Order Ctrl R Transform Alt T k d x 4b 4n 4k Ww Sa aii kA VU Y Jane Experiment with different colors try making a rainbow colored name different speeds using set delay or with adding images qe imum Sudin Image 1 inre Jie EM Wee Tem dua ba x cml a I Tx i Wo IH ow L P 3 i E 4b 4 ne 4h St Ww 4 A i Ir gt x Ar gt gt X n ii b gt IL ID k gt To make an image appear to move across the screen change the position or direction of it in each frame The series of frames below show re positioning of the ladybug in each frame When this animation is played you will see the ladybug move as the signature is done d la TIT lain lant ine w Nu w Nu zu mu an E s REE 200 200 Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Jane Jo Jay dan Jane 200 200 200 200 200 m ial Web Panner Web banners are used on web sites to advertise or highlight as a background Then layer your text and images on top items of interest This activity will teach you how to create a Add text and images Insert a new Frame item and continue w
4. cc Vu TP Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Light and Color Using Tones and Blending Reflected light defines the form of three dimensional objects A circle by itself could be a hole you can look through a flat disc or a solid sphere After shading is added the type of object immediately becomes obvious This sphere is standing on a flat surface It casts a shadow where light does not fall The object is reflecting light creating tones or shading Look at this hollow cylinder Look at the color wheel on the next page which is lit from one side PF 4 There are more variations of each color to see how reflected light Red yellow and blue are the Primary affects the inside and outside colors When mixed together in pairs surfaces and how the shadow they make orange green and purple is cast To see the shades which are the Secondary colors The more easily use white objects colors between these are what you get and only one light source The from mixing a Primary and its opposite brighter the light the higher Secondary color These are called the contrast will be between Tertiary colors dark and light tones shading Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Now use a sphere that is the same color all over such as an orange This time the different tones apply to a color If you have a white light source getting a lighter version of your color is easy just add a little white If you use b
5. farther away by drawing them smaller or closer by drawing them the same size Continuous Curve RITITI TTT N i l Filled Circle ee ecooe00 OG E Now add features to your sky perhaps some clouds the filled circle or free hand drawing tools are great for this the sun or some birds bii eo 002000 a Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Crayola Animation Studie image 1 847x595 206 Fa Bet Vee o Too anon Aam S84 m x 3 A Fe 25 9 r d burla TU TITRE TTT i 25 0 Tereer pant Contes aree fb P Y d f f Y P Remember to look in your Stamp Browser for images you can easily add to your background Stamps Saving an Image as a Background You can use any of the pictures you draw or pictures you have saved on your computer as a background this means that art tools such as the Erasing tool will not work on your image Select your picture using the selection tool and drawing a shape around the entire picture or press the CTRL gt A keys on your keyboard With your picture selected right click your mouse A dropdown menu will appear Go to Use as Background A pop out menu will appear with these options Center Fit Resize Selection Define Selection Load Selection Save Selection As Alt F2 Transparent Ctrl Rotate Skew Transform Ld Crayola9 An
6. mix Red and together you will get Orange Red and Blue make Purple Blue and make Green Look at the colors in the color wheel The colors Orange Purple and Green come between the colors that make them Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Some of these colors form families Purple Red and Orange for instance are related because they all contain Red On the other hand some colors are opposites such as Red and Green Look straight across the color wheel and see if you can find other opposite colors Opposite Colors are called Complementary Colors Some of the colors are light and some are dark P Y dh P A A P Y A Think of a good subject containing bright colors Here are a few suggestions a bed of flowers a bunch of bal loons kites flying against a colorful sky a mixture of all of these Use any drawing tool plus the Fill tool See if you can find pictures in the Stamp browser to help you or load the Colors rna file from the Activities folder In some of your pictures keep the related colors close to each other In others try putting an opposite color in with the related ones Try putting the dark ones together and adding a pale one to them Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE A background is an image that creates a setting that appears behind your main images It provides a scene for your images There are many different types of background that can be used They c
7. Emails Projects Web Rages amp More j Contents Published By Bes Core Learning www core learning com Introduction to Crayola Animation Studio Introductory Activities Activity 1 Take a Line for a Walk Introducing Draw and Fill Tools Activity 2 Exploring Color Basic and Complementary Colors Activity 3 Creating a Background Image Activity 4 Saving an Image as a Background Animation Activities Activity 1 Moving Image Activity 2 Moods Emotions and Feelings Activity 3 Simple Animation Activity 4 Email Signature Activity 5 Web Banner More Artwork Activities Activity 1 Using and Transforming Stamps Activity 2 Imaginary Animals Using Stamps and Patterns Activity 3 Human Figure Advanced Drawing and Coloring Features Activity 4 Light and Color Using Tones and Blending Activity 5 Landscape Light and Color in Nature Activity 6 Perspective Vanishing Points and Horizon Lines Table of Keyboard Shortcuts 00 BN 9 10 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 2 29 33 Images needed for the activities in this Guide can be found by opening the My Paintings gt Activities folder in Crayola Animation Studio 2010 Core Learning Inc and Logotron Limited 2010 Crayola Crayola Chevron Design Serpentine Oval Smile Design are trademarks of Crayola used under license Introduction to Crayola Animation Studio The Crayola Animation Studio Program is an easy to use parents in learni
8. age such as a New button you only need eee Frame 1 to have 2 frames one with the text image and one with MS just your background image When you hit play forward they LATE ISSN will appear to flash on and off the screen 100 100 3 Rolling banners create frame items with the same rolling banner background but change all the images and text on each M frame Adjust the time delay to ensure that each message is r visible long enough to read short messages should have a delay between 800 and 1000 longer ones over 1000 800 800 800 a ee S s Field Trip ies ME d Car Wash 75 BAKE SALE 755 Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Using and Transforming Stamps To resize click and drag any of the corners or sides Dragging Crayola Animation Studio Stamp Browser for use on the corners will scale your image proportionately evenly in your drawings New images can be drawn and in all directions Dragging the sides will distort your stamp saved in the Stamp folder for easy access stretch or shrink it in the direction you are dragging Stamps are a collection of images found in the Open the Stamp Browser Choose the Dinosaurs category Select a dinosaur stamp You can apply stamps to your picture in two ways First you can select the stamp then click on the page to stamp it on your picture This is the quickest way to add stamps However you can also click and
9. ames Color in his head hands and feet E A A amp A A Try doing your own drawings of a simple movement If you want to erase something use the Erasing tool The shortcut to this is to draw with the right hand mouse button instead of the left Note that if you draw with white paint and use the left hand button you will not be able to see the Onion Skin drawing of the previous frame Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Moods Emotions and Feelings You are going to show in an animation how emotion can change a face as circumstances change Before you start you need to get in your mind a little story which you are going to depict It could be near the end of a race and your favorite athlete is half a pace behind the leader Can they make up the distance before the finish line You can finish the story yourself but the tension and final outcome are only expressed by the agonies or joy on the face of the spectator The normal planning tool for animations and films is the storyboard This is a grid into which a mixture of words and sketches go to give a rough idea of what the piece will contain and where the major changes in the story occur It would be a good idea to think about the faces you want to express and do sketches of what happens to the eyes mouth eye brows and color In the Activity Folder there is a template called Storyboard rna to help you plan your a
10. arent white to lighten the basic color way to do this is to use the Fill tool Make sure Make sure that Anti aliasing is each shape is Wal on i a closed polygon or the i color will leak into the Surrounding areas q Zoom il Anti aliasing Put the Transparency slider near the right end of the palette and do several strokes on top of each other until the right tone is obtained To make the dark tone choose the opposite complementary color very transparent and go over the base color Use the Zoom tool to find where the holes are Transparency Slider At this stage things often look quite good and you can stop there if you wish Draw a seated figure from the side so that you can see how the legs and arms are arranged Then try a seated figure from the front All the measurements will the same as the standing one except for the thighs Because these now make a horizontal shape they will appear much shorter than in the standing model This effect is called foreshortening and happens wherever you are looking across a horizontal form Areas of Foreshortening eeeereecereec 6 6 0 O0 9 6 9 0 9 GO O 9 0 GO 6 0 O 0 6 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 9 0 O0 0 O0 0 0 0 6 0 GO 9 0 o o 6 o o o o o o de o o o 9 o o o e o o e o o e 6 9 06 0 6 6 6 9 06 06 9 9 0 6 09 O0 9 9 O0 9 eee 0 0 6 0 06 6 6 0 0 9 06 O 6 6 06 0 6 6 6 06 6 0 9 9 6 6 6 6 0 9 6 6 9 9 6 9 s s ecco
11. ayola Animation Studio gt Stamps You can choose a folder to add Animation Studio works them to create a new stamps folder category or save in 2 Activity Guide is the document you are currently reading the open folder unlabelled folder at the top of the drop It contains activities to help learn animation creation down list in the Browser Save to the Stamps folder and not techniques a named sub folder Now when you open your Stamp Browser 3 User Manual contains a complete discussion of features in the program your stamp images will be accessible of the program Many opportunities for creative expression are explained It will assist users teachers tutors and Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Take a Line for a Walk Introducing Draw and Fill Tools ys Fill Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE You may be able to draw well with a pencil or crayon but you may find it S difficult using a mouse Even if you have a graphics pad it is not easy to start with Although the drawing tool is like holding a pencil the picture appears on the screen not on the surface on which you are pressing The following exercise will help you to practice Choose the Crayola Marker and a color and take a line for a walk as Paul Klee a famous Swiss painter from a hundred years ago used to say Keep to straight lines perhaps in line with the edges of the surface using the Continuous Curve too
12. cal lines 4v Where this cuts the receding lines draw the horizontal line ZA LX for the far edge of the box Center of Vision Center of Vision Horizon or Eye Level Y VP Base line Plan view Straight lines which are parallel to each other in reality appear to meet at a point in a perspective view Lines which are parallel to the ground have a Vanishing Point on the Horizon or Eye Level Because of this lines lower than your eyes will go up towards the Horizon and lines above your eyes will go down as they go further away from you Plan view To draw a box when you are looking at a corner instead of a face draw a plan view and measure the angles the sides make with the Base Line Plot these angles onto the Eye Level from the Base Line Start with the vertical edge of the box nearest to you and draw in the perspective lines as above In the Activities Folder you will find the file Space City rna Try to complete this picture of a city in the future using the two points of perspective Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Table of Keyboard Shortcuts Here are standard shortcuts you can use on your keyboard with the Crayola Animation Studio program You can customize the keyboard shortcuts Some options have more than one shortcut combination Button in a toolbar Button in a toolbar Shortcut Menu option or tool window Shortcut Menu option or tool window Paint gt Selection gt Transform gt C
13. ch tree are obvious Even bushes are not all the same although they may seem to be until you look closely Buildings are nearly always made with simple geometric forms Most are box shapes and prisms Linear perspective influences how they are depicted Things seem to get smaller as they get further away from you Water nearly always appears as a reflection like a mirror if it is still but broken up if it is moving In the photograph the water surface is moving just enough to blur the reflection of the trees and bridge Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE The most important aspect of depicting landscapes is how to show the three dimensional space The combination of distance and light affects the appearance of the tones and colors as they get farther away from the viewer Objects in the distance look paler and slightly bluer The contrast between the lightest and darkest tones also is less One way 2 to achieve this effect in art is to make the colors rather more vivid than they appear and then to stroke over them with very transparent white or blue Tempera Paint Use the Tempera Paint Brush for this exercise At the bottom of the Color Chooser is a transparency slider Move the arrow on it to the right end with your cursor Any color you paint with will now be transparent Look up into a clear blue sky Can you see the difference between the color overhead and that at the hori
14. drag a stamp onto the screen This will create a selected stamp which will allow your to resize rotate Next we will rotate the image Double click on the image to and skew it have the selection handles turn into circles or right click and choose rotate Drag one of the corners in the direction you want to turn your image sx a an Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE To skew your image double click the image again to have the corners turn into triangles or right click and choose skew Drag one of the handles to skew your image Skewing an image turns it in a way that can show the appearance of movement You can further adjust the stamp by right clicking on the it You can choose to transform your image by preset values expand shrink flip horizontal flip vertical or rotate 90 180 or 270 Right clicking also let s you restore your image to the original settings if you don t like the way it appears Define Selection i Load Selection Save Selection As Alt F2 Transparent Ctrl Restore to Original w Resize Rotate Skew UT ek Flip Horizontally lip Verticall Use as Background rage se ay Stretch to 50 Expand to 200 Rotate by 90 Rotate by 180 Rotate by 270 Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Imaginary Animals Using Stamps and Patterns If you look at pictures of dinosaurs in a book you are seeing them as someone else has imagined t
15. e gif file format under the Save As drop down menu Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Email Signature Emails are a popular way of communicating Like handwritten letters and notes emails close with a signature You can use Crayola Animation Studio to create a moving signature or to add a moving graphic to enhance a typed signature To create a signature that appears like you are writing It chose an art tool and a color On the first frame item write part of the first letter of your name Select the drawing using the selection tool and copy it Now insert a new Frame item and paste the drawing The pasted drawing will appear in the exact same position as it was copied from Ft i e T 4 I m Ex AD 5 a i Zr A3 E Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Add the rest of the letter and repeat the steps select copy add new frame item paste and draw Repeat the steps as many times as you need to finish spelling you name When completed click on the play forward button and watch as your name writes itself on the screen m h M Li j d VUTVEUUUVEVNUN 2 a P a a le oI P oe re or a f 7 D eet ni F Jane The animation will automatically loop start over at the beginning and repeat all movements continuously To stop it from looping Choose the Animation Frame option on the
16. ead measurements from The proportions of the human body are the top of the head down See if you can find out how usually worked out in terms of the height of wide the shoulders waist and hips appear to be in the head actually the face from the chin to head measurements Here is a tip if you stand upright the hairline and press your wrists to the sides of your legs you will find they coincide with the joint at the top of your leg A Roughly an adult male will be 7 5 heads high viewfinder grid might be a useful tool for helping to see the proportions An adult woman will be 7 heads high PR SE When you have decided what the measurements are turn off the Anti aliasing and sketch in the limbs like a stick person using the Continuous Curve tool Draw the general shape of the person D A young child about 6 years of age will be about 5 heads high Anti aliasing Choose a different color to fill out the body on top of 0 the stick person Red is shown here Continuous Curve To erase the stick person choose the Erasing tool S You may need to Zoom in to do this Erasing Is this skeleton male or female An adult or child Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE To color your figure choose a mid If you want to add tones to the drawing you can use tone for each color The easiest transp
17. eb banner adding elements until completed Adjust the time delays to the appropriate speed for each frame item to appear Save as The following is a list of standard web banner sizes measured a gif in pixels available in Crayola Animation Studio Full Banner 468x960 Leaderboard 28x90 1 Scrolling text Choose the text tool Type your full Skyscraper 160 x 600 message and position it off the paper to the left right top or bottom Add a new frame click the text tool again it will remember what was last typed and position the text showing slightly more of the message Continue adding frames and the same text until the whole thing is showing or until it has left the image area Here are a few techniques that you could use Paper Properties Choose View gt Paper Properties to select a banner size from the drop down menu Large Icon Small gj Letter Landscape Letter Portrait Before you start plan out what the banner will look like Images and messaging and what it will do have text move across screen have text or images flash have multiple messages rotate through etc Always start by filling the background with a color or choosing a Stamp image to use Cre ayola An nim imatic ns tudic dio Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE 2 Flashing text images copy and paste the text images that you want to flash onto every other frame if you are doing a iage i simple flashing im
18. he sphinx or the griffin The sphinx was a mixture of a woman s head and a lion s body with wings added A griffin also had the body of a lion but the head of an eagle These mythical creatures were mixtures of two or more different animals or humans and animals A A 2 Paint your own animal invention Look at different animal and human features in pictures or in real life Put some of them together to make your new creature Perhaps you can find things to use in the Stamp browser See the Dinosaurs and Line Art Animals stamps or load the Mythical rna files from the Activities folder Stamps Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Heads tails hair feathers noses and teeth come in a great number of varieties The colors and patterns on fur and hide can be even more varied some are brightly colored some dull some have patterns some have stripes some have long hair some have short and some have scales Human Figure Advanced Drawing and Coloring Features When people think of skeletons they nearly Start by trying to draw a standing figure that you are always think of dead ones but most of the S looking at from the front Estimate or measure how skeletons we know are alive inside us They many heads tall your subject is Measure on your model give us our bodies their basic shape where body parts such as the waist hips knees elbows and ankles come in terms of h
19. hem You can work out the size and shape of the animals by studying the bones but you have to imagine the other details For instance ears do not have many bones in them so their shapes have to be imagined or left out Of course you do not know what color the ears were Most animals today share many features with each other and Look at someone s eye or your own in the dinosaurs They have eyes a a mirror It has a white part a colored JURO PERO mouth a nose legs and a head part called the iris and a small black 1 j A but not tails or crests on the tops circle called the pupil in the middle CES Kee ar of their heads The surface of the eye is always moist so there is nearly always a little light reflection in it which is called a highlight Different animals have different shaped eyes and the shapes inside them can be quite different too In the same way you could look at the feet on your cat or dog They have the same number of toes that people do but their feet are a very different shape Animals such as sheep cattle and horses have hooves Large animals such as elephants and rhinos seem to have toenails but no toes Birds too have several different sorts of feet Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Which animals have these patterns Long ago imaginary animals appeared quite often in fairy tales Have you ever heard of a dragon or a unicorn They weren t real animals nor were t
20. imation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE and Tile Choose Resize to have your background fill the page Now your image is the background Even if you clear the page using the Clear picture feature your image will remain the background You can now complete your picture by adding other elements drawing objects adding stamp images or adding text to it You can also save your image as a background by saving it as a Stamp File gt Save As My Computer gt Local Disk C gt Program Files gt Crayola Animation Studio gt Stamps gt Backgrounds gt your ook in gt Backgrounds fig Desktop G My Documents 4 My Computer z Local Disk C Program Files C Crayola Animation Studio quete rane rhe rana nemm me n n 1 B Gu Local Disk E 3 FreeAgent Drive F t3 Mero Scout 3 Shared Documents ity My Documents a My Network Places 5 Crayola Animation Studio 3 Crayola Art Start O New Builds 3 filename rna This will store your background for later use When you use the stamp you will have to right click the mouse again to have the Use as Background options appear Moving Image When you go to the movies what appears to be a moving picture is a series of still pictures shown in quick succession In order to make a cartoon all you have to do is make a sequence of drawings each with a little change from the previous one Originally all cartoons were made from thousands of drawi
21. l Crayola Marker U Continuous Curve Fill in some of the shapes with colors These could be one light color and one dark one or perhaps they could be colors that are all light or all dark You could put them in shapes that do not touch each other or shapes that only touch at the corners If you have left a background that surrounds these shapes try filling that in with a light or dark color to see what effect it has on the main part of the picture Fill When you are happy with the mouse or graphics pad drawing you have done see if it suggests anything you can recognize When you can see something in the picture make this your new subject and complete the picture as you wish using other colors and tools to draw in any other details you need You could find things in the Stamp browser to add to it too Cu i a PiN 24 XU Stamps If you want to erase something right click the mouse Perhaps you could draw a line for your eZ friend to finish or your friend could draw you a line to turn into a picture coninuous cune Alternatively load the Lines rna files from the Activities folder Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Have you ever looked closely at the colors in a rainbow Look at the rainbow and at the color wheel Is your favorite color there The basic colors in the circle are Red Blue and If you
22. lack your color will soon be overwhelmed by it and the picture will look muddy To add tones to any colored object try mixing in some of the opposite color a little at a time It will darken the object color so it will appear less vibrant where the light does not reach You can also select your color from the Color Chooser at the top of the screen and use the slider below it to make colors transparent Moving to the right makes them paler Moving to the left makes them darker This gives more control over the color s tone Experiment with this technique Choose a kind of paint and select the base color of your object Dab it into the opposite complementary color on the mixing palette and choose the intensity you want When you paint with it it will be transparent Go over an area several times to get a darker color f A A A A A N A Load the file Mixer rna from the Activities Folder We started with red and darkened it bit by bit with green until we got brown Pick a color yourself and use the clear blocks to experiment with creating your own blends ee o 000 Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Landscape in Art is how we show outdoor scenery The art may include natural objects such as plants trees and water human made elements such as buildings fields and roads or the space around them Each species of plant has its own shape color and texture The differences between an oak tree and a bir
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24. le of the diagonal is 45 The diagonals are parallel to each other so will have the same Vanishing Point To find this plot an angle of 45 from the Base Line and Center of Vision to the Horizon Line This cuts three of the receding lines showing where the corners will be Draw horizontal lines through these points and you will see the first three rows of the grid appear in perspective Now draw from the left of the farthest row to the 45 Vanishing Point and you will cut the receding lines in several more places from which you can draw more rows in Center of Vision vp Horizon or Eye Level 45 VP Center of Vision Field of View 90 VP Horizon or Eye Level If you look at the first few rows of tiles they appear distorted This is because the Base Line represents the feet of the viewer and is an area which you cannot see if you are looking at the horizon It is generally taken that if you draw an angle of 15 from the Center of Vision on the Base Line to the Horizon Line and then draw a circle centered on the 90 Vanishing Point what is within the circle is what lies within the vision of the viewer Base line Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE To draw a box on one of the squares draw a square from the front corners and draw in the receding lines to the Center of Vision Now draw a diagonal perspective line to the 45 90 VP Horizon or Eye Level 450 VP Vanishing Point from the top of one of the verti
25. ng how to use the program tools and digital art program with tools for creating animations for functions emails web pages and projects You can create original images add text or import images into the program The activities use many images that have been included with the program When the Activity Guide refers to the Activities The features of Crayola Animation Studio include folder you can locate this by choosing File gt Open gt My five realistic art tools for drawing and painting Paintings gt Activities The program automatically opens in e animation tools the My Paintings folder when you choose File gt Open so you e images in the Stamps browser to use for animations should just have to locate the Activities folder in there The e motifs and textures to add artistic effects to animations Activity Guide also refers to images in the Stamps folder You e text functions can access the images from the Stamp Browser located on the right side of the interface if not displayed click Learn About Crayola Animation Studio Features the 2 on the toolbar to show the sub folder names There are three documents found in the Resources Menu to help the you become acquainted with the program features If you wish to add an image to the Stamp Browser you have and tools They include are to save your images in the program Stamps Folder You can do this by choosing Save As C Program Files gt Crayola 1 Quick Start Tour is a self running demo on how Cr
26. ngs These were then put together by filming them with a cine camera Computers help us to do this much more quickly now using software like Crayola Animation Studio Start a new page and use Paper Properties IN to set the screen to 128 x 128 pixels Choose the Organizer from the View Menu to open the eeens Organizer Window at the bottom of the screen Your first frame will be visible to the left Uf oanined Image 1 Frame 1 100 Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE The strip of pictures which appears contains the next frame eight drawings of a little man and five of a little dog Drag the top one of the dog into your page Click on the Onion Skin icon and the contents Position it in the middle and make sure that its nose and tail do not go outside the frame Lid of the first frame will appear in pale gray in the new frame Drag the next dog into the new frame Go to the Stamp Browser and choose Animation gt Now click on the New Frame After button to get New Frame After Stamps Onion skin and using the Onion Skin line up the backbones Get another frame and repeat this pattern until all five drawings have been inserted Click on the Play Forward button to see your dog running along Play Forward Start a new file File gt New or Ctrl N and repeat the exercise with the little man s eight fr
27. nimation Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE When you have decided what you are going to do draw the main versions of the face as set out in your storyboard Work out how many frames will be needed between each and add that number of frames the New Frame After button as many times as you gt For instance select the first frame and click on want new frames New Frame After Turn on the Onion Skin so you can see the shadow of the previous frame to help you draw Onion Skin ET Stamps m Fill Changing Face Frame 1 Look in the Stamp browser and load the list called Cartoon Elements In it you will find various facial features which you may be able to use Drag one into your frame and resize it as necessary You can also use the Rotate and Skew tools while it is in Selection mode But the easiest way to see what facial expressions are like is to pull a face in a mirror You can color the face For instance you could make it turn red as it comes to anger or fury Choose a mid red from the palette and move the transparency slider about two thirds of the way to the right Color in all the faces in this sequence with the Fill tool Click once in the first face twice in the second three times in the third and so on till you have done all of them Crayola9 Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Resize ee ae Ur
28. ould be beaches shopping centers parking lots classrooms kitchens deserts rainforests and much more Think about different backgrounds you have seen in different pictures What type of backgrounds could you use as a starting point for your picture Think of the type of image you Crayola Animation Studio ACT I V are trying to create Is it indoors or outdoors Day or night Real or imaginary A room a place or a location Once you have chosen a theme for your image you can start to build a background Think of a background in layers Decide what features will be needed on the entire drawing and then build on them Start by drawing the main elements of your background such as the sky and grass You can use the filled rectangle or square Filled Rectangle or Sqaure Crayela lnimatice Studie image 1 8435595 2008 7 u gt E pen i a a gt E at image i e eee o a 6 Q FA J 3 Ga ed Next add some trees or a road Complete your drawing however you wish adding elements that you do not want to have changed such as flowers cars birds etc Once you have your basic background you can start adding the other elements Use a variety of shape tools and art tools to experiment If you want something to appear in the distance such as mountains draw them next Place them on the horizon the line where the sky and grass meet You can make them appear
29. rspective lines are all parallel to the ground Center of Vision Eye Level Try finishing the drawing called Chessboard rna in the Activities folder Using the Eye Level and Vanishing Points complete the perspective view of the chessboard Eight Squares x Eight Squares and use the Line and Fill tools The best way to find out about perspective is to look closely Center of Vision at the world around you A little technical knowledge about it will help you to see things a little more accurately VP Our picture of the station looks straight down the lines with the Vanishing Point VP right in the middle Look at the diagram on the right to see how you can put Vanishing Points elsewhere on the Horizon Line to make for example a road change direction Center of Vision Look at the Plan View or bird s eye view of the same x vp 90 VP Boiremorbvehoyd 7500p road Note the angle where it changes direction Now look at the Perspective View The angles from the plan are plotted from the point where the Center of Vision and the Base Line meet The Vanishing Points occur where the angle Z lines cut the Horizon Line All WU lines parallel to those angles on the plan will go to the same PASEA uu Plan View Perspective View Vanishing Point Crayola9 Animation Studio ACT IV I The row of squares below the Base Line is a Plan View of part of a grid pattern The ang
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31. zon N N t f A P Y P Load the Landscape rna file from the Activities folder Use the transparency slider to modify the green and blue Draw in your own landscape Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE Perspective Vanishing Points and Horizon Lines As things get further away from you they appear to become smaller and less clear The system which artists use to help them understand and control this in their pictures is called Perspective Linear Perspective developed during the Renaissance deals with lines Aerial Perspective deals with tones and colors Look at this picture of a railway station You are looking straight down the tracks The width between the rails seems to get smaller as they go into the distance The lines of the rails and the platform seem to converge go toward each other as they recede Some of the lines seem to go to a point in the distance These lines are actually parallel to each other the railway lines cable gantries edges of the platforms and top and bottom of the fences Crayola Animation Studio ACTIVITY GUIDE The point where the lines appear to meet is called the Vanishing Point The direction in which you are looking is the Center of Vision Notice that the horizontal line on which the lines seem to meet is also the Horizon the line where the earth and sky appear to meet and is on the eye level of the figure in the picture This is because our pe
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