Photoshop Animation 

Kayla Siegfried 

TECHNICAL: Wile making this animation I got to refresh my skills on adobe photoshop cc. It was really interesting learning how to make an object have the appearance of it moving as well as how to changes things like colour to my preferences. 

IDEA: To start this project I had no idea what to make my ball bounce off. So eventually I looked up “things” and found a checker board and used that as a reference and idea and then just spun off that. 

INFLUENCES: My influences for this project was just literally looking a picture of a checker board and working from there. I don’t look towards any artists for inspiration because I'm not really a big art student so I don’t really know many artists. 

COMPOSITION: I found making this animation very challenging so when it comes to compositing there may not be a lot of that. I struggled very hard using photoshop to make an animation even though i know how to use photoshop already. Although I struggled with this I found I kept really good aspects of animation like the squash and stretch technique given that my object is a checker. 

MOTIVATION: My motivation for this project was probably honestly to find something that a ball could bounce off and just get the project done and over with as i was already behind before I started. 

CRITICAL  ASSESSMENT: If I could go back and fix this project I would have fixed some of my tracing on the checker board because from frame1-2 you can see it shift. I also might have found something easier to do as my choice as i can see now is quite challenging. Over all I am fairly happy with the end result of this project.