This week was pretty intimidating!! When I saw that we would be doing five design assignments with at least one being four stars I was a little worried. But hey, I got it done, and I actually ended up doing a GIF assignment that was four stars too!
I actually had a lot of fun doing this week’s assignments. I really enjoyed the Are We There Yet design assignment and I had fun making my GIFs. If you had asked me last week if I could make a GIF, the answer would have been a resounding no. Now I can make GIFs, and add captions and further animations to them!
I also really enjoyed reading about Massimo Vignelli. I think it is really cool that he created his book and it is available for free. I think that really speaks to his passion about design; he seemed to want to share his knowledge with future designers and I think that is super admirable.
This week I learned a lot about design, like use of space, typography, color, proportions, etc. I also learned how to do specific things in Gimp, like edit out the background of a photo and edit one photo into another. I also learned how to make a GIF in Gimp using the frame by frame approach and animating it with the filters tab. What a week!
Assignments
Animated GIF Assignments
- Animals Doing Funny things (Two and a Half Stars)
- Monster Chiller Horror Theatre 3D GIF (Four Stars)
Design Assignments
- Are We There Yet? (Three Stars)
- Noir Valentines (Three Stars)
- Wedding Invitation (Three Stars)
- The Little Caption (Two Stars)
- Computer Books for Kids (Four Stars)
I felt the exact same when I saw the comment about having to do a GIF with at least four stars. It took me a rather long time to figure out but was not too bad in the end.