Digital GIF And Illness

I'M SO UNWELL. I slept probably a total of 30 minutes last night which is why my face looks so swollen and I feel like death today BUT I came into uni to use the macs as I was determined to make my digital GIF. And I finished it! All with the assistance of lemsip and the La La Land soundtrack.




Here it is.. Isn't she a beauty?

Challenges I've faced today:

• I mean, getting out of bed was a feat in itself
• For some reason, I can make the image I want to animate on photoshop, and all the components the GIF needs etc, but EVERY TIME I get to the part where I have to make the eyes move or just do the tween thing my brain goes blank and I forget how to do it. But I think I've got it down now, I need to remember that you make two frames at the bottom, one for the start point and one for the end. Then you click on the second frame and make the move you want your animation to have, then tween the frames. God knows what I was doing before that...
• Getting the frames and their corresponding animations and layers all in the right order has proved so difficult, but in future I think I either just need to name my frames, or make sure they're all just in chronological order as both of these things have helped.

Things I'm happy with:

• I just looked at my first GIF I made the other day and WOW it was rubbish, this project has made me face my fear of computers a little bit and has made me see that even though I can be easily confused by technology, if something goes wrong on Photoshop, there is usually a reasonable explanation for it and it can be solved pretty quickly. 
• Layers aren't as confusing as I once thought, we used to be barely acquaintances but were pals now.
• I can use the features and effects a GIF can offer to create something that would be tricky to communicate through analogue processes. For example, in this GIF I wanted to show that in the last two frames, Ricardo pops his bubble and then begins chewing his gum again, but when the frames were all shown for the same amount of time, I felt like you were barely able to recognise that the bubble had popped and was getting smaller. So I changed the length of the first and last frames to 0.05 and this slowed them down a bit, putting the emphasis on these actions.