Steven Spielberg I am not...


As one of our last projects in my Computer Illustration class we had to make an animation. From scratch. Without Flash. You know, making a moving animation the old style way, frame by frame, like what we used to do with the old flipbooks. Except we were making frames on the computer and a GIF Builder program puts them together for you. It was still a lot of work making each individual frame. I only had 2 days to put this together, so it's a bit rough. I would have liked to have moving legs etc. to make it look like the people are walking but just didn't have time for it. The main point of the project was to have objects move across the screen, using between 50-100 frames. Mine took about 69 frames to create.

Also, another instruction in the project was to choose an obscure November "holiday," one other than Thanksgiving. There's some weird so-called holidays in Nov such as "Sandwich Day" and "Have a Bad Day Day". I chose "World Hello Day" for my animation.




Most students were struggling with trying to draw people on the computer, and wound up using stick figures. Screw that... I used South Park as an inspiration and found photos of celebrities instead. Nobody seems to mind mocking them. So, we have PeeWee, Tom Cruise (notice the snob doesn't say hello back), Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Soprano's Garafino, and Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers from MASH. Hey it's the best I could come up with on short notice.