On Thursday I started scanning in all the slides I drew for the animation. I drew them on some blank flash cards using the lightbox my friend’s mum made. The card could make a flipbook and actually works in some areas but as I drew over 70+ frames, it caused a problem trying to hold the cards together… I’m thinking of buying a large clip to hold the cards together and see if it helps flipping the cards and submitting it along with the rest of the DVD film.The scanning process took a whole hour to do on a Epsom scanner connected to an Apple Mac Pc. Took a while for me to understand the layout of Macs and where my H Drive was. Hehe.
I’m still debating whether to purchase an Apple Mac Laptop or a PC Laptop with Windows 7. I really like Windows 7 when I was still using the beta version. The navigation through folders was much easier and the rollover feature on the content of each item on the toolbar was a nice touch. It made multi-tasking much easier and efficient! Would anyone be able to give me some pointers?
Right back to the topic. Below are some images I took whilst scanning the cards in. Look how organised I was! I placed the scanned images on the left, the scene that needed to be scanned in the middle and the the rest of the cards on the right. I also kept note of the files in my mini notepad I bought to write my ideas and notes in; seeing I’m a forgetful person this method helps out the most. I took the piles of card at different intervals (mostly after scanning after a whole scene) so I might make it into a mini animation and include it into the DVD at the end.

All I’m currently doing is altering the images in Photoshop to define the lines and give the pencil mark more depth so it stands out on screen. I’m also erasing dark areas in the images where I’ve smudged the pencil. (The rubber wouldn’t get rid of it…) Next I would have to resize all the images to fit on a 4:6 Pal television screen and animate the frames in Adobe Premier. So this project should finally be able to come together and the animation will be running smoothly soon!! I just need to write the narrative for it so my friend Tash can do the voice over. Should be lots of fun!

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