We got into groups to start our project, which was to create a animated e-book for young children. I learnt new skills in photoshop, which was how to make an image more cartoon like and professional; making it more appealing to the target audience in the book company. This was also the new skills which I learnt on how to make an image more cartoon like. I need to improve more on this skill as I had a lot of difficulties on the start as I didn't understand the help-video very well as it was a bit conducing, as I got more help with Hannah, I found it more easier. I found problems on this new skills but I asked for help to overcome this issue. Next week, I will future these skills as I want to make these skills more professional.

From Cameron.

When I made the visual image of the cartoon mole, I found it really, really difficult to draw the image of the mole in the professional way which media designers / cartoon drawers for the media idustey draw their designs / images. May way is free hand drawing form the image informs of me. I think this new method will be something for me to improve on as it requires a lot of skill and it needs a lot of practise robe good at it. The way you do it is by doing it in steps. First, you need to draw a three by three grid with a 5cm width and height between them. Second, you get some teasing paper and sellotape it over the computer screen and you draw circles in proportion of the head, body, legs, arms, feet and hands. Thirdly, you draw the same gird on a piece of white paper and draw the circles (as same as the template). Fourthly, you draw the body line and then you add all of the features later on (with shadow and shading).

I overcome this by asking Hannah on how to do it, she showed me on the PowerPoint and I then gave it a go. The first time I tried it today I messed up, so I tried again. The second time, I succeeded. I managed to get an image of a mole which came out really well. I will practise on this technique so I can get a better feel on how this drawing technique works and I will sue this method of cartoon drawing throughout his project.

Today, I learnt about the new cartoon drawing technique which Hannah taught me today. I will use this in the furred of this project as this is a better was of drawing the image rather than Turing a normal image into a cartoon version in Photoshop.

The problem that I faced as that I had issues on transferring the fur onto the moles body as THE MAGIC WAND tool wasn't secreting the right part. I then found out that I was not on the right layer, which helped me understand that you need to select the right layer before you proceed to the next part of your image conversion. The final outcome of the cartoon image is very professional. I used all of the new skills tag I have learnt in that lesson and also skills which I knew before form the Advertising unit. This is a true example of professionalism.

The skills that I have learnt from Thursday's lesson I used on that lesson, along with some other skill. I will use this for future lessons to make my other characters and also to make the background for me and Alex's e-book.

Through my sketches, I found no problems on drawing the characters as I used the mole that I created on Photoshop as a template foe me to make the size and width of Murray; I also done this for Sammy the Squirrel, Penny the Penguin and Richard the Rabbit. Alex found no problems on In-design so our tasks were very straight-forward. (Images below).

Both of our work which we completed in the lesson were very professional as we found no problems. Alex isn't used to Final Cut, as he says that In-design; which he knows a lot about, will be a quicker way for him to create the animation; I agreed. I was on a separate computer, finishing off the reaming character templates for our e-book. I then started to sketch the different views of each character, by following the storyboard, I found it easier to get a better and professional understanding on what views I needed to design for our character creation.

The final outcome of Alex's work was very impressive as well as professional, I was pleased as he made the opening as the same way as I imagined it (in my head). The sketches that I created were also very impressive as well as professional. As I'm a very confident drawer I was confident that the sketches would come out clearly and professional. I will now use these in Photoshop to make all of the views of the characters for the e-book, all the views will be used for our e-book.

The skills that I have learnt is that on how to make a textures background on a character correctly and also on how to make a character move (I didn't do the teaching part by Dave, as it was optional and also, Alex is doing all of the animating; but I will listen to Dave's audio at another time). I will apply all of my skills for next lesson as I will complete all of the character views and Alex will use he's skills more on In-design.