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READING & WRITING:\u00a0Chapter 9: Animate!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ImageWell, this chapter opens up with perhaps the greats analogy ever to describe these overwhelming\u00a0processes: sometimes you think you\u2019ll be conducting the greatest symphony in the nicest concert hall, but actually find yourself in a dark basement filled to the brim with feral cats tasked with now, trimming all of their nails. Yeah, the process of making this animation was quite like this, but more on that in a later section.<\/p>\n

This was a great chapter that felt like it boiled down many of the directions and points that were present in the previous chapters and covered things like, directional movement, sorting your key poses, and hitting you sound marks accurately. While these things were helpful to keep in mind, I felt like the overall chapter was difficult in some ways to transfer over the creative assignment, because creating a UI animation isn\u2019t quite as dynamic as creating an animated story. So I tried to pull apart the takeaways that would be helpful in the creation of the animation, but I think that in the future, I might want to try creating an actual animated short (and I mean REALLY SHORT) in order to feel like all of the readings were applied to a creative process.<\/p>\n

Again, aside from that opening chapter that made a devastatingly accurate picture of my personal experience, I do appreciate that the rest of the chapter went back to this familiar, supportive tone that made me feel like I could actually do something like this in the future. And while the book has been great for that this semester, personally, I think I would have benefited from a text that looked at the technical aspects of creation as well.<\/p>\n

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RESEARCH TO INFORM:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. I love the motion of the moon around the plant. Who wouldn\u2019t like to watch that as their app refreshes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    2. \u00a0I\u2019m not even sure what this app is meant to track, but the transition between night and day is beautiful and soothing.<\/p>\n

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    3. This on\/off switch\u00a0features a great reverberation between right and left sides when the transition\u00a0takes place.<\/p>\n

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    4. This UI Design reminded me of the Apple website, which I believe to be one of the best, simplistic yet, visually stunning sites on the web.<\/p>\n

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    5. The motion that takes place in this face-recognition app is pretty awesome and I can\u2019t take my\u00a0eyes off of it. I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s a real thing, but if it is, I need to find it and download it cause it looks like it would be fun to play around with.<\/p>\n

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    6. With the winter we have had, the site of even virtual snowfall is depressing. But this design has a really smooth transition<\/p>\n

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    7. I chose this example because we follow a lot of Soccer, and the app that I currently use (Forza) could learn a thing or two about having a clean, friendly interface.<\/p>\n

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    8. Basically, I chose this one because the animation is just mesmerizing. The transitions between devices are seamless<\/p>\n

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    CREATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    So, here it is:<\/p>\n