Creativity: Update 2

During the process of developing my animated gif I decided to use a website called Unsplash for my reference photography images. I personally felt this would add a unique and professional look to what I was hoping to animate. For this purpose of making animated gif I decided to use a software called Photomirage. I have been wanting to experiment with this software for some time but have never gotten the opportunity to really explore its unique features. Previously I would have always used Adobe Creative Cloud for enhancing and developing my project ideas. However, I wanted to learn something new, so I decided to use this software instead as I wanted to challenge myself.

The software was very easy to use and had a lot of unique features like Adobe products. One of the things that I found a little bit unusual was the way it allows the user to simply drag and drop effects onto your image. This was interesting as you didn't have to use a layering system to setup your effects. Compared to other programs where you would need to set up a couple of different layers prior to you even animating your image. This was great as it cut down an awful lot of the frustration you would usually go through when implementing these types of photo manipulation effects. At the bottom of this page there is an example of some of the things I went through when animating my images.

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Creativity: Update 1

In today's class of Introduction to Digital Media we were given our first project which we must complete over the coming weeks. We had to create an animated GIF and present it in a PowerPoint presentation as part of a group project. At first, I was horrified at the idea of doing a presentation as I am not great when it comes to speaking in public, as I can sometimes get extremely nervous. When it came to be finding the best people to work with, I was lucky as they were individuals that I've already become good friends with. Ron and Cian are very nice people and I know I can rely on them to get this project done the right way. Since we decided to go with an animated GIF for a project, I decided to take it upon myself to create a group page using WhatsApp. I felt this would be a great way of communicating since this is something, we have been using to keep in touch with others in our creative development class. This way we would be able to keep up to date with any ideas tha...

Introduction CDM

Hi all, my name is Christopher Mc Keon I am a third level student studying a 4-year course in Creative Digital Media in TU Dublin Blanchardstown. I have always had an interest in creative digital media, and this is my first time doing a college-level course. I have worked as a photographer assistant as well as a painter/decorator over the years. Prior to starting this college course, I have been studying with the VTOS centre in Navan developing my computer skills in software development.

Creativity: Update 3

The Project is nearly over and I'm looking forward to putting the final touches on this presentation. I can't wait to see all the interesting and unique ideas everyone has come up with over the last couple of weeks. It has been an interesting project and I'm quite happy to say we as a group did a great job. We had no problem coming together and working hard to produce something amazing. I have learnt a lot from researching the history of GIf's and there is quite a lot that I didn't know. It's amazing at how something so small can grow into something so big over the course of a couple of years. On the day of the presentation everybody was a little bit nervous about showing their own presentation in front of the group. We were lucky in the sense that we had a small group of people to show our work. I was so nervous that I forgot my classmates name when I was passing over to his section the read from the PowerPoint Presentation. I felt really embarrassed and di...

Intro CDM

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