Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hi everyone! This week in GT we are focusing on both Polar and Spherical images. These type of images are a bunch of pictures all combined together to make a spherical outlook, its sorta like a tiny world. Composite images are a few or more images combined together, the reason why people create these composite images are to give the picture a very unique and interesting touch to it, instead of a normal and bland picture. Composite photos are also made to go beyond and push the normal limitations of a camera. Some composite images are photo montages or polar and spherical panoramas.

The difference between a polar and a spherical panorama is that a polar pano, is sort of a tiny world. The polar has a circle in the middle, following with either black or white in the background. With a 180 image rotation, just to give it a more worldly effect. For a spherical panorama, it looks more like a sphere. Plus, a spherical panorama does not have the 180 image rotation as the polar panorama will have. The Spherical Panorama looks more like a drop of water instead of a world. However, both Polar and Spherical Panos have a horizon line in them, this is so it is easier and a bit more nicer when it is turned into a sphere or a world.

I believe that the smudge and clone tool makes my tiny worlds convincing because it is able to blur and color over the problems and the more sketchy parts of my panoramas, and replace them with something else in the photo. Such as clouds,the sky, even the ground. Plus, I also added a little rotation to my panoramas, it is normal that there is a line straight down through a panorama. The rotation helps hide the line better, since it is usually found straight through the middle. The line is a empty area in the panorama, since it ends with a different photo, not the photo it started with. (Its not a full circle)

Character Development

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fun Easter! This week in GT we are creating an animation of ourselves. I believe that I am a clumsy procrastinator, I constantly push all my work back to the last hour or so. I once spilled my chili all over my homework assignment. My imperfection is that I always will hold my breath every time I breath, no matter if I am in the water or out in the air, it lasts for around 3 - 10 seconds, then
I breath again and repeat my odd habit.

The character traits that I plan to exaggerate is my anxiety. I always get really nervous on something minor and major alike. Such as presenting in front of my classmates or going on a off-island trip. I plan to show this in my animation by showing myself freak out often, as well doing the very distracting habits, such as consistently. saying "um" or show my hands fiddle.

The step by step process of making a animated .GIF, in my opinion is very difficult. You start out by taking a picture of your subject, (in which case is myself) then you would cut it out using Photoshop's quick selection tool. After that, you will take the cut out picture of yourself and use Photoshop's Puppet Warp, placing "pins" on all your limbs so you can move your character with each frame. I sorta do not enjoy this process, just because of how one little mistake can ruin the final product, Such as not having your arms spread apart enough when taking your picture, even doing a poor cut on Photoshop.