We have very little time to make some adjustments to our After Effects animation of our Monster and get all our vector artwork uploaded and documented on our digital portfolios. Having an animated GIF on your Vector Art page is a great way to show off your work - the ones below are short, repeating loops that were resized to around 512 pixels wide. Ideally GIFs are between 1-2 megabytes because the web page would load VERY slowly otherwise and maybe not at all on a slow connection or a phone. Texted GIFs only work well because the files use very little data! (Click the link underneath the animations for a second page with the next 12 larger files). Note how slow it loads the GIFs, even if you are on super-fast broadband here at school.

These should be on your Vector Art page:

• Sample Graphic

• Any Shape Sampler experiments

• Emojis

• ELAR Monster (original JPG, Illustrator PNG, After Effects GIF  & MP4)

Some other designs you may have created:

• Recolor Artwork practice

• Rainbow Tutorial

• 3D Inflated Versions

• Anything else!

We added our My Favorite Things video to our Portfolios in the last Unit - now we have a short MP4 to put on our Vector Art page. It's pretty straightforward but VERY important to use the right file. Locate and view the video you are going to use before you take the following steps:

1.   Open Google Drive and go to your "PORTFOLIO FILES - DO NOT DELETE" folder.

2.   Use the Add --> File option and navigate to the folder where your video is located.

3.   On your Vector Art page, use Insert --> Drive --> PORTFOLIO FILES... and select your video.

This is a high resolution 1920x1080 video, so you can make it as big on the page as you like. Do NOT make your GIF large - it's best viewed at its actual resolution.