Comm Tech - The Blinking Eye Partner Assignment

About The Assignment:

Your task (with a partner) is to re-create the above animated eye GIF. To do this, you will need to modify the inside part of the eye image. See how every time the eye completes a "blink" cycle, you see different colours and/or patterns and/or images inside the eye itself.

It is up to you and your partner to decide what modifications to make to the inside of the eye.

You will use the same "Blinking_Eye_Practice.PSD" file from earlier. This time, you need to copy the four separate layers that make up the blinking cycle. You will have a total of 4 X 6 = 24 layers.

As a partnership, complete a set of 6 "blinking cycles." This means that each partner is responsible to design and complete 3 sets of eye blinks. Each "set" must look completely different (as shown in the finished example). Have fun, be creative. Practice your Photoshop skills.

We will loop the animated GIF to play endlessly. Follow the steps to turn your 24 layers into a new Frame Animation that we practiced last time.

Submit your finished .GIF to Google Classroom

The Steps to Follow:

1) Create a Storyboard to plan out ideas for each blinking set "design"

• Each student is responsible for making their own storyboard for his/her "3 sets"
• The combined order of which "blink set" plays in which order needs to be planned and recorded on the storyboard(s)
• submit storyboards to teacher for review & approval before beginning in Photoshop

2) Open "Blinking_Eye_Practice.PSD" in Photoshop. Create the separate "sets" of layers to be converted into your animation "frames." You and your partner are responsible to create your own 4X3 = 12 layers. These are the number of layers to create three blinking "sets."

• You can work on the same computer, taking turns and assisting each other - or-
• You can work on your separate layer "sets." Save your work. Then transfer the file and layers onto one students computer when ready to make as one whole animation.

3) Create the Frame Animation and Export as GIF

4) Submit the following to Google Classroom:

• Your storyboard/planning (digital copy or hardcopy to teacher in-class)
• Your Photoshop file/files (with the individual layers you worked on)
• Your final .GIF file
• Your rubrics (you are being marked individually and together) out fo 20 marks