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Chips & Salsa
Jazzlyn Escobar, 8th Grade
Drakes Creek Middle School
Motion Graphics
I started this project by planning what I was going to animate with the salsa cup and chip. Next, I started picturing the simplest way to draw the chip and salsa cup. Then, I started to go through on how I will do this in my head and what materials I will need.
To start, I drew a triangle, added rectangles for arms & legs, drew shoes & hands at the end of their appropriate rectangle, two arcs for closed eyes, a half circle for a smiling face along with a tongue and teeth. I gathered my coloring utensils from my pencil box and started to color in the salsa and chip. I used a red and red orange in the salsa cup for the salsa and the tomatoes, green for cilantro, and light blue to show the empty spaces. For the chip I did yellow for the whole body, and green with red and white for the shoes. My teacher took a photo of my drawings, emailed them to me, and I uploaded the photos to my files, then into Scratch.
The programs I used to put the images together in a GIF format are Scratch to animate the GIF and https://ezgif.com/. I used Scratch because I was already familiar with its layout and already knew how to animate it. I used ezgif because it was simple to convert a video to a GIF with just a click of a button.
To create the GIF, I first drew the chip and salsa cup since they were the main stars in my GIF. I colored them in with my colored pencils and had my teacher take a picture of them and send them to me with Gmail. I uploaded the photos to my files and then to Scratch where I colored them again with the paint tool in the costume tab to make chip and salsa cup brighter. Then, I placed the new chip and salsa cup sprites at the edge of the screen where the GIF will happen. I placed the sprites in the middle and wrote down the coordinates so they could glide to that spot when I clicked the green flag. I went to the salsa cup sprite and coded it to when it touches the chip sprite it broadcasts message 1 where salsa and chip both hide and the salsa explosion comes on the screen. I coded the explosion to show and to switch costumes every 0.3 seconds 6 times and to hide when that was complete and send out broadcast 2 to bring in chip and salsa sprite.
Next, I coded that when the chip and salsa received broadcast 2, to show up in the middle of the screen. I also coded it to when I clicked the Space bar, everything resets so if the video doesn’t turn out so good I could click that and restart fresh. Finally, I pressed the Ctrl, Shift, and F5 key and switched to video capture to take the recording of the GIF in Scratch. I renamed the video to ChipandSalsaGIF and uploaded the video to ezgif and converted it into a GIF.
I created this GIF because I was hungry and went to El Mazatlan a few days before where I ate their golden crisp chips and salsa. I thought it would be fun to animate my favorite snack and I started drawing.
The goal of my GIF was to share my favorite snack with others in a fun creative way.
The feature of my GIF that I am most proud of is the animation of my GIF because it comes together smoothly to make a mini story.
Problems I faced while creating the GIF was the color of the sprites when I uploaded them and trying to make the chip’s leg go up. The colors were very dull and looked boring so I recolored them in Scratch with the paint tool and for the leg, I put it in Bitmap so I could select the leg and twist it up. I went back with the paint tool to fix the rough edges of the leg and I was done.
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