Multimedia Marking Period Three

Assignment #23

         Assignment 23 was one of the last SketchUp assignments in this class, and definitely the most tedious, having to constantly measure, remeasure, resize and recolor different sections of the house, especially around corners and on "faces." Just making the house itself was the hardest part, with all these shapes constantly stacking ontop of one another, but this might just have been part of my laziness. If I had taken my time and not rushed to finish this assignment in time, the sides of the house might be more detailed.

Assignment #24

         Assignment 24 had me taking a 2-D picture of the gingerbread house I made in the assignment before, and making it appear 3-D, with the help of 3-D glasses, of course. To do this, you simply isolate the house from the background, duplicate the layer which contains the house, and change the colors of the house, with one layer just being red, and the other layer not having the red color. Lastly, I changed the background layer to a simple, snowy background.

Assignment #25

            With the start of the third marking period, the first assignment I was tasked with was animation. This animation, in particular, was a series of images played one after the other, in rapid, repeating succession, with the start of the animation having the button without the glow, the middle of the animation with the glow on, and the end of the animation without the glow, once again. The extension .gif stands for the Graphics Interchange Format, and is an image format that was introduced in 1987, and has still been in use to this day, due to its wide support and portability, as well as the fact that it can be used for short animations and videos.

Assignment #26

              Assignment 26 was my last assignment of the first term, and it is made to look like a room, or shelf, that is used to display things of importance. A lot of planning went into making this assignment, because the beginning rectangle must be a very specific size, to fit the other rectangles and the actual displayed images as well. The numerous gradients in specific places gives the spectator the illusion that this is a three dimensional room, even though this image was name in a two dimensional plane. The ceiling is also lined with three ovals, that of which, with the help of a transparent trapezoid and transparent circle, give the illusion that light is being shined down upon these three images.