Project:

1. Create a pixel art head (of your agreed upon classmate in your section team).
2. Blow up your head image
3. Then make an animated gif of all of your team’s images. See samples below.

Studio skills:

**Pushing pixels and making the pixel art head portrait:

Techniques in: Photoshop Basics

setting up an original image, png/gif file formats, pencil tool, fill tool, seeing essence and simplifying color, resizing images.

Tutorials in Photoshop http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=414 and in class reserve in library

For info on : Resolution, Bit depth, in depth schema on bit depth File Formats see lecture

Basic Graphics File Formats intro

Graphics File Formats all

Animation in Photoshop: importing folder as frames, tween, timing, save as optimized

Color Understanding Digital Color

Task:

Using techniques covered in lecture, studio and your own artistic research, create a pixel art head (of your agreed upon classmate in your section team)

* create an image file of 73 x 100 in Photoshop, RGB 8bit

* Create upon this 73 x 100 space a pixel head using a one pixel pencil tool and eraser. Keep in the tradition of the pixel art. For tips see: How to do a pixel head:

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/g/2006/06/how-to-do-pixel-head.html

* save as png (see Basic Graphics File Formats intro)

* Take your head and blow it up using: image, image size, pixel dimensions, 370 x 507, Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges) interpolation, save the new image with a different name from the little image

* Then put all completed 370 x 507 team heads into a folder.

USE EITHER/OR depending on your version of the program:

* In PhotoshopCS3: animation “import” that “folder as frames”.

or

* In Photoshop CS4: Go to: File | Scripts | Load Files into Stack...

Select: Use Folder

Browse and click OK.

* Use the tween tool with 5 frames to add, all layers, check all parameter boxes (position, opacity, effects). Then use .5 second frame delay time interval for each frame. Then go to file, save optimized as, images only gif (animated gif).

Deliverables

* 1, 73 x 100, png pixel head of your agreed upon classmate in your section team in rgb 8bit

* 1 larger version 370 x 507 using correct interpolation methodology to preserve the pixel look
* 1, animated gif of all 4 large heads (370 x 507) tweened with .5 second frame delay time interval

Animated Gif:

Pixel Art Student Samples

Grading Criteria:

1. Assignment completed on-time

2. Adherence to the size and file format specifications

3. Appropriate use of tools.

4. Exploration and application of creative tools in Photoshop and Image-Ready

5. Quality and clarity of class presentation

6. Likeness of your image to the actual individual

7. Quality of your animate gif morph