Learning how to animate my postcard was very interesting. I had always been afraid of Photoshop in a way, but through making the font poem and the collage, plus how much I’ve learned in my Typography class, my opinions have changed. Through both of these courses I have learned so much about Photoshop that I feel pretty confident that I can make some pretty cool stuff with Photoshop, like this animated postcard. I found this assignment pretty easy to grasp, once I got the basic jist.

I decided to put a blank slide in the beginning of the animation because I thought that it was a nicer transition to slowly add words than just having words on a page, then adding more slide-by-slide. I also decided that each word have it’s own slide and be spaced around two seconds apart.

I decided to have the separated words, whiskers and raindrops be added in two pieces on different slides because I wanted to go with the flow of the poem itself, so this way while the words are popping up in front of you, you are saying them to yourself with the right amount of pauses and the pauses are in the right places.

For the word whiskers, as I said, it is separated into two parts, which appear on different frames and then I added opt-8 dots to add to the whisker effect. For the dots I made the first two appear in different slides and the last four appear in pairs, for a quirky effect.

Lastly I added the fade into effect so that the final font poem would transition smoothly into the final collage.

I like the final outcome a lot! I thought that the gaps in between each slide were very well-timed to make it have a smooth transition from one to the other and especially the transition into the collage. It was very important to me to not have the transition from the font poem to the collage be choppy because I feel that it looks very amiture-ish and the goal, at least for me, was to look like I know what I’m doing, and I feel as though I got that message across very well.