Pixel Art and Pixel Animation

Today for the summer learning journey I had to make pixel art on my chromebook with Pixel Art Maker and for the step it up I made a christmas tree with lights animation on Piskel. I have used Piskel before so I knew how to do everything! for the pixel art I did tolaga bay with 2 surfers, 2 swimmers, 1 diver and 1 fisher. Did you know that there are pixels on every device we see? Even the one you're seeing this blog on! I learnt that with just these 3 colours, each pixel can generate over 16 million distinguishable colour variations! I enjoyed making the animation because on each slide I just had to go over the colour before it. It was tricky to make the wharf on the pixel art because there was no brown option. So I just made it a very dark orange and it looked fine. Next time I would change it so there was more people swimming and surfing. 

Here is my pixel art:

Here is the tree animation (sorry if it is blurry for you):

Special Spot Of Summer

Yesterday for my summer learning journey I had to do a special spot of summer. I chose to do Tolaga bay or Uawa because it is my favourite beach in the Gisborne region. My Mum took the videos and showed me how to edit them together. It is quite tricky to edit videos.

I learnt that the wharf is 660m long and almost 100 years old!

I liked walking down the wharf because the view is amazing!

It was hard to do the part where I got changed quickly because we had to make sure I was in the same place by drawing a line in the sand to see where my feet were.

Next time I would film it in the day because we had to stop filming and go home because it was getting dark. But the good part was that the sun setting made the clouds look really cool and it was safer with the sun with not much chance of getting burnt.

Here is my video: