The elephant and the mouse.

During this activity we focused mainly on the beizier. We looked at a picture of these animals and had to completley re-create them using the beizier tool, and basic shapes. Nodes were a bi part of this, too many nodes and it would look messy, too little nodes and it would be too straight or too round.

I chose the elephant because it looked more challenging. I used the path operation union quite a lot, and gradients for every part of the body to look more dark or light.

The mouse was a lot easier considering that it is smaller and has less parts to re-create.

Animal Faces.

For the past two lessons we have been creating animal faces mainly with the path opeations and bizier tool.
I decided to create the polar bear, lion, tiger, and bull or longhorn, whichever one fits better. The polar bear was the easiest one to make and I used the path operation division. I used that for the mouth so it looks more realistic and the seperation is more clear. For every animal Iused align and distribute to make sure the eyes were at the same level and same distance appart. The three main path operations were Division, Union, and Differnce.

After learning more about these path operations in the lesson yesterday I was able to create more and make the animals look more advanced. The same with align and distribute you can't just have one eye and the top of the head and one eye kind of below it. So Align and Distribute to center.

Following up with the penguin, this was another one of the assignments I choose to try and re-create. This one was more difficult, one of the main things we looked into were layers. First we started with the pointy background and the gradient in that was one layer. Then we had to re-create another layer for the hearts, and flowers called the heart layer. We created these layers so things that are not meant to move don't move are get deleted with other items that might be.

Having learned how to create the heart before completling this it was easier and quicker to master. The flowers were a mesh of hearts put together in a circle to create the petals.

Again with the hearts we had to put multiple hearts in to make it look 3-d and a shine to complete it and make it look better.

We also had to turn around the hearts by double clicking and moving them around.

The background was harder we used the clone applictation from just two triangles upside down facing each other they became 15 of the smae things in a completle background, with just a square with the same gradients underneath.