Kimora Limas
                Digital Media Portfolio

1. In as much detail as possible record the steps it took to create this project in Adobe illustrator. Use complete sentences.​ Try to recall as many of the different tools, shapes, and keyboard commands as possible.  

In the beginning I opened Adobe Illustrator, At first I thought of tracing a photo of myself, Instead I used the pen tool to trace parts of my nose, after I did that I removed the stroke and filled it in with a color similar to my skin tone, after I grouped the face together and made a neck shape, I ungrouped and moved around the face. I had to use multiple art boards for the body, For the body I had used a character sheet, I did not move or animate the feet/legs as much but after I used the shape builder tool to cut the  eye lashes in half so that i could make the blinking animation, It is poorly animated. Before I moved it to PS I turned it into a file and used all art boards, it originally was all PNG's When I moved it so PS) After I was done with filling and removing stroke from certain areas to make it look like the style I wanted I went to file "Export" and then pressed "Save for Web (Legacy)" and then I changed it into a GIF, ect.
2. What was the most challenging part of creating your Avatar?'

The most challenging part was making it look like me, I think its close but more in a animated type of style, I thought making shoes and the sweat-pants were very difficult.

3. What ways did you move the arms and legs to create movement? Did your Avatar move like you wanted it to?

I created movement by  moving the arms, eyes and body with different art boards and moving them to where I thought looked nice.
4. Are there any improvements you would make next time? Why or why not?

Next time I think that I would move them and add way more art boards for a smoother animation because I think that I could have done way better thought this finished product is nice, I would love a smoother look.