The Animated ASL Word of the Day was a success. Instead of animating the next word, I wanted to try that tool on advertisements for the dictionary. To see if it made them more eye-catching. The Touch of Colour ad will be the first. The ad is selling the fact the dictionary is better because it is in colour instead of black and white by the kid touching the wall to give it some colour. Adding animation will help bring life to this still image. When the kid (who also blinks) moves forward and touches the wall, he activates the tagline and the colour that will bleed into the image and book title. To post this ad on Instagram and Twitter, I used Adobe Express to convert the gif into an mp4 video file. Let me know if the final image is eye-catching.
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MOVING RIGHT ALONG
The latest addition to my Web Site and Facebook is the Animated ASL Word of the Day. Taking ASL hand signs from my Dictionary, I separate each picture into multiple frames to animate them with Adobe Photoshop. I was looking for a new angle for my book’s online media presence. Adding motion to the still images was a perfect fit. ASL is a language defined by motion, incorporating animation allows me to add extra life to the words in my book.
I started with the ASL hand sign for SMART. The cartoon is of Charles McKelvey, the ASL teacher who looked at my American Sign Language artwork and told me to make a book.
SEEING DOUBLE
With the ASL101 course completed (with an A), I returned to my work designing the illustrations for my second website. Below is the first draft for the main page, Seeing the Words. It shows three pictures from my dictionary, Tree, Sky, and Rainbow. I made different backgrounds for each character. An art piece that also represented the words they are signing. A design choice inspired by De’Via art. The art genre I learned about when I did the research for my Chuck Baird paper in my ASL class. Without that class, without that assignment, this picture would never happen. Even with the dictionary finished, my Deaf ASL teachers continue to give me guidance and inspiration for my work.
FOOLS DAY
In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, I drew a cartoon of the ASL Hand sign for FOOL. The word Fool has connections to the terms Stupid, Silly, and Dumb. For this reason, I used the same character for Fool that I had for the other words. In my Book, Clowns illustrate Greetings and Emotions. I changed the look for these clowns as I thought if that Jesters often dress in large colorful outfits, one wearing a mediocre, brown business suit would be just plain ridiculous.
The extra fun to this story is that I didn’t need to draw another clown at all. The sign for Fool is already in my dictionary as the hand sign for TRICK. Now do I feel like the Poissson d’avril!
