Sliding Effect

September 30, 2010

This week we started creating a sliding effect with Kirby. This consisted of many steps and using many "Classic Tweens". A lot of this one was just converting to a symbol and placing it on differet timings. Also, you use the Alpha effect to fade it out. Personally, I don't think I did this right at all. The background is the same one I used from the jumping animation. I guess you can say I was a bit lazy. Maybe I'll go back and create the moving background, but for now, I'm going to post this. It came out decently and that's all I'm proud of.


Jumping into Animation

September 24, 2010

We're starting to animate characters in flash. This one is just animating a simple jump using Kirby. I'd like to say simple seeing as there are many frames and converting to do. Every piece of the body is converted as a symbol before moving it to create motion. We used "Classic Tweens" for this one. I'd say there were about 45 frames involved for this animation. Creating the background was easy after learning about layers and such. When the body parts were created, you can turn them into separate layers. This made the whole thing a lot easier considering it'd be kind of hard to do it all on one layer. I'm not loving my animation considering it's not that smooth and for some reason the parts disconnect. I must've done something wrong in the whole thing because in the tutorial, it looked like one motion. My Kirby animation looks strained and stiff. I might want to go back and fix this one some day.

The Bouncing Ball

September 16-17, 2010
Basically, we started creating animations with 3-D objects. We started with a bouncing ball. Pretty simple, right? That's what I thought, but who knew all of the things involved to create such a simple motion. Using tweens such as the Classic tween made moving the ball easily. We converted the basic ball into a symbol to make editing and animating simple. It also allowed us to place many of the same symbol on the blank frame. I wish I could've animted this a lot better.

Getting the animation to work on Blogger, we had to use HTML coding. This made me happy because I use to love messing around with HTML codes.

First Week of Animation

September 13-14, 2010

We started doing animations this week and began with the basic stuff such as Shape Tween and how to insert Keyframes. Our first assignment involved animated a bird with a sun and some mountains in the background. He then told us to add clouds today, but that was pretty simple. Clearly, I'm anti-mountain, so I decided to make a desert instead. I love the gradient fill tool. Anyways, I enjoyed messing around with the different options to animate the sun, clouds, and bird. The layering helped massively with this project. It was a major thing to remember.

First 3 Projects

September 2, 2010

The first assignment of the year and mine has no effort put in it. The red car is completely lame because I couldn't insert the other car I drew from Photoshop into flash for some reason. Learning about the shapes tool was nothing new. This one didn't take long to make.

September 3, 2010

We did this other project the following day about other shapes and how to adjust them. He told us to draw a tree with interesting polygons and stars. I decided to be lame again and made a simple tree. I might redo this one later on in the year.

September 7, 2010

We worked with gradients and more shapes. This is starting to get a bit repetitious, but I can't complain because we took our first steps into creating 3-D imaging. I didn't have too much fun with this one, but even so, it was an interesting way to use gradients. I hope we can start animating soon, but practicing like this is good too.

Mmm Blog.

 

Geez I'm totally lame sauce.