Ladies and gentlemen,
quite possibly the most embarassing thing I have ever created:
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~v5armstrong/loosh3.html
My text assignment is going much better than the cat one. I am just having a little trouble linking my buttons so they work in succession.
Sadly, it is going to have to be late. I'm sure I could turn it around if I just had a couple more hours and figured out how buttons worked. I tryed going back to what Leon showed me in class and copying and pasting but it just isn't working out.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
IN PROGRESS: TEXT ANIMATION
My text animation is going slightly better than the cat one. I am getting a better grasp of how symbols can work with each other and within each other. Also, the Motion Editor panel was nice to learn about. I'm just dipping my toes in with the blur tool. So far I am assembling this animation with different scenes that will be linked together through buttons that the user clicks to move forward through the poem's lines. Right now I have the intro and first line done. Keeping it simple, again. But for me, in this class, simpler is most definitely the way to go. The fewer frustrations I run into the better for my morale. When I can't do something or figure something out with Flash I get super flustered. But when things are working for me I stay excited about the project... probably a pretty standard pattern of emotion. Anyway, here is a shot of the end frame of the Intro scene:
The images that will be in the background of each scene are light paintings I've taken at various shows I've been to in the past year.
IN PROGRESS: FLASH ANIMATION
Third time's a charm (i hope).
As you may or may not remember, I've been having a devil of a time finishing this animation about my cat Looshkin taking drastic measures to curb the kitty population. Well, again the concept has evolved to something simpler, and more realistic in terms of completion. As I have a really hard time understanding the ins and outs of Flash software I am taking a primarily frame by frame approach to the project, as not to be daunted by the bone tool and movie clips and tweens. They are still in there, but less so.
The new storyline is basically Looshkin's antics as she playfully chases a butterfly, only to eat it at the end. Here are the images I am using:
You can see what I have so far here.
Still awful. But I am kind of embracing the primitive awkwardness at this point and find it kind of comical. Clearly I am some sizing issues in this iteration of the project. When I made the graphics in Illustrator and transfered them to Flash I thought that they were too big on the stage, so I started making them smaller. But between alternating going about sizing adjustments on the stage and from the symbols themselves I just kind of catapulted myself into a vortex of sizing problems which got me to the ridiculous animation you just saw. Hopefully with some of Leons help it won't be too difficult to correct.
As you may or may not remember, I've been having a devil of a time finishing this animation about my cat Looshkin taking drastic measures to curb the kitty population. Well, again the concept has evolved to something simpler, and more realistic in terms of completion. As I have a really hard time understanding the ins and outs of Flash software I am taking a primarily frame by frame approach to the project, as not to be daunted by the bone tool and movie clips and tweens. They are still in there, but less so.
The new storyline is basically Looshkin's antics as she playfully chases a butterfly, only to eat it at the end. Here are the images I am using:
Still awful. But I am kind of embracing the primitive awkwardness at this point and find it kind of comical. Clearly I am some sizing issues in this iteration of the project. When I made the graphics in Illustrator and transfered them to Flash I thought that they were too big on the stage, so I started making them smaller. But between alternating going about sizing adjustments on the stage and from the symbols themselves I just kind of catapulted myself into a vortex of sizing problems which got me to the ridiculous animation you just saw. Hopefully with some of Leons help it won't be too difficult to correct.
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