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.