February 3rd 2010: Cupid's A'Coming

He's gonna getcha.

Poster Of Intent

Simple facts.
Had to make this for a crit deal.

Title text animation

So heres the opening title text to my animation. All of "the prisonhouse of nations" text is hand animated (drawn) over 54 frames and then dropped into flash. That took forever. about 13 hours in total. The rest is done in flash using movie clip objects and filters. I think this works pretty well as a starting intro to my animation as it sets the tone and gives the viewer a little information about the movie.

February 2nd 2010: The Death Of An Addict

Today is the anniversary of the death of Mr. Vicious.
He was possibly the worst musician ever.

Flash Lesson 2

In lesson two it got a little bit more complex. It involved creating a basic motion tween on a movie clip. Then entering the movie clip, importing movie clip objects given to us in illustrator and creating a repeating animation within the original movie clip by moving each individual componant on the spot. We learnt about onion skinning which shows the surrounding frames so that you can move them slightly, as an illustrative animator would do.

I then created my own movie clip sections in illustrator to create my own character and animated him in the same way.

Flash Buttons

So my video wont save to a quicktime format so I can't post it but I need to evaluate it. Basically we learnt how to make a very simple "website" format using flash, using actionscript and buttons to navigate between the pages. It's really easy, you just convert things to buttons and then add over and hit frames within them and then use actionscipt to link them to the other frames.

February 1st 2010: They've Learnt To Swim

I just nearly had a heart attack. My USB went bust and I nearly lost all my files. Yeeeesh.

Swimsuit Zombie.