Things I Did In Class Today

Today in class we added a stop the animation at the beggining and end and we added a button. In the beginig we added a frame and called it stopmoving then we added a action to make it stop form frame one. Then we drew are button using the rectangle tool but, before that we had to set the rounding properties to 5 points so it wasn't so square. We then added a gradient color to it and use the gradient tool to make it just a circle in the rectangle. We converted it to a button and set how it would cnage color when you go over it and click down on and the hit area was made. We then made an action to make it play when you click it and we set an action in the stopmoving frame to stop and the end. we finnaly edit the reset button at the end so when you click after the movie is done it would go back to the begining.

5 Things I Learned Today

The five things I learned today in class were:

1) how to make a button.

2) how to use actions to make a part in the animation stop.

3) how to make the button cause the animation to go.

4) how to make button area where you click.

5) how to make a button out of text and covert it.

5 W's of my Animation

I am going to do person who will be flying in the air he will be flapping his arms as if they are wings. He will be outside and it will be a stickman. After flying he will land on the grass. I will use frame by frame animation to make this possible.

Animation Review

Butterflies - I like the use of the grass and flowers.

Hobo - It confused me a little bit but I eventually got what was being done.

Pink Ball - needing more animation like a person kicking the futbol.

Elaine - I like the use of the name fading out at the end.

Mushrooms - I thought it was creative by using the mushrooms but i was confused at the red object.

Leapfrog - I thought this was very creative becuase they were jumping over each other and rotating

Mario & Karate Kid - They needed to edit more in fireworks because I could still see the white areas.

Star & Heart - I like how they rotated the star and heart around each other.

Penguin - They should of slowed the transparency so I could see the bee more.

Batsketball - They could of made the bat hit the basketball.

Monster & Chicken - I liked how the made the chicken disapper after the monster appered I thought it was funny.

DFC - I liked how they made the chicken disappears and how the dragon had fire come out.

5 Techniques Learned in Flash

Five techniques I learn in flash were motion tweening, shape tweening, using ease, change the size of the object, and using the transform tool. With motion tweens I was able to move the object to different locating on the stage with the motion path. With shape tween I was able to change the shape of the object and use shape hints to change the shape even more different. While I was using ease i was able to make my animation go fater at certain points or go slower and certain points. When i change the size I could use a keyframe and motion tweens to give the allusion of the objects getting smaller or bigger in the animation. Then finnaly using the transform tool I can rotate the object make it bigger or smaller by compressing it or strecthing it. These techniques in flash were very cool.

Motion Tween and Shape Tween

Similarites

1) Motion Tween and Shape Tween they both move objects.

2) They are in the insert tab on the menu bar.

3) You need a object in order to create a create a tween.

4) You need to insert a frame in order to insert a tween.

5) Both tween can be removed.

6) You can change the ease on both tweens.

7) You can copy both tweens.

8) They both use the timeline and can be jerky if not enough frame are used

9) You can change the color

10) They can both change at the end

Differences

1) Shape tween change the shape of the object

2)You use shape hints to change the sahpe in a shape tween.

3) Motion tween moves the whole object.

4) Shape tween use a keyframe to change the object.

5)Motion tween can be any frame

Compare Animations

My animation experience was a lot more easier than what is was back in the day. I just go on a computer and everything is pretty much there for me all I have to do is click on what i want and it gets done for me. In earlier times they had to draw each drawing and take a picture of it. For some movies it was over 4,000 drawings which took a long time to make.Now we put pictures on alot of frame but it is a lot easuer becuase we have computers. Its not like how is now because it take less time to make animations. My animation experience was a lot more easier then it was before.