Week 9: Flash Animation

Hey Guys! Today I present my flash assignment. Come to think of it, everyone will be presenting their assignment sometime this week. So....Good for us!

It was definitely a struggle I'll tell you that. Flash seemed like photoshop, except everything is moveable. I found this the hardest concept to wrap my head around. But I guess I did and this is what I came up with.

I decided to design my flash around the station North York Centre, and what a ghost town it is. My first task was to creat my background. For this I found a picture of a TTC car on the internet. "HE COPIED SOMETHING FROM THE INTERNET!???" You exclaim. No, no, no, I simply copied the picture onto my stage and traced over it with various rectangles, pencils, brushes. I found the task of filling in each and every single detail so instead went for a sort of mosaic look. However, I feel I still got the same sort of feeling of a subway car with my finished product.

Then I wanted to illustrate someone walking onto the subway and waiting to go. I went for like a sketched sort of look with jagged edges. I did this for two reasons: One because I found that it was very difficult to try and recreate a detailed representation of any person, and secondly because I felt that a jagged character seems to fit in nicely with the animated subway car.

Afterwards I made a sort of tumble weed. At first the tumble weed was supposed to roll in a certain fashion, but instead I had to resort to it just following a straight line. However I feel the same effect was carried.

But here is the biggest problem of all! My sound wasn't working! Why oh why! I had recorded a really cool westernish song to be played in the background. It had banjoes, fiddles, even the sound of crop dust. What else could you want!? Apparently, Flash wanted a file format that I had never heard of. So although I wasn't able to include audio that started on the push of my button, I was still able to include the "This is North York Centre Station" announcement.

From this assignment I learned that Flash is definitely a harder program to use and cannot see myself using it in the near future. Honestly, I don't understand why I would ever use this program considering the amount of stress i felt everytime I discovered I had a "syntax error". Maybe if I master flash in a couple years I'll use it more frequently. But that's not happening.

In reference to my peers work, there's were amazing! You'd think I was in a room full of flash pros. One in particular was Andrew Chachula's. He did a kinetic text flash animation to his friend's band. The music and words were synced to the tee. I was really impressed and just though it was worth mentioning!

So that's all for now.

Ok bhuy

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