Week 5

Last week we went over how to make a bouncing ball animation and how to make a movie clip animation of a butterfly. I learned both of these processes last semester, but I was very happy that we reviewed the processes once again. I had a lot of trouble with movie clips in my final animation last year so going over the details of making a movie clip was very helpful.

For my bouncing ball animation I decided to make my ball bounce once and then fall into a hole that I rabbit would then hop out of. I chose to include trees and grass in my background image, focuses on the size of trees in order to create a sense of depth. I then placed a black hole on a separate layer and drew my rabbit character on another layer. I realized that I needed to create another layer of green grass to place in the area underneath the hole so that it would appear as if the ball was falling into the hole and the rabbit was coming out of the hole. During our class critique I learned that there is a way to create a mask so that I do not need to make an extra layer in the future. Hopefully I will learn that process in the coming weeks before our next project is due. In addition to the rabbit, I created a word bubble has the word "Hey!" inside of it. I put the bubble and word two different layers so that the word could flash a few times. I played with the opacity of the word bubble and word as well.

As for the butterfly movie clip, once a finished my movie clip I began working on the scene that it would fly through. I created a path for the butterfly to follow and I changed the orientation of the butterfly so that it would look more believable as it flew across the path. I needed to check of a box in properties to align the butterfly to the path as well. Currently I am still working on my butterfly animation. So far I have created clouds in the background that are tweened and run on a loop.