Week 7

On Thursday we presented our finished animations in class. I was pleased with my final outcome. I think that combining all of the exercises that we did in class was a great way to practice different techniques and to see how different techniques can be applied to my final project. I really enjoyed working with my butterfly movie clip. I experimented by creating different paths for my movie clip to follow. I also experimented by scaling my movie clip differently in order to give my butterfly the illusion of flying closer to the ground and then flying up toward the sky. During the week I also played around a lot with getting the timing of my animation just right. I had a lot of trouble getting the end of the second scene just right. I enjoy working with text but sometimes it is difficult to judge how long text should remain on the stage. I created a layer to transition from the bird's eye view scene to a black background. I created a box that was completely see through and then used a shape tween It was important for me to make the trees, rabbit hole, and the road in my first scene one graphic symbol rather than three separate graphics. By making everything one symbol I could use one classic tween and not have to worry about lining all of the objects up exactly right and exactly proportioned on separate layers. To add some sense of surprise to my animation I decided to add three additional yellow balls in my first scene.