This week I spent most of my time home for the Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. I tried to get some work done on my animation Sunday night before leaving for Long Island on Monday. After some Black Friday Christmas shopping while I was home, I think that asking for the Adobe Suite will be a smart choice! My rationale-- waiting on all those lines during the holiday season is a nightmare when I can just order some software online!
One new element that I added to my animation is actually a VW Beetle that I drew in Illustrator for another one of my classes. I made the VW Beetle into a movieclip so that its wheels spin constantly. The VW drives passed a few houses and then the camera zooms in on the house in the center. The UFO flies into the scene, getting smaller and smaller, and directs a beam of light into one of the windows of the house. I created the beam of light on its own layer and used a shape tween to animate it. I used a low alpha on the light to make it more believable. In addition I added puffs of smoke coming out of the chimnneys of the houses. The smoke clouds are a movie clip as well.
I also worked on my outerspace scene a bit. I played around with the speed of my alien character's walk cycle. My next goal is to design the inside of the house and create an outerspace scene leading to the alien planet.
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