Over the past two weeks I have spent a lot of time in the Steel Plant working on my animation. I'm one to leave things until the last minute, but I've enjoyed designing my animation so much that I have gotten a lot more work done earlier than I ever would have thought. For this week all I have to do is add in my sound and edit my first scene a bit.
The scenes that I've added are the living room scene, kitchen scene, space travel scene and the dancing aliens scene. A lot of my animation is made up of classic tweens and shape tweens. I used shape tweens to make transitions from one scene to the next. I changed the alpha of black squares to do this. I played a lot with creating movie clips as well. For example, I created a Christmas Tree with flashing lights. I also included the smoke movie clip from a priorly created scene in my kitchen scene. The smoke comes out of a pot on the stove in the kitchen. I made a symbol of a large smoke cloud that grows and gets darker. I decided to make the smoke cloud as a reaction to the UFO that shines its light beam into the kitchen window. I thought that it would be a good way to create an eerie situation. I plan on adding in UFO sounds in the kitchen scene to add to the eeriness. I also created a music note movie clip to add some continuity to my scenes. There is a flow of musical notes that attracts my alien character as well as the UFO.
For my outerspace scene I created a starry background. I created multiple layers of stars to create a sense of death and I played with making it appear as if a camera is zooming in so that the alien planet comes into view. My planet scene with the dancing aliens will include Christmas music that will transition into the song "Cynthia She's a Really Cool Dancer." My alien characters are all done frame by frame. Each motion for the alien characters are different symbols. I finished the animation with credits flying up the stage on a black background. I also made a movie clip that says Merry Christmas with flashing lights.
