For our 3rd project we were given the task of making a running animation. Nothing as complicating as it sounds, rather just animating the character moving into the position to begin running, and then leaving a trail of dust or cloud in his place.
Unfortunately I was working on the finishing details of the morphing animations upstairs on one of the newer macs as it had the latest version of Flash CS 5.5 on them (while the macs nearest the animation room ran on CS 4), and so I did not hear Tony explain the task directly, rather from fellow students. But I do not believe that handicapped my understanding of the project, nor the quality of the final animation. Aside from the fact I did not have a a printer at home to scan the images in, and so had to use take picture of the frames and then upload them to my laptop.
Plot wise I am happy with the animation. I think the character I drew was humorous and appropriate, although I believe I could have made it a bit bigger to fill the screen. I also believe I should have made the characters torso smaller and more proportionate to the rest of the body, at the time I thought the larger torso would make the character look more stereotypical of an aristocrat, but when it came time to rotate the character a little bit, I found it just looked odd compared to size of his limbs.
Technical wise I am happy with the outcome. I scanned the images in from home, then converted them from PDF format into JPEG. The process of converting them into a JPEG was an unexpected chore, but was simple. I downloaded a free file converter from an online source, and then put all the frames through it, I was then able to put them into the editing software. I believe the final piece is effective, although one thing that'd improve the animation would be the cloud at the end. If I had drawn the cloud to show the vacuum made with the characters absence, and its direction following the characters, it would have looked more realistic.
Unfortunately I was working on the finishing details of the morphing animations upstairs on one of the newer macs as it had the latest version of Flash CS 5.5 on them (while the macs nearest the animation room ran on CS 4), and so I did not hear Tony explain the task directly, rather from fellow students. But I do not believe that handicapped my understanding of the project, nor the quality of the final animation. Aside from the fact I did not have a a printer at home to scan the images in, and so had to use take picture of the frames and then upload them to my laptop.
Plot wise I am happy with the animation. I think the character I drew was humorous and appropriate, although I believe I could have made it a bit bigger to fill the screen. I also believe I should have made the characters torso smaller and more proportionate to the rest of the body, at the time I thought the larger torso would make the character look more stereotypical of an aristocrat, but when it came time to rotate the character a little bit, I found it just looked odd compared to size of his limbs.
Technical wise I am happy with the outcome. I scanned the images in from home, then converted them from PDF format into JPEG. The process of converting them into a JPEG was an unexpected chore, but was simple. I downloaded a free file converter from an online source, and then put all the frames through it, I was then able to put them into the editing software. I believe the final piece is effective, although one thing that'd improve the animation would be the cloud at the end. If I had drawn the cloud to show the vacuum made with the characters absence, and its direction following the characters, it would have looked more realistic.
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