Assignment #4

Upload assignment #1. In this first assignment, i was to anmiate Photoshop brushes in Flash. I concieved the main idea for the piece before I actually took the picture. First, I found free brushes of birds. Then, in photoshop, I seperated the wings from three bird brushes, and saved each piece into their own layer. I imported all of my layers into Flash, but i had five animations to piece back together. I studied slow-motion water drips to create the stretch, bounce,and atomization of the dropplet. I made two copys of the drips, then revieled the bird-brushes as though they morph from the drip. The last animation was of another bird flying accross the screen. When I first added them, they looked great. As I cleaned up some of the timing issues, however, they became jittered. After I finished the birds, I NEEDED a picture. So I snapped one of the nearest pole. My original concept had the top of the pole level in the shot, but I was unable to find a spot to take the picture. Having a setting for the bird drips, and most of my original concept ruined, i needed a reason for the drips. I had to rework the ending credit animation too. I forgot to mention that i also put the soundtrack togeather myself in Audacity. I used Premier to lay the flash animatin and audio track togeather. I timed out the vibration noise on a frame-to-seconds dope-sheet. The vibration itself is just two copies of the transformer with the opacity levels taken down.