Project 3 Elizabeth Wyman

For this project I used Classic Tweens. I used different option to create different effects. I created objects that I converted to symbols as well as using symbols from the library. The hardest one was the flower. I had to create several different modifications of the flower to make it look like it was growing. I added all these symbols to my library. I used a motion guide on the circle and the polygon. I found the tutorials useful practice before starting my project to get a better idea of the time line and symbol modification.

Luciana Alberto Project 3

Here is my animated ghost. I used different layers and used classic motion, created frames and animated the image. I enjoyed doing this project, but I need to practice more flash to get better.

Lazarus Avery Project 3: Nightmare Scenario

Okay, so admittedly this project got a little strange. I admit it, alright? I know it's become some sort of nightmare scenario. I CAN say that this was because it's Halloween... but i felt I needed to get down to the root of fear, and thusly, you have this animation - the root of fear.

Can't quite figure out how to show everyone the video, but this is the middle frame. In the actual animation, the smiley flies across the screen as a classic tween. The Chuck Norris head is flying from the opposite direction using a motion path. It's also rotating the whole while. The bushes grow - this was an accident, but I liked it.

All the images are symbols, which was handy, and the I'm definitely going to keep that Chuck Norris symbol in my library for future use. For sure.

I didn't use the tutorials for this project, but I had a lot of fun making this project! Look forward to more in the future.

Christian Boneta - Project 3

My project came out of watching a movie that the super hero was to late and its basically that

6 layers total were used for this
1 motion guide layer
1 Layer for the Hero to transition around
1 Layer was for object rotation on the stick-man that's jumping and symbol color change at the end of the animation
1 layer for the background aka the ground
1 layer for the environment tree and clouds rock with blood and pool of blood at the end
1 layer for the action script command to end the movie

the tutorials were ok they read a bit odd but once you did it it made sense, Out of the 2 the chrome one was the tricky one but good practice to do still trying to do that masking one for some reason it just wont work. the only part of them i used was the action script to stop the movie.

overall the project was fun and the tutorials ok.

Brianna Barcus Project 3

This was a lot of fun to do. Turning everything into a symbol makes things a lot easier to work with too. The tutorials offered a lot of easy ideas, though I have to admit that the Alpha Mask tutorial was a little tricky. You had to follow the instructions to the letter to get it to work at all. In the end it's very satisfying to do.
The Classic Tweening is a lot of fun. As long as everything is on it's own layer everything plays nicely. It's clean and very very fun to work with. I created the clouds and the text in a separate document. Then I changed them to symbols. Then I started a new document and just brought everything in. The only thing I made new in the second document was the moon. I LOVE animating text, I think it's one of my favorite things to do. It's a lot of fun and makes things more interesting then just static text. I kept every symbol on it's own layer and animated everything from there. If you want to see it, go here~
http://sws.pcc.edu/student/CAS175_pdeangel_45513/briannabarcus50/Project_3/SWF_ProjectDocuments/project_3_motion.swf

Have a nice weekend and Happy Halloween! ~ Brianna Barcus

Darby Hasbrouck: Project 3

I just started playing with shapes and decided to have each of the shapes start at the outside and then merge together. The circle transformed and changed color while the rectangle just changed color. I also set up the polystar to rotate slightly. I wanted to give the background a texture rather than a solid color so i just created a layer that was a rectangle that would cover the entire stage. I imported the ball from the library of another project and found that to be a very helpful time saver. Creating the shape wouldn't have been all that tricky but it's quite convenient. I ended up using the ball as my motion guide for this project.

The tutorials were great practice for exploring new ways to use the tween and mask functions. The chrome tutorial was the trickiest but it was useful to help me explore more text effects.

This wasn't my most creative project thus far but it was great practice and I feel a lot more comfortable using the classic tween and motion guide functions.

Project 3 - Vincent Phan

My project simply involves a sun rising above a hill, and then setting while the sky and the hill darken to make the setting look like daytime transitioning into night time.

I created three layers, the sun, hill, and sky, and converted them all into their own symbols. For the sun, I created a motion guide and created a motion path using the pen tool.

The sky and hill layers are both color tweens that change from light to dark.

Although I didn't apply the tutorials to my project, they were still pretty cool to follow, especially the first tutorial which provided a small taste of action script.

Nathan Davis Project 3

Here is my animation for my Project three. http://sws.pcc.edu/student/CAS175_pdeangel_45513/nathandavis21/Project_3/project3_animation_1.swf

Go ahead and look, I'll wait.

Your back? ok, good. What I did was three layers (like we had to). The first layer I used a motion guide to go to the upper right. The second layer I used a color change. On the third I used a shape change to change it into the bomb. I find that using windings, then the "break apart" tool, is a really easy and fun way to make images.

Fullmer Project 3

Thankfully I was able to supply the class with a project that doesn’t look like it was developed by a 2nd grader…although knowing my kids technical abilities in 2nd grade they may have been able to out-do me. I imported arcade buttons in three colors, blue, green and orange, from the common library. Each button was placed on its own layer. Since we can’t upload a .swf to the blog I’ll talk you through what happens in my movie. First the green button is removed, and then the blue using a few classic tweens and when the green and blue buttons appear on screen again (together), the orange button changes color to red using a color tween. All objects were converted as symbols to the library however I already had them in the common library so now I have them saved to two libraries…I believe… The tutorials helped A LOT, especially since I missed class so unexpectedly last week. Had I not had the tutorials I‘m sure it would have taken me quite a bit longer to finish my project. Stephanie Fullmer

Brian Jepperson - Project 3

http://sws.pcc.edu/student/CAS175_pdeangel_45513/brianjepperson77/Project3/brianjepperson_assignment3.swf

The tutorials helped. I especially liked the heartbeat and chrome ones. I can definitely see using those techniques elsewhere.

For my project, I wanted to do a Halloween themed one. I just kind of threw together a lot of elements and animated them in a fun way. Most of these shapes were done with the pen, then filled with the paint bucket, and animated. I animated the size of the bats and the ghost, and animated the alpha of the cloud and the ghost. The text I broke apart into individual shapes, applied a gradient to them, then made them symbols. That way I could animated them, although I only animated the P's. I used a motion guide for the ghost's movement.

The project is no masterpiece, but it was fun. I got to work on different animation techniques.

Pamela Peterson Project 3

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The tutorials were a great reenforcement of knowledge after doing the project. The more practice the better I get. The tutorials didn't directly contribute to my project because I didn't use any of those techniques but i really enjoyed them, especialy the alpha-mask that cost me hours and hours of trouble-shooting. But how great it feels to have done it all and accomplished it, down to the last detail.

For my project I made the firecracker and background first and made them symbols. I planned to make all the symbols then compose the movie but it was easier to just compose and make symbols as I went. It was incredibly easier than I thought and am very excited and happy about this. Obviously the motion guided symbol was the fuse, the size changing symbols were the stars, and some were even rotating, though its hard to tell. I imported the duck (cause we needed to import something) for fun, and the broken firecracker also has a 360 rotation on it. That was about it. I added a flash of light behind to add to the effect.

Jeffrey Schachtsick - Project 2

I found this out the hard way, but to manage complex graphics it is best to make the graphic as big as you can get it, group all the objects together somehow, and then size it down. With the barn, I just did it to size, but my mistake should have made it really big, so I could do all the details to it later and then size it down to the size I want. Anyway, once you have the 'perfect' graphic, make sure all the layers are in a folder and it is grouped together, so you can save it to a library.
I used a lot of lines in this one, and I'm really happy with the tree and tire swing on how that turned out. I was able to use lines and make them thicker for the fence and giving it a old western style to the fence.

Luciana Alberto Project 2

This is definitely not a master piece, but it's as good as I can do right now, considering my conditions.
I used complex graphics and union the geometry so I could get the right shape for my ghost
I am going to try to animate the ghost's arms and make this image more presentable, I created the groups so that would make it more simple to identify the ghost parts and arranged the layers as it is because it was the logical way to make the objects visible

Project 2 - Christian Boneta

I grouped the layers in this one from back to front ground being start and dino/people middle and the moon was the masked object.
Being able to group was nice. The stacking order wasn't a problem, mask on top everything else feel behind it.I grouped most of the things on the complex layer just to keep them separate

It was very easy to use groups and layers to keep everything in perspective and very organized
For complex graphics on a single layer i would recommend grouping as much as you can.

Favorite tool was the free transform-tool again just cause it makes reshaping so easy
and being able to organize the layers

Project 2

Ok so I have said before, I am no artist. I grouped the circles I made for the ground and the "night sky" and "moon" together, as that seemed to make sense.

I added a couple symbols to it for some added spiffyness (or at least to take some of the "suck" out of it.)

I put the castle and gound on one layer, the sky and moon on another and the symbols (cat, tree, owl) on a third. I figured that if I was going to animate them, it would make sense to have like object on same layer.

Other then that, I apologize for making you look at this abomination.

Jeff Ashmore project 2

So I used the oval tool with a blue gradient color to make the circle pyramid. Then I saved it as a background layer. Next I used the spray tool and saved it as a darker blue layer. Lastly I saved another light blue layer as outlines, which could be turned on and off. I am not really a designer or an artist, and I am finding that out pretty fast.

Project 2 - Brianna Barcus - Falling Star

This project was very neat to do. Working with layers makes everything so much easier (even when you have the flu) . I grouped a lot of things together. For static objects it makes things easier to work with. I grouped the sky together in one group, the hills in another, and the falling star in yet another group.

I couldn't make a mask look good, so I just did a really simple one. I stacked everything pretty simply. I made sure the background was at the bottom and the falling star which is the foreground was on the top.
I think if you're going to work with complex graphics you need to use grouping. And then learn to use layers. It helps out a lot when things get.... 'complex'. One of the problems I ran across was that when you have layers that over lap each other and objects in that layer overlap each other and you try to group them things get tricky. So you have to watch out for that.

All in all a pretty fun project despite the fact I have the flu. :(

BrianJ - Project 2

I spent last weekend in Tucson, so I got inspired to do some desert art. In any case, I created this using several different layers. The cacti were created with the pen tool in merge drawing mode, the sun is a primitive shape with a subtle gradient, the everything else were done as objects.

I mostly avoided issues with single layer ordering by placing things on seperate layers, but for the purpose of the assignment I put the sky, sun, and clouds on a layer, and put them in the proper order by "managing" the objects. In this case, the order I selected is based on how things would look in terms of forground, midground, background. Nothing too crazy there.

I grouped the cloud "streaks" together, so that I could keep them together. I actually attempted a lot more clouds, but in the end cut it back to what you see above, as I had trouble making good looking clouds using Flash tools. The composition was actually done in a rectangle, but I created an oval mask and added a border around it to make it look more like a button or logo or something that could be re-used.

Recommendations for single layer stacking? Probably to use the object mode and use "arrange", plus when you can identify things that should always be together, you can "group" them.

Project 2 - Vincent Phan

I grouped my layers for this project according to the foreground and background, with the former being the ground and the person, and everything else being the latter. I created a mask layer by creating a merged ellipse and placing a gradient object behind it.

Being able to manage graphics on a single a layer was a felt a little challenging. I had to keep in mind how the stacking order worked, and also avoid using merge shapes. It's nice being able to use groups and layers, as it helps to organize the objects, and put less stress to the brain.

Inspired by the fall colors - Elizabeth Wyman

Hi All.

I had fun with this project even though I had to start over. The tree trunk crashed my Flash. :o( Not sure what happened there.... Here is the final image I came up with.

I really like being able to separate different drawing elements on layers. I could see where that would be a real advantage for animated graphics as well. Grouping was also nice to use to keep elements on a single layer together and organized. Grouping also made making all the leaves I needed for the tree easier to copy, paste and transform. I enjoyed playing with the different paint brush strokes to create texture on the tree trunk.

Darby Hasbrouck: Project 2

I began by playing with the merge shape tool and that's when I created the beak which gave me the inspiration to create a little chic. Once I figured out what i was going to create I used all three types of drawing objects on a single layer to create most of the facial attributes and then I grouped them all together. All of the parts that make up the chic are in the same folder and I played around with the order so that the body shape would show up in front of the legs.

I used 3 colors with the paint brush tool to create the grass. After i created the barn and fence I tried putting the chic behind the fence but just didn't like it that way so I switched the positioning of the folders.

I grouped a lot of the attributes of the chic just because it made everything easier to work with once I knew I was happy with what I had created on each layer.

Really my main pitfall was figuring out where to use the masking feature. I finally decided to use it to create the sun. I'm feeling more and more comfortable with flash the more I play with it.

Fullmer Project 2

Well Hello again…..It is I, the one with zero artistic ability, otherwise known as a Project Manager. I have here a simple rainbow, grass, ant hill and ants. I used the oval tool, modified with the selection tool, cropped for the rainbow shape and was then built as a mask allow you to see the rainbow behind. The mask layer completely overlaps the rainbow color swatch. The color swatch was rotated to give the, somewhat, obscure rainbow effect… I first added each piece from the grass to the ant hill and finally the ants. I then grouped all the ants and the ant hill. I used the arrange tool to modify the order of objects putting the ant hill behind the grass and the ants on top of the grass. I played with the stacking order of the layers finally putting the folder and all its contents below the mask and it’s separate layer. This was more for organization than anything. Managing complex graphics on a single layer is difficult; I kept wiping out or erasing parts of my grass…..I haven’t figured this piece out entirely but I’m sure it will come in time. Thanks for your support…Stephanie

Cropped image

Well, now I see how Flash expands the drawing area when graphic items go off the edge of the area. Here is the project cropped in Photoshop.

Project 2 - Ginnie MacPherson

For the image, I created a main layer with the buildings, water and tree. I used grouping and merging with the punch and combine sub-categories. I also used the arrange feature frequently as well as the gradient and the alpha channel for transparency. Sometimes I grouped objects in order to arrange them above other objects.
The mask layer is used to put a pile of leaves into the garbage can. The final order of layers accomplished the illusions of things being in front and or behind each other in space as well as the ease of working with items while locking other inactive layers.
Grouping seems to be key in managing multiple elements in a single layer, so you can edit just that selection. My experience of the project is mainly adjusting to the difference between Flash and Illustrator drawing tools. The differences are in some cases an easy transition and in other kind of tricky.

Project 2-Slideshow cover page

I used grouping in several parts if this project and layers for just about everything. First I had to create the shamrock that would serve as a symbol for the background grid. I created it out of many things and then grouped them together until I was ready to union them together and make a symbol. Once the shamrock grid was created I made a new layer and positioned it behind the shamrock grid in order to show the shamrocks on a black background.
The wall in front was created with several layers. I first did a pencil drawing of the outline and realized I couldn’t fill it. So I used to the outline to put in rectangles and transform them to the shape seen. The hole in the center was made by masking and using different shapes to guide as I drew out a lot of it. Another shamrock was placed on top to create the appearance of the thickness of the wall within the center shamrock and then I went in with a brush to make it look more like that and not one just on top.
Throughout the wall process I was moving layers forward and backward and hiding them for the ease of seeing without having other things in the way. Then as I went along I would group them and lock the group folder so I wouldn’t keep selecting a line next to where I was trying to highlight.
The final order of the layers is so that obviously everything seen is seen the way it is. Oh, and at the end I created a layer and made a polygon with a customized gradient light and placed it between the wall folder and the background folder to appear as if there were a light source behind the wall.
The text was added at the end, each on different layers. After typing I broke all apart twice to make them merge shapes so I could transform them in ways that text doesn’t allow, i.e. distort and envelope. And the meaning of the text? Well, I figured it could be a cover of some sort for photos from my trip to Ireland with my boyfriend this coming November.
The recommendation for managing complex objects on a single layer is to not, and use multiple layers. Or if not, group or union them together to make it a little easier. The pitfall of using just one layer is that you have to be careful about what you’re selecting. Also you can’t hide other things when you want to focus on one object with nothing else showing. My preference of tools is still the brush tool and drawing objects versus merge shapes because they seem easy enough to use and morph.

Late Bloomer - Reineke Avery Project One

Get it?

Alright, so. The background gradient is the only primitive shape on the stage- as most of the shapes involved were irregular, that was the easiest way to go about it. The outline of the primitive shape also has the gradient, in a large sized stiple stroke. I get really cranky if my creations aren't neatly finished off, and that gave it a nice effect.

The leaves you can just barely see were done using the merged object setting and a combination of square and oval tool shapes. I drew rectangles with a custom gradient, then drew ovals right over them, deleted the ovals to create a curve on the underside of the leaf, and finally copied and pasted the leftover shape on top of itself to create the topside curve. I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with that one!

The petals of the iris are hand-drawn with the paint tool in the object setting, because I wanted to be able to move the petals around as needed to get a nice look. I filled in the petals with a custom gradient, and adjusted it using the Gradient Transform Tool. It ended up working really well for the varied colours seen on iris petals.

Finally I finished off the flower with the pencil tool in goldenrod with a large size stiple effect applied, to create an abstract stamen type shape. It also covered up a bit of the gradient paint areas that I didn't like as much!

The quote about irises was stolen from Hano No Monogatari's book The Stories Of Flowers and just happens to relate to one of my favourite cultures, that of ancient Greece. It's the same font Lazarus used on his piece, but I liked it so much I decided to use it on mine as well. :P

It was really fun learning to use the tools and I look forward to our next project!

Project One! Lazarus Avery

Man, Flash is fun, but Blogger's a beast to use! LOL - I've been trying to get this thing on here for days! Also, is it just me or is blogger REALLY hating the insertion of any file type? I exported/saved this thing in every file type I could and it just wouldn't work with Blogger! Finally I put it on Flickr and updated it.

Okay, finally got this up here, and am ready to show it around.

This project was actually an incredibly entertaining one to pull off. I think I've used every piece that we've learned, as tough as it is to actually see due to the nature of the project.

The smileys are actually all various types of shapes: Merged, which I used to create partial shapes in the background, Object Drawings, which I took off onto the paste section to fill in as I needed them, and Primative Shapes which I used for layering.

The pen tool I used for two things: The splatter affect on the right side, for one, is actually a "pen line" - just with the affect that it's very Stipled or Hatched, and with massive stroke and bounced back and forth.

I wanted the shouting by him to be very chaotic and manic, so I used the pen - hatched - to bounce all over the place. It's supposed to look exasperated and panicked.

The text, though modified, I didn't break apart due to special concerns.

Gradient Color? Only kind I use! I used a variety of gradient scales and changes in the smileys and in the guy's clothes.

The paint option is straight forward (and by far my favorite): all of the faces and free hand drawing, including the guy. The pencil is a hard tool to justify, but I did use it to emphasize the last word of the sentance.

I transformed several items here. The barrier between him and the smileys is actually a rectangle. If you look close, some of the smileys are all smooshed by the rush of the other smileys.

All in all, I believe I pulled off a fairly creative project with all the parts we learned, and can't wait to learn some more things! I wanted to use layers here, but it wasn't part of the project!

Fulmer Project #1

I have zero artistic ability and struggled with this project quite a bit! I used merge drawing for the purple on the witch hat, and object drawing for the pumpkin and part of the cat. Most of the witch hat is done with primitive shapes and the bill of the hat was modified with a Bezier curve. The corners represent object drawings, the use of Bezier curves and my personal gradient. You'll also notice the personal gradient in the sweeping touch I have at the top of my flyer, which was also done using the paint brush. I struggled with the corners but finally discovered how to copy one object and flip or rotate it to obtain a mirror image. As you can see from my scrawny and misshaped cat, I can stand to work on my pencil drawing a bit more... But, he's not horrible for the first project.

I found that while I struggled with each piece, I learned a bit more as I went through the steps. I would certainly need more time with each tool before I could tell you definitively what style I prefer but for now the object drawing seems to be the most forgiving. It's easier to fix if I mess with it too much and want to start over while the primitive shapes are very rigid/inflexible. Merge drawing was the toughest for me to figure out but I'll get the hang of it. Since I combined the pen tool and the merge object I found it was more difficult to modify the end shape so I was stuck with the purple on the hat a bit smaller than I'd like.

Stephanie Fullmer

Elizabeth Wyman Project 1

Okay, So I went about this project a little differently. I made three pictures instead of one to use all the tools I wanted. So here they are.

Flowers:

I used the pen tool to make the flower in the center of the image. I rounded out the petals and leaves using the convert anchor point tool. I made the petals all the same length and deleted any unwanted anchor points using the delete anchor point tool. I used the oval tool to make the center of the flower. Then I used the paint bucket tool to color the flower and the leaves. Using the sub-selection tool I selected only the petals of the flower and copy and pasted them to make another flower, which I turned blue. I pasted on top of that one a lighter blue flower that I then selected and transformed using the rotate option with the free transform tool. I used the line tool to create stems for the flowers and the center of the leaves. I then used the rectangle tool to make a green box at the bottom of the stage. I added and modified text using the text tool. I broke apart the text and converted it into a symbol. I then modified it using the free transform tool.

Good Night:

I created the text with the text tool. I then modified it to get the letter spacing and font styles I wanted. Then I used the oval tool to create a circle. I then right clicked on the stage and changed the background color in properties to black. I selected the circle and filled it with a gradient with the paint bucket tool. I then adjusted the gradient to the colors and focal point I wanted with the gradient transform tool. I then broke apart my text twice and filled it with a custom gradient as well using the color palette and paint bucket tool. I converted the text to a symbol so that it would appear in front of the circle or moon.

Abstract:
I used the paint tool, pencil tool, rectangle, oval, primitive rectangle, and primitive oval tool. The merge drawing is useful for creating more complex shapes without changing anchor points. The object drawing is easy to manipulate and seems to lay on top of other objects. The primitive shape tool is easy to change using the anchor points. I used all kinds of different setting on the paint and pencil tool to create my images. I changed the stroke and scale as well as the smoothing.

Brianna Barcus - Project 1

Like Nathaniel I have been really sick lately, and been taking lots of cold medicine to get better. I am usually a really creative person but this project, ( with me being sick) really gave me a few headaches.
I used all of the tools we were supposed to use. The merge objects were real tricky to work with. I used object drawing for the buildings and the windows. I also changed and personalized the gradients on each building to make them unique. I used primitive shapes to make the stars in the sky and the headlights on the bridge. I used the pencil tool to make some of the fireworks.
I have to say the pen tool is my greatest enemy I worked the longest trying to get it to work for the bridge. I have never had good luck with the pen tool. I modified the text by changing it's color, size, and breaking it apart. Definitely a tricky project. Would have been easier to do if I hadn't been sick.

Ginnie MacPherson Project 1

Here is my first project. The process I took was to first sketch out the composition of what I wanted to create, then think about the color palette. I went with a few from the Kuler extention.
Most of the robot is drawn using the pen tool and making adjustments using besiér curves with the pen tool, transforming, and the direct selection tool.The smoke is on a layer behind the robot. I used merge drawing on some of the clouds. The merge tool is a tough one - it's not fun having them overlap and take chunks out of each other. Hopefully down the road it will make sense why that is useful. For the smoke coming from the robot's head, I drew several primitive circles, then selected them all and modify>join if remembering right.
The gradients were fun to work with in getting the shiny metal effect with reflective orange color. The alpha percentage is useful - making parts of the gradient transparent. I used the direct selection tool to scale, rotate and change the size of a gradient within the shapes.I didn't use the pencil tool very much, but put a few squiggly reflection lines on the robot's arms to further the chrome/metal idea. The alpha percentage on those is scaled back also.Modified text didn't figure in this very much either in the end. I had "red alert" large and repeated around at a few different sizes, but decided just the text on the robot body by the buttons was best.

Project 1- Christian Boneta

Created this image utilizing the gradient shaping and adjustment tools alot. I also utilized a few different colors, also utilized Kuler to get a better understanding of matching color patterns based on the themes they have there.
The boat was 3 rectangles shaped into the form with the free transformtool, utilized the pen to tool to draw the mast and the rope holding the sails/reshaped rectangles
The sky was made using a rectangle and the sun/circle was merged into it.
The water was same as the sky utilized different custom colors for it
Utilized a primitive circle to make the form in the bow of the ship
used the pen tool and the paintbrush for the seagulls
and for the signature, I used Lithos Pro for the custom text

The tools i used the most was the free transform and the gradient transform tools they allow you to create all kinds of shapes out of existing shapes, and the brush was a very nice tool to have also. The biggest problem I had was figuring out what to draw.

Daniel Dehaze - Project 1

Here is one of the images that I made. I just used the rectangle tool to make the solid black background. Then I used the spray can tool to make the stars with random sampling turned on. Next was the sun which was an oval with a gradient for the color. I made the orbits of the planets next, which were ovals that I rotated and skewed. Then I made the rest of the planets. The blue and red one were gradients as well, and the brown one is the only primitive object in this drawing and a solid color. I made the rocket next with a rectangle and pencil, and then the paint brush for the flames.

I think the tool that I enjoyed the most was the paint brush after I plugged my Wacom tablet into my computer. I used it a lot in the drawing below and pretty much the paintbrush most of the drawing. I mainly use it in Photoshop with my photos, but thought I would try something new. I am not the best drawer I am finding out. :)

Is it obvious that I'm a wine lover? I really struggled with what to create for this project because it took me forever to figure out how to create something other than a blob with the pen tool. Once I figured out the pen tool I used it to create the bottle and I then used the fill tool to fill it with a wine color. The wine label is an object drawing and the table behind everything is my merge drawing. I need to work with the merge drawing tool a little more to get really comfortable with it to figure out when it will and won't interact with everything else I've created. I used the line tool to create most of the glasses, the base of the glasses were object drawing. I used the primitive oval to create the grapes. Creating the leaves gave me the chance to use the free transform tool which I also used to create the vines. The brush tool was used to create the little vines around the leaves. The stem of the grapes was created with the pencil tool. For both the pencil and the brush tool I used very thin line settings and I wanted the vines to match the stem so I used the eyedropper tool to make sure they matched perfectly. Both the wine label and the glasses have a gradient. I found the subselect tool very helpful in fixing the shape of the wine bottle.

Through the course of creating this project I've learned that I really prefer to use object drawing mode for almost anything that requires me to make a shape. It's very easy to edit and I feel like it gives me more control. The primitive tool is great when there isn't a lot of editing needed, like creating a circle to look like a grape. It's pretty basic. As for merge drawing, it's really interesting the things you can do with this tool but I didn't really find a good use for it in this project. I really need to apply it to layers so that I can better control what it does and doesn't interact with. It's been frustrating and fun figuring this out. I think I'll celebrate completing my 1st project with a delicious glass of wine tonight. Cheers!

Project 1 - Vincent Phan

By choosing to make an illustration of a fish in Flash, I probably made things really challenging for me with this project, since I'm required to create different types of shapes. Fortunately, I still managed to get the job done.
The body of the fish was created with object drawing type, the bubbles with merge drawing type (and gradient effect also), and the rear fin with primitive drawing. I used the pen tool with additional anchors and bezier curves to create the top fin. The mouth of the fish was made by simply using the pencil to create the outline, and afterward the paint bucket to fill in the outline.
I'd prefer to use the object drawing style tools, because I find them to be easier to deal with, haha.

Oops! I didn't know it would show up outside the white area! Well to begin with, it was very hard for me to come up with what to create, but I started out just making one object at a time. First I started out with a primitive oval shape to make the sun and used pencil for the rays. Next I used object drawing to make my blue background. Then I used merge drawing to make a small red balloon in the back left and used the pencil tool to draw the string. After, I used the pen to make Bezier curves on the clouds to them to look "cloudy" by creating anchor points and modified them to curve. Next, I needed a gradient shape so I decided to make a bouncy ball flying through the air with gradient colors. I started painting the background with the paint tool and used the paint fills, which helped alot for filling in the mountains and ground. This was helpful because I could go over lines and objects already created with the paint brush and it would disappear after letting go of the mouse. I used the pencil to make the birds' wings and the paint brush for the bodies. I personally find that using the paint brush tool is better than the pencil because it has alot more options and styles to choose from, such as the different brush shapes and sizes. Since I had to transform two objects I picked the balloon and the bouncy ball, and skewed both of them and flipped them as well. Overall this picture was hard to create because it was difficult to pick the tools to create a "put-together" picture.

Let me just say that I have been sick and taking large amounts of cough medicine. I am not a very artistic person, as far as drawing stuff goes.

What I did is basically just went down the checklist of things I needed to put on the page. As I get more familiar I think I will get more creative.

The one thing I am proud of is the eyes in the middle. I used object drawing for the outside and then did a gradiant for that actual eyeball then used the transform to make it look like he was choosing the vacation on the left.

For the eyebrows I did the pen tool and did some Bezier curves. So, like I said as we learn more (and I am not sick) I hope that I will be able to do some of the things that I have seen in the blog.

Project 1 called DUST

I agree with Bulma that Flash seems tricky after being so familiar with Photoshop. W hat was the hardest for me was merge-shapes versus object drawing, though in the end I mostly stuck with object drawing because it didn’t keep hiding everything behind the merge object. At one point I decided I was just going to use layers as the objects and shapes were beginning to frustrate me. When I searched for the layers window as I would do in Photoshop, I couldn’t even find it. So the final outcome still remains as one layer. I think merge objects would be great for creating logos or even objects that are animated and need to be disassembled or pieced together on video. Object drawing was great for creating shapes that touch other shapes as in the cactus in my project. The dog/deer glyph was created with the pen tool. At first I thought it would be easier to just use the brush but after trying each out the pen tool was by far superior. To begin I just did a square resemblance of the shape I wanted, then I went in and used the move tool (v) and the carat tool (c) using the bevier handles to push the lines around and make it curved where once was square.

I used the pencil tool on its default setting to create the outline of the cactus' shadow, then filled it in with a super low alpha setting on the brush after eye dropping (i) the color of the "ground" so the shadow would fade into the side. I LOVE the brush tool. I also used it in the cactus lines and on the text. I, by far, preferred the brush tool over the pencil tool. I think I even prefer the pen tool above the pencil. Though I used the pencil tool in my project in parts, including some of the background mountains, I have yet to learn or experience a time when the pen tool and brush are less useful than the pencil. Admittedly, my experience in Flash resides only in the length of this class so far. I think if I were to go back and try to recreate the same image again from scratch, I’d learn new ways and strategies and most likely just as much as I did the first time around.

Happy Halloween! Luciana Alberto's first project

I notice flash is a very tricky program to work with, when you are used to photoshop. For the pumpkin I used oval primitives and object drawing , used kuhler for color pallets and filled with a radial fill. I started with a big oval and used the transform tool to make how big I wanted then copy and paste the others and used more oval primitive and played with the start angle, end angle and inner radius.
I choose the bezier curves to create the leafs and filled with gradient color and modified with free transform to create different leafs
For the moon effect I used a oval shape, reduced the alpha and clicked in gradient slide to get the right effect.
I added the shadow by using the shadow tool with simbols in the pumpkin!
My favorite tool was the primitive shapes with the gradiente tool, I had more control over the object in this project by using these tools.

Brian J's Project 1

I started with a photo of an actual Picasso Triggerfish that I found on the web. I took that photo and dragged it onto the Flash stage as a layer. Then I added a new layer for my drawing. I did a really rough trace of the fish shape using the pen tool over the imported photo to give me the shape of the fish, then adjusted it later using the subselection tool and pencil tool to fine tune it. I experimented with that various drawing modes using the paint brush to color the body of the fish. I mainly used the merge drawing mode, because I wanted to be able to paint over things, and give it an overall "painterly" look, although I experimented with the others in various places. I added a couple of shape primitives for the eye, and I framed it using another primitive. For the water, seaweed, and ground I used the paintbrush using a combination of painting in normal mode, and painting behind. Then of course I used the text tool with a custom gradient for the title. Just for kicks I did the text in its own layer, so that I could do some animation of it separately if I wanted to later.

I found that the "tracing" technique worked really well, and gave me a quick and accurate shape to work from. I also enjoyed using the brush tool in merge drawing mode for a painterly effect. I cranked up the smoothness value of my brush so that I could be a bit "sloppy" but still have it look good. The paint behind mode is a very new concept to me, but I found it to be very useful. You just need to plan ahead a bit.

First Project

I know this is a little early, but I'm in the spirit. Happy Halloween! Anyway, I created my first project today. I used alot of different tools and shapes in the development of this project. I used primitive drawing on the background mostly, which I prefer to do, for the exception of the pumpkins hat with the brim. I used object drawing on the ghost, the pumpkin, and the moon.
Using the Bezier curve, I used this on the yellow eyes. I started at one point, then selected a second point from a distance curving the line to what I needed, then came back to the original point curving the line the way I wanted. Filled the shape in yellow, copied, pasted the same image, and flipped it horizontally to get the other eye. For the iris's I did the same thing but instead of three points, I did it in two points.
For the pencil, I used it to write 'Trick or Treat!' on the patio. The paint brush, I used some detail work using different elements of the brush on the grass,(gradiant radial green to dark purple) bush leaves around the eyes, stars and moon. I also used a modified gradiant on the text lettering.
In all, I prefer using the paint brush, because I think I can do many things with it to detail things.

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