Darby Hasbrouck: Midterm

When Stephanie says that she was “tasked” with building a simple eCard to sell to our clients, it was really me that volunteered both of us. So my midterm project also ended up being holiday themed.

When I sat down and started to storyboard I decided to make the graphics that I wanted to use and lay them out according at the different major transition points. I then took screen shots of each of these points which I used as visuals in a PPT file to represent the story board. Then I went back to the movie and completed the animation between the transition points.

I created the snowman with the drawing tools in flash as well as the night-sky, snow and moon. The tree and the sign were simple graphics that I imported into my library. Once I figured out where I wanted everything I adjusted the layers accordingly. I grouped a lot of symbols together to create my snowman and made sure all of the necessary layers were in the same folder. Probably the trickiest part to the snowman was using the lovely Bezier curves to get the scarf just right.

This project used both classic tweens and motion tweens. The classic tween was used to give the landscape a zooming in effect and the motion tween was used to bring the snowman and text on screen.

This was a fun but time consuming project!