Midterm P. Peterson

The palm tree leaves are made with bezier curves. All others are shapes or objects besides the bird which I just used the pen tool for. The sun is actually rotating with its axis below the bottom of the page. The ocean that looks like it reflects the sun is a long rectangle that moves along a line to give the imression that the suns actually doing it. Theres a separate layer behind the ocean rectangle that makes the waves. I originally just had that but it was too "flashy" and choppy and didnt reflect the suns position at all. The bird is actually 3 separate symbols that were created using a motion tween on 3 layers. To make it advance/ "fly" forward I did a simple frame by frame animation using chucks of frames and repositioning each as I wanted the bird to appear to move through time. The larger palm tree also has a few classic animations applied to it throughout the movie.