Midterm_Fullmer

Midterm_Fullmer

This was a fun project…very hard and time consuming but fun. I was tasked with building this project in such a manner that one of our developers could take it and slightly modify, building it into an e-holiday card. We sell these to our customers over the October-November time frame and the VP of Production thought it would be a good time to develop a couple more templates….
The storyboard that accompanies this project was a simple animation with once character, the old man, who is hit with a snowball and nearly dumps his packages. The snow ball fell to his feet and a snowy file would end up at his feet. He rights himself and is “Good to Go”. After building that much I realized that it was boring and the other developers would have a tough time using it as a template so I added the kids having a snowball fight. The snowball fight gave more basis for the rouge snowball that ends up hitting the guy holding the packages.
To get to the meat of it, the storyboard was a hand sketch which I scanned and emailed to myself as a pdf. My man, alone, is quite a few layers as is the stack of package. This was necessary in order to accomplish the frame by frame animation of the packages getting tussled then ending up back in their stack. I have all of #3 covered in the kids having the snowball fight with bevier curves for nearly every body part along with primitive, merged and object drawings. The snowballs were made with the oval tool and the snow on the ground was shaped with Bezier curves.
I must have close about 121 symbols in my library, some new and some recycled and others are duplicates. I was afraid to delete anything for fear I’d mess up my project. Some things I didn’t end up using but I figure they’ll just be available for another project.
There are a couple frame by frame animations. You’ve got the man with the packages, the snowball fight and the boy making a snowball (the 2nd & 3rd were converted to movie clips).
The tweens are used for the flying snowball, the snow and the snowball fight. There’s a motion guide for the snowball which you should be able to see in the attached image.
Oh and the snowflakes are movie clips that rotate while they fall and this was the toughest part….they kept falling from the middle of the stage and only to the right hand side. I’m still not sure I can replicate the fix as I had help from a developer for this since it gave me such a problem. I could get them to work just fine if they were on a stage by themselves but as soon as I put them in with everything else they seemed to “brake”. I purposely left one attempt at a fix in my layers of the FLA just in case you wanted to see my thought process…..those layers are hidden so they don’t show up in the finished movie.
When we convert this to an e-holiday card we’ll insert the clients logo and add a music track!
Stephanie