Midterm Elizabeth Wyman

First I drew all of my objects and arranged them on different layers. I then created folders to keep them straight. Some symbols like the trees I converted to symbols so that I would not have to draw them multiple times. I also made the bunny a symbol so that I could use a motion tween. The sky, star, train, and train wheel were all classic tweens of one sort or another.

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

Midterm - Brian Jepperson

After roughing out the storyboards, I created movie symbols from my previous three projects and put those onto the stage. The glass on the title page is a classic tween with a motion guide. The text is just frame by frame animation.

The second part to this video is a face where I do some expressions by using shape tweening. I have the mouth on its own layer. I had to do that because it was doing some odd things before I did that. The mouth was merging into the hair and ears and other wierdness.

The last part of the video is just a ball bouncing along some moving and stationary platforms. I used a motion tween for the ball, and a classic tween for the platform. I did some tweaking in the motion editor. It can definitely use more, but it will do for now.

Midterm Project ~ Jeffrey Schachtsick

To the left is just a sample frame of my project. I'm calling it UFO_visit. I felt like making this a little entertaining. The full video is on the PCC server for viewing. Anyway, to create this project I started out by creating a couple symbols: a cow, UFO, wine barrel, and wine building using various tools of primitive, objective drawing, etc. I thought it would be easier to do it this way so I wouldn't have to worry about accidentally messing up one of the objects. In Multi-layering, I found it really handy to put each layer(symbol) into a directory, so I could easily move and adjust the layers around to what I wanted to do. The light ray from the UFO was tricky and I figured out that needed to create to light beam object layers because the light beam goes in different direction and at different times. Lastly, for the UFO, I really tested the tweening ability by using many different functions, such as using motion guides and size adjusting. For the cow and wine barrel, I used spinning motions and movement.
This is fun project, and I wish I had more time to work on it to give more details.

Midterm - Vincent Phan

My project takes place in outer space, involving a moon revolving around a planet, a UFO floating around, and a shooting star.

The planet and moon were made with simple merge and object drawing, and the moon was converted to a symbol. I applied classic tween and a motion guide to the moon so that it revolves around the planet. I also tried adding perspective to the moon by enlarging it when 'in front' and slowing the speed down as well was shrinking the object to make it seem like its getting further away.

The UFO was made with bezier curves and gradient coloring, and was converted to a symbol. I had the UFO float around the top with frame-by-frame animation

I made a small shooting star from an object drawing converted to symbol and added a tween for it to pass by for a few frames.

Stars were added to the background too, but I didn't include them to the storyboard.

Mid-term Ginnie MacPherson

Here is my mid-term project - early because my free CS4 version runs out tomorrow and I seem to be very busy in the next 5 days or so until the deadline.
The main layers are the water, land, trees, tree foliage and boat. Within each layer there are many grouped or merged objects drawn in object drawing mode.. The movie consists of repeating many shapes (water layers, trees) and moving them along from right to left as classic tweens. I created a single shape for the water variation and modified it in the properties panel after dragging the symbol back in from the library.
I drew the boat with parasol in Illustrator with pen tool and bezier curves and imported it as a single layer. To get the boat to drift downstream in a wavy motion, I used a curved motion guide.
The bouncing ball that follows the boat close to shore uses a motion tween. The ball is a primitive shape. For creating a new symbol with the one I made, the modified tint and alpha channel as well as transform scale on the single water ripple symbol will do.

Project 3 Ginnie MacPherson

Here is a very late project 3. I completed this project by importing an image from Illustrator (the water drops) and Photoshop (the hose). I put each water drop on it's own layer to control the starting and ending position. I created the rotating, bouncing star and the motion-guide water drop by referring to the book. That's really about it. . .