Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Flash Assignment (My first!)
I'm pretty happy right now. I worked really hard for the last few days, and made my first little flash assignment. The thing I'm most proud of in the flash is how fluently the legs are animated, which is pretty good considering it's my first frame-by-frame animation test (on the legs at least). Unfortunately, I accidently forgot to add the pedals, which I had in the beginning, but deleted mid-way through without realizing. I wish that when you made something a movie clip the layers are still useable. Obviously that isn't possible in CS3.
I would love to show my little assignment at best quality, but, due to a lack of any good image hosters, and they're evil minds bent on having me pay money to upload swf files, I could not upload the movie to it's fullest quality. Just by watching it, I can see slow down, and the music doesn't entirely go to the end of the clip. Hopefully next time I do a Flash assignment, I'll be able to get over those boundaries and host it up here. For now, I only have a link to demonstrate my work, which just can't show it for what it truely is.
http://imgboot.com/images/Nit3mare/bikerack.swfWe learned about some new stuff for the past couple days-- using buttons and how to do some code in action scripting. I've never even touched this side of Flash, so I'm glad we got into it (all I've ever fiddled around with is frames and symbols prior to this unit). We also got some info about our new assignment, which is a gumball machine. We're required to have an intro, which introduces the little game, a menu, and a button that makes at least 4 gumballs come out of the machine. I'm pretty excited.
Anyways, until next time. Hopefully I'll have an update on my assignment!
Posted by Chris Kaminski at 8:43 PM