Thursday, September 18, 2008
Flash + Me = Awesome
For the last 2 days it's been pretty hectic since I've been absorbing all the stuff Chiarelli has been teaching. We learned about the basics of animation and what frames are all about. Standard stuff for me, but I'm glad we got into tweening. Motion tweening, which uses symbols, text, or groups is the stuff I've already knew about for quite a while, but shape tweening on the other hand... wow. I've never learned about shape tweening, I never even knew how it worked, and how to do it, but now I do. It's some pretty easy stuff to grasp once you get the hang of it, but I'm sure it'll be very useful for upcoming projects, and out-of-class things.
We also did a little test with shape tweening. We made a snowboard using different shapes, and then shape tweened it so it converted into a letter. It may have been simple to make, but it looked pretty cool considering how little we've learned about shape tweening.
Today we got into motion guides and layer masks. It's pretty cool, and stuff I've never got into before, or even tested. Motion guides use a path that you make, and allow a symbol to run off of it, to wherever you want it to go. Layer masks, on the other hand, are something I've used on Photoshop, but today it seemed like an almost totally different thing in execution. The outcome may have been the same, but to perform it was another story. However, I got the grip of it, and I'm happy I did.
This unit, so far, is awesome and has exceeded all my expectations. Looks like I'll have lots more fun in the weeks to come.
Posted by Chris Kaminski at 8:25 PM