Midterm-Judith Espino

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For my Midterm project I decided to stay with the ocean theme as the last project. I wanted to make this animation a little more interactive where all the elements fit together.

I created most shapes using the pen tool (waves, fish, mountains) and the pencil tool (birds, ocean floor, cave) and cleaned up the shapes with the Bezier curves. I used the object drawing tool and primitive tools to add a few details like the eyes.

All my symbols, the blue fish, the birds, the wave, the green plant, the eyes in the cave, and the background images are new except for the red fish. I incorporated the red fish into the project but made a few changes. I wanted the fish to be more interactive so I nested a second image of the fish, the front view within the symbol.

Frame-by-Frame Animation: I created two eyes inside the cave that blink during the animation.

Shape Tween: I created a plant at the bottom of the ocean that transforms into a blue fish.

Classic Tween: The waves that move back and forth.

Motion Tween 1: The blue fish that jumps in and out of the water. I used the motion editor to transform the size of the fish to start big and get smaller as it jumps in the water. I added the Simple(Slow) Ease option to make the animation slower in the beginning.

Motion Tween 2: The birds that fly from the mountain across the water. For the birds I also used a nested symbol to create the flapping of the wings. I added the Swoosh Motion preset to make the birds appear to be flying from far in the mountains to the foreground. The only modification to the preset was to make it smaller so it would fit inside the stage.

Nested Motion Tween: I created the big wave that moves across the page. I applied 3 other nested images of the wave within the symbol to create the movement of the big wave as it get smaller and disappears.