midterm - Kara

Super Pea Crashes - click title to view.

My Midterm! Turn it up.

The ultimate animation my sons have been waiting for…. Super P Crashes into a wall. First I did a simple storyboard. This helped me to keep it straight in my head and not get too sidetracked. Here is my process.

1. Created the background bydrawing a grey marquee and using the pen tool to draw the lines in the building and a rectangle for the shape. I put those to elements in a folder and expanded a key frame to include them in the whole animation.

2. Created a motion tween from frames 1-30 for the word “Super” used the properties panel to make the word rotate 5 times.

3. Created a motion tween for the word “Pea” starting at frame 30 and going through frame 60.

4. I had to expand a keyframe with just the word “super” no tween through frame 60.

5. I made 5 frames of just the building and then started my next scene..

6. I created a shape tween from frames 82-115 for the starburst so it would appear to get bigger. I then extended a new keyframe with no tween through frame 134. (I also made a symbol out of the starburst before I realized it could not be a symbol, I had to use the command break apart.)

7. Also from frame 115-134 I inserted the word “crashes” with the type tool, then squished it using a frame by frame animation.

8. I opened up my project 3 project so that I could have some symbols available from that library. I opened up the library clicked on “Pin” and then selected my midterm project with blank scene at frame 135. I inserted super Pea and created a motion tween making him fly right next to te building, almost touching it. *I was going to try to make him a shape tween so he could squish when he hit the building, but then I got a better idea. I made the following layers and brought in the individual elements of super p one at a time. The layers were pant, head, cape, and arm. I dragged them in and resized them to match my whole super pea then created motion tweens for each one. The motion tweens all went forward, toward the building, then fell to the ground.

9. I played it for my kids and they laughed. They made sound effects while they were watching it. I got the idea to record their sounds in garage band and try to import the file. I tried so hard, my buddy got on and tried, we couldn’t figure it out. But I did find some sound effects that come with flash. They are under window>common libraries>sound. You find the sound you want and drag it on the stage.

10. Every element on the stage has a layer. I find it to be much easier that way. Also, I am learning photoshop right now to so it is a lot easier to understand.

11. My new symbols are starburst, super, pea, in, to a, wall.

12. Lastly, I wanted to include a nested motion tween. So I redrew the building with shapes only.(it wasn’t letting me convert it to a symbol because I used the pen tool for the linesat first)The first motion was for it to scale and move when super pea hit it. The nested motion was for it to grow. I discovered when I made the nested motion, that I had to extend it’s timeline the whole length of the movie.