Midterm Project - Noel Javier

The first thing I did was create all the veggies. I used various techniques, mostly using a shape tool then editing with the direct selection tool by adjusting the bezier curves. I saved these into my library as symbols.

Next, I followed the Motion Tween 2 video and created a nested tween for the blue guys to “walk” while moving across the screen. This was really interesting and hard at first but then did it again for the 2nd guy. The 2nd time was a lot easier. I used another frame on top of the “still” guy to show him open his mouth towards the end when the left blue guy thinks of a veggie pie and the right blue guy opens his mouth. This was the simplest way I could think of animating another expression.

I mainly used motion tweens for the fading and text at the end. The “fly in bottom” motion preset for the veggies were used for the pop ups. I adjusted these slightly in motion editor but not much.

I would say the hardest thing would be the timing of the fade ins and outs. It took me a long time adjusting the frames because Flash doesn’t give you a quick way to place more frames and take out frames in between key frames. This part can get very frustrating. Also I find it difficult to select parts of the frames. Sometimes it drags the whole thing, sometimes it drags into more frames. I waste a lot of time accidentally dragging the wrong way.