Midterm - Sean Walden

~ Most of the work in this project for me, was just creating nice looking symbols to use in my animation. There were a couple of items (Start menu, Desktop Background, and Desktop Icons) that were just copied, pasted, and masked but the majority of my symbols were created from scratch. For ease of animation purposes, and because my animation was fairly straightforward and simple, most everything on my stage was converted to symbols.

~ I separately masked off the border of the computer screen, so that I could place the animated onscreen images in the layer beneath. Most of the animations with the cursor and the message boxes were done with simple classic tweens, and manipulating the alpha or brightness settings of the symbol. I also changed the tint of the power button when the screen turns on and powers down.

~ Once the computer starts to malfunction due to the virus, a lot of my animations became shape tweens like the white shape that appears when the computer powers down, and with so many things going on toward the end of my animation, the timeline was quickly becoming very complicated. Also, much of the screens flickering, as well as the different images popping up on the screen, was done with simple frame by frame animation. I have attached a link to my animation at the bottom of this post.

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