Project 3 Kara

The idea for this project came from my sons. They have a character they like to draw named “Sopr P.” We worked together to draw out the character. Rethinking layers, I separated every part of his body on separate layers. Most objects are merge drawing objects. I used squares and rectangles and the brush tool. I then drew the background. I used a blue rectangle for the sky and square with envelope transform for the water. The clouds came next. They are a bunch of merge circles. I converted the cloud to a symbol as well. Then I started on the tweens. I based them on what Patty wanted from the project. My sons wanted super p to fly in to a wall but I am trying to keep it simple so I can get started on the midterm.

I used a motion tween to make super p fly across the stage. Halfway through I made him rotate because that is the only one that made sense. I also added easing to his flight path. I applied the shape tween to the cloud in the background. You can see that it gets smaller. I added motion presets for super p’s fly in. I adjusted the alpha on this because I didn’t want him transparent. I added the drip as a second motion tween. I used the motion editor to make it fade out toward the bottom of the screen. Well I was going to but couldn’t.It kept changing the layer super p was on.

The problem with the motion preset on super p was, I couldn’t get him to fly out of the screen. I had to add the classic tween now…I attempted the wall. It just moves up the side of the stage. The tutorial on Motion tweening was my favorite. It seems like the most simple and useful type of tween. It simplified what we have been doing so far.