Saturday, February 27, 2010

Project 4 - Maurice Frank

Please click image to play movie.

Everything seemed to work pretty well in this project. Everything except getting the IK elements to do as I wanted. Initially, I was able to control the character's movement pretty well. He bends, his eyes shift (I know that isn't IK), he raises his arms and clicks his heels together. I wanted him to jump as his heels clicked but it would not work. The hair, which is my IK shape, and eyes wouldn't move in sync with the body (it worked just fine when he bends). In the end I gave up on the jump and added more movements with the hands, arms, and legs.

The image is of St. Louis Cemetery #1, in which I have spent much time. I used two audio clips. One is of a baseball being hit. I used it when the character's heels slap together. The other clip plays throughout the movie. It is a reggae version of Pink Floyd's Brain Damage. I converted the .aif (with X Audio Compression Tool) to an .mp3 and then trimmed (with mp3 Trimmer) the section I needed from the complete song before importing it into Flash.

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