My Final Animation Project - The French Revolution

                    The last project given to us in class was the project where we make a video on Adobe Flash CS6 about anything we wanted to. The subject I chose was the French Revolution. I chose this because I had an English project due about this topic so I chose to kill two birds with one stone and do one for both classes. I worked on this project with Muneeb, Tara, and Timothy because we were all in the same English class. Our teachers gave us permission and we were good to go. The main goal of this animation is to inform our audience about the French Revolution. This was also our learning reflection on this project. I learned alot & it wasn't easy but we did it. I loved the idea of working with my friends on this because it would be more fun and also easier. Working as a team we each did different things for our animation. For example we all did our own text for informing, we did scene selection, added music, and also inserted buttons. The biggest problem we confronted was merging everything. When we each brought our work to one computer, some of our work had been gone or missing. I even had to redo all my text at one point because my layers didn't show up. It was a lot of work and if we could have, we would have made some visual arrangements to it such as different colors, and maybe doing different effects such as fading, and other tweaks.

                  

My Public Awareness Advertisement

                   For the past week or so, Mrs. Butera gave us a public awareness assignment to complete. The purpose was to create an ad for everyone to see about a certain topic. I worked with Muneeb Rana for this assignment. Me and him chose to do education as our topic. I did half, he did half. Then after we both completed our portion of work, we merged the work together & added the final touches. We faced problems while doing this because it was confusing to put the button & fade out and also which layer to put it on. Music was also a big barrier because it was tough getting it to stop where I wanted it to and etc. Overall it was a good experience because I worked with my friend. I would much rather have an assignment done together rather than work on it alone so I did enjoy it. 

Life-Like Running Stick Figure 4/8/14

                     My last animation assignment given to me in class was to create a life-like running stick figure in Flash CS6. We did this by first drawing a background using the pencil tool then we used different onion skins to draw the characters in each key-frame in order to make the character look like it's moving in a realistic way. I did confront some difficulties such as struggling to make it look realistic. For me to do that I would have to draw the character in different positions in each key-frame such as doing movement in arms & legs. Overall I did learn a lot as in how to create a moving background & position the characters.

Learning Flash Animation 4/3/14

               As we finished up Windows Live Movie Maker, we moved on to another software called Flash CS6. I learned many things throughout my experience of using this software throughout the past days. We were given assignments to complete with this. I found out how to do different things for instance, make a figure move and make an object move on a background. Some assignments we had to do included to move a face using different layers, we made a moving stick figure, and also did an object moving across a background which is shown below. I liked the last one because it's a good skill to know & I liked using the tools to create layers, put in motion tweens and position where everything would be which leads to the final product. It was fun and I enjoyed doing it. By doing these things you learn to enjoy the software and have fun with it because it's interesting to know what we can do with it.

Moving Object in Background ^ 

Pivot In Windows Live Movie Maker 3/13/14

            As I finished my free run animation on Pivot, I got another new assignment to import that into a movie. In class I'm using a Windows PC computer so the software we used was Windows Live Movie Maker. There was some obstacles while creating it. First of all, I had to upload it to Windows Live Movie Maker then came along the title slide, credits slide, different music, & also sound effects. The hardest part of this was the sound effects because you had to focus on timing. You had to first save it as a movie then drag it back into the software and add it. It was complicated unlike the rest of what I had to do. Overall it was really fun because I got to create my own movie. I believe it came out really good too. It gave me an opportunity to show what I can do.

Pivot Animation 2/27/14

        In the first marking period of the 2nd semester we were assigned to do a project. The theme was free running. For this project we used Pivot Animator to do pivot animations. Throughout my experiences with this I have learned many new things. For instance, I learned how to make stick figures and also how to do different types of movements. It was fun but also frustrating because it took a lot of effort and patience doing each movement. One of my major challenges I faced was making everything look realistic & also my timing. Even though people run, jump, climb or do all these other movements on a daily basis they never have think of how to do it & with me it was hard because I had to create the movements and specify each one realistically. The skill using Pivot could be used if I were to become someone who was developing a game or cartoon. After all the hard work & patience I still enjoyed doing this pivot animation.