Starting the Animation

This was quite a confusing process as I wasn't that familiar with how Flash worked. We had tutorials on certain things like motion tween and action script, but we were given all the illustrations and action script wording we needed at those tutorials, so actually coming up with our own work to edit was a different matter. I felt a little limited in what I could do. I had to be persistent with my idea and push my skills in Flash. Motivation was the key to learning Flash and I don't think I could have done this if I hadn't put the time and effort into discovering the software myself.

For my 4 stories, I wanted to use a hand-drawn illustrative style to portray a photograph of the event. This change in style within the animation was meant to clarify the idea of being in the studio and the showing of a photograph. I found with the transitions I included, everything had to be separated into layers and the timing had to be perfect; which was a very difficult task when my knowledge of Flash was minimal.

I did enjoy creating vectors in Illustrator and importing them into Flash for editing because I felt the look and accuracy of my images to portray each of the objects worked well to get the message across clearly. This did take a considerable amount of time. Well worth it though.