Adobe Flash Course

I went on an Adobe Flash Course for 2 days and i learnt a heck of a lot of stuff that i definately couldn't have taught myself... It was very thorough and quite intense but luckily i managed to come out the other end with a shiny new certificate and a complementary Flash "Classroom In A Book" err book.

Below is some evidence i actually went :)... Also, there are some pictures of the work i did, unfortunately the don't move or anything since i stupidly forgot to copy the base files over.. and i'm not a tech pro so i have no idea how to get flash imagery on my blog. SO i hope these still images will suffice. 2 exercises are missing as the files didn't copy properly :(

The Flash Manual and evidence of note-taking :P

My certificate

The very first exercise. Intro to layers, and how to use the timeline.

Learning how to use drawing tools, modifying colours and shapes, using stamps, creating and editing text.

Learning how to use motion paths and animating layers.

Creating a moving bone structures, adding spring and constrictions.

Creating a motion movie poster. Learning about alpha transparencies, blurring, movie clips, motion tweens, 3D rotation and using motion editor with the timeline.

More bone structure and learning about authortime or runtime.

Creating websites, buttons with up, down, over and hit imagery, text editing and action scripting.

Adding video to websites and converting files using Adobe Media Convertor.

Photoshop Montage Homework

Photoshop file for web. (jpeg)

Starting the animating...

Okay i wanted to upload my animatic before the following video, but it's just not playing ball with the uploading milarky... i'll try to get it up another time..

This is just a simple playblast of the actual sequence without the camera angles just to show how i got things working and how everything linked together.. im sorry the video isnt better quality!! it looks better in the actual quicktime video (i hope!)

Further detail

Well i found out we have an extra week than i thought for the project so i spent some time making the kitchen more "kitcheney"

so i made these:

stove

fridge

and this is what they looked like put into the room

Set... so far

i'm trying to get the set done today...

muhhh...

it's definately taking a while, and with my perfectionist nature, i keep having the urge to make little things to decorate the kitchen with...

i play way too much Sims...

actually... looking at the print screen, the decorative border on the wall looks a bit too thick and high up... let's change that..

...better???

..and now with a sink! coz it looked a bit bare..

now to add in my other objects...

can you see how it's going to work? ^_^ (yep- vair vair simple)

makes me think... why so much work for a pile of very unrealistic looking objects eh?!! EHH?!!

New to texturing...

I thought i'd try and have a stab at some texturing today... it's a little tricky and since i'm still very new at this, all my objects still look a bit fake... but yeah, im happy with them and i think they get the job done..

im leaving the recipe books and the boxes til last as they need actual covers on them so they might take a little longer to do

Cuppy Cake

Coz it wouldn't be my animation without it...

no cherry since that's where it's going to go at the end of my animation :)