Tuesday 14 December 2010

flash website


The first step for creating a flash website is to open the action script 2.0 select the rectangle shape and draw on the stage. After that make four layers and name them action, buttons, content and background. After this make key frames at 10, 20, 30 and at 40. On the buttons layer remove all frames. On the background layer create the button name in-between the layer frames.


The second part is to delete all the frames in the buttons layer. Once this is done you can make the layout of the other pages and change the colours. To do this just copy the background then edit and paste in place on each of the layers. Once you have done this select a different colour for each of these backgrounds.





Wednesday 8 December 2010

Evaluation

Evaluation

For this unit I was asked to produce an interactive comic using adobe flash. My original ideas for the comic was to have a fight sequence between two characters I created on paper, I also made a story board and choreography for the comic. But shortly after I had to get rid of the idea because it was very time consuming. My new idea was from a short video that I made in the summer. It is a fight scene between me and a friend of mine.

I made the comic by taking print screens of the scenes that I want to use and turn them into a stop/start animation, after I had the scenes I wanted I saved them as jpg files and opened them in Photoshop cropped them, used the film grain filter and then reduced the hue and saturation on everything except the shorts I had on. The next part was to import them to flash and put the images in order on the timeline and for how long I want the scene to be shown for. The next part of is to add speech bubbles and tweens, my comic doesn’t really have a story line so there isn’t that much dialog  and I was rushed for time so there aren’t as many tweens I would like but ii feel that comic still fore fills its purpose

The things I would change in my comic is the start button and background, I should have made it in flash not Photoshop because you can see the pixels. And I also want to change the position of the button it’s self and centralise it.

If I had to do this unit again I would stick to a really simple idea and keep it, also I would try and get as much of the animation side of the comic done at the beginning and not leave it to the last minute .
I thought this was a good project but I feel I could have done better with more time so the comic didn’t look rushed.

comic style