Final Project - Amber King

| html | swf | fla |

What was your intention for your project? Did you meet that goal?

I wanted to create a flash-based 'business card'/banner that describes what I can do as a modeler, and I think that my project does that adequately.

Please identify your symbols from a prior project.

The only symbol that I reused was the flittering fairy from project 8. I imported the appearance and the flying animation, and gave it a new motion tween to make it fly around the signs.

Did you create a nested animation? If so, which symbol is it?

None of the animations are done on the main timeline, they're all inside different symbols to keep the main timeline clean. The fairy is animated with a fluttering animation and then the animated symbol is used in a motion tween in a movie clip. The wind gust is a shape tween nested into a motion tween.

Include a general review of the drawing tools you created.

Most of the objects are modified rectangles. The clouds were mostly made with ovals, and the grass was made with the pen tool. I duplicated and modified the grass symbol to make it look less uniform.

Please discuss how you managed your library assets and your timeline.

I made use of several folders to separate symbols in the library into more manageable pieces, particularly the models, which required me to import dozens of pictures to create frame-by-frame animations of them. 

• Motion Tweens: 2 sets of clouds, fluttering fairy, wind gust
• Shape Tween: wind gust
• Armature with Inverse Kinematics: grass patches. I ended up creating 4 separate grass patches with different animations.
• Audio Clip: the sign buttons have an audio clip attached to their Down state.
• Mask: there is a mask on the fairy to make it appear as if it's flying in front of and behind the signs.
• Text: The buttons have text, and the resume page is separated into columns. 
• Buttons: All of the buttons have multiple layers for the base and the text. There are six versions of the sign buttons, and four versions of the buttons on the other pages. The Website sign button links to my website. The buttons on the other pages can play, stop, and reset the animations, as well as return the user to the 'main page'
• Actionscript: Button linking to URL, and play/stop/reset/close the animations.

The biggest challenge for this project was getting all of the Actionscript to work. The handlers for the buttons on the secondary pages had to be put on the frames in the timeline that the buttons appear, and it took me quite a bit of troubleshooting to figure that out.