Project 4 - Samuel Cohoon

The Project

• What was your favorite tweening type? What did you enjoy most in this module?

Motion tweening, primarily because it was the easiest. My favorite part of module/project was that we were given 'artistic freedom', and we could throw whatever we wanted on the stage o apply the tweens/animations to.

• What challenges did you have using the various tweening tools?

The only challenge that I faced when getting to know the tweening tools was when trying to get a classic tween to follow a motion path., and the only reason that was hard was because my tween was of a large symbol that was mostly empty, transparent space...

• Did you use onion skinning to assist with your frame-by-frame animation? How did you feel it assisted you?

I decided to go through the Frame-by-Frame process to create an animation that would look 10 times better as a motion tween (and take way less time). Why? I don't know, I needed something to do. Now, to answer the question, I did use the onion skin and it helped bundles. Onion skinning allowed me to place parts of my aliens anatomy just perfectly over the last layer so that the animation was somewhat fluid.

• Which symbol did you use in the nested animation? What challenges did you have creating it?

I used the shootingstar symbol to create the nested animation. The comet moves across the sky and also changed color (the color change is the nested animation). This process seemed really straight forward to me; I didn't have any problems with it.

• What easing did you use for your motion tween?

I used ease once, and it was the 'stop and start (fastest)' preset. I used it on the comet just so that the nested animation would be visible, it made my life easier.

• What filters or blend modes did you use? Please identify the tween that you applied these modification.

I used a blur filter and an alpha color effect to make my alien disappear into space. At first I just threw a

• Did you have any issues using the 3-D tool to create your animation?

It seemed that, at times, the 3-D tool wouldn't show up on the stage when i clicked on it; but I was always allowed to edit the 3-d settings in the transform window... so it worked out.