Project4-Jeff C.

Project 4

My favorite tweening type involves the motion tween and the motion presets. I decided I wanted my alien to be beamed up into the spaceship and the presets made it very easy to get the effect I wanted.

The biggest problem I had using the tweening is getting the motion tween to start at just the time I want to and have the object in a specific place the rest of the time. I have not figured out how to move the tween start to the exact place that I want. I've had to adjust all of the other objects timelines to work around the start and stop/length to compensate.

I used onion skinning briefly when I was syncing the spaceship, beam, and the alien tweens so that I could time them all correctly and see the motion as a still.

The nested animation is the alien's arm waving as it is about to beamed up. This took a while to get right but it assisted me because otherwise it would have been very difficult to get the arm to wave while having the alien beam up. I would have had to create two motion tweens for both the alien and the arm to beam both up and have the arm waving simultaneously... at least I think I could have done this some how.

I used easing for a few shooting stars to have the alpha go to 100% as they reach the horizon. Also for the glow effect on other stars. On both the moon and the stars I used the glow filter. On the text I used the glow filter and the blur blend. I was going to use the alpha and blur tools on the alien when it was beamed up but I didn't have to because the preset took care of that for me.

I had issues (unresolved) with creating the text (TFT) that I could use 3d motions with because for some reason I can't publish it to a .swf file... I also found it extremely frustrating as mentioned above making the placement of the tweens at just the right spots in the timeline. This was almost impossible to get past and even now I'm not happy with the way it turned out because I couldn't figure out how to change the length of the static object once the motion tween was included on the timeline. Moving the tween and changing the length was easy.