Final Project - Craig Phillips

Final Project

Storyboards

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

I tried to make people interested in skateboarding or if they already skateboard, then go out and skate (with my fake product). I think I did. Skateboarders like to see sequenced tricks and that was the coolest part of my project probably.

I didn't use any prior objects, unfortunately. I figured I'd take the hit on the five points to avoid having an alien rampaging through the background of my skateboard ad.

I didn't use a nested animation. I used a lot of tweens, but decided there weren't any particular objects that would benefit from nesting.

Please provide a detailed description of your process for any complex

graphic:

My graphics weren't too complex, but the trick sequence was pretty fun to do. I just brought in a frame-by-frame picture of someone doing a 360-flip and traced over each frame with the brush tool. I did this for each captured position of the skater, then used the five or six different symbols with some motion riding up to the next position and fading out (alpha change) quickly to make it smoother or more stylish. Like I said, it's not super-complex, but it was fun to try and mimic the real movement of a 360-flip.

I mostly used the brush tool to create the objects that aren't text. I did a lot of onion-skinning and that sort of thing. Even the mask of the skater with the concrete and stairs in the background was made by brushing over a real picture.

I like to keep my library and timeline management simple. Folders for each different animation or seemingly same object. Of course, keeping armatures and sound in folders is what I did as well. Library is pretty much the same for me.

I ran into a really frustrating problem. For some reason, between adding sound and actionscript, my armatures disappeared. I tried a bunch of different things and for some reason, they don't show up. There are supposed to be some swinging chains in the final info screen, but they don't show. They were a little cheesy anyway, but this was very disappointing.