collins+milgo+9dtr+2009+class+unit+3

__ Investigation. __ When I was researching I found out that there were better programs that could work well than flash mx, but the only disadvantage was that they cost a lot of money. Here are some examples of those programs. Adobe after effects: []

Adobe Flash professional: []

Anime studio: []

Artoonix: []

Cacani: []

Crazy talk animator: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CrazyTalk_Animator&action=edit&redlink=1

Dimp animator: []

There were more but I couldn’t right them all. I found out more about them. They are better than flash mx but they were not user friendly because they were created in a very complex way. Because new technology has arrived, people have developed and new products have arrived. Because of new technology the people will have to adapt to it. So actually the products don’t change with people but actually with the technology.

__ design specification __ This is the first design that I had made:

This was not that bad to me although it did not relate that much to the unit question. It was not that convincing to me and It seemed like a joke instead of being real animation.

This one was the best I had so far. It was related to the unit question and it was more reasonable. I liked how the story is and I thought this one would be nice for my animation at the create stage. This was only my storyboard, I decided that I would add some things to this design so that it could answer more about the unit questions. my design needed this: it needed to explain and answer the unit question, also it needed to help my classmates and the community have a better understanding of the unit question, it needed to be a little fun but very productive, it had to have creativity. my final creation had to have all the things said by the task sheet or the criteria.

http://bmisclass2009.wikispaces.com/Assesment+Year+9

__ Design. __ I planned that I would first create a storyboard about environmental issues. I choose pollution to be the main story in my animation. But as I was thinking, I changed my mind and made deforestation as the main environmental issue, this is the storyboard I created for my animation..

This storyboard is about the environmental issue DEFORESTATION. This is my experimental animation on stickman to see how good I was. After I did this, I found out that this was the best that I could animate. It had everything about the environment; I only needed to change some things in the story. I choose this one because it was the closest to the topics. 

__ My plan. __

__ Week one. __

do the investigation.

Experiment on flash mx.

Do the plan.

Week two.

Do the storyboarding.

The real stickman animations.

Week three.

Evaluations.

this was the plan that i had created for unit 3.

__ Skills and storyboarding ..__

To create a very good stickman animation, you need a storyboard for it. You need to plan correctly, and for that you will need skills and if you don’t have them, eventually your animation wouldn’t not look good or pleasing. The best way to create an animation, is to draw what is going to happen in the animation and also you will need to consider the layers. If you have no storyboard you would not know what to create..

An example is this one.

It is not as perfect as it would have been but this how you are supposed to create a stickman but using layers

__ About flash mx. __

in this flash mx, you can create an animation by using frames. It is very easy to use because it has a help manual. You can make any animation you want to make any time. Also there are different times of making an animation and this are the ones: a framed animation and a tweened animation. A framed animation is an animation where you draw a an object and then got to the next frame and do the same but change the movements of the objects. When you do that with many frames and play it, it would look like the object is moving. And a tweened animation is an animation where you can see what you’re doing frame by frame or even see in one frame. The flash mx gives you layers so when you have done a mistake you can go back and reedit. The flash mx is the software that helps you to be more creative.

__ Evaluation __

How I did:

I think for each stage I really tried because I have never dedicated much time for those stages. Although the animation was not that perfect, I think I did better than the last project we were given. Some stages were hard to do example: the investigation part. I found that part very hard for me because the only software animator we knew was the flash mx. And most animation software’s were not for stickman animations. I found it very hard to find a good website that would meet my expectations. In the create stage, it was very easy at first making animations move, but to make the pictures change from one to another was very hard. For me the planning cycle was very because I had figured out what to do in those coming weeks.

What I would Improve on:

I would improve my time management because I did not quite reach the deadlines for some stages. Also i would also improve on my skills with the software. If I had studied the software very well I would have had a much better animation.

What I would have done differently:

I would have chosen another software rather than flash x because it kept getting stuck and sometimes would not work well. Overall, flash mx was the worst software for stickman animations.

The create stage:

These are some diagrams to explain how I was creating the stickman ]this was when i was starting the animation. it was very hard and also it was very disturbing because the software kept getting stuck everytime. here are some more screenshots for the animations.





as you can see,i did alot of work with the stickman animations. although some parts were very fast, i manage to make them slow. it was very hard working with the software because it was lagging to much and also it kept getting stuck. the feutures in the software were okay but not user friendly. it would not tell you what this does and that you will have to find out by yourself