Flash animation: Pinapple Crush

Have been mucking around with Flash8 this lesson...finished off my short animation....Enjoy

scooters, vacation, fall

I got some positive feedback from Kodie on Wednesday regarding my experimental film. He commented on the creepiness of it, the light, and the asthetic shots, everything I aimed for! He also found several viruses on my computer ("No Jo, don't look to see if there is such thing a dental-floss porn") *cough* Also, I must not cancel the computers protection just because it makes it faster......
I haven't had a chance to work on the video anymore due to Premier freezing every time I try to render. I think it's because I saved it unrendered and now it's chucking a s***. I must retrieve my tri-pod on Tuesday as trying to prop the camera efficiently while stop-mo-ing is proving ineffective. I was looking back on my proposal I did early on. Sadly the animation I wanted to do never went ahead because Flash really isn't smooth enough for what I wanted to do. Still, I guess, I have learned somthing. *end transmission*

Dodging a Fail

Just a quick post to re-establish my being active in this subject. I have, despite absence of posts, been moving forward with my experimental video, but little else. After my meeting with Roger in the hall and my short comings being illuminated I have realised I need some help with some parts of the subject if I want to get a pass or better. I really don't understand the link recording thing and RSS. I will start my cork animation tonight (and listen to the RSS recording that i missed). I have painted half a dozen corks to look like people. They will feature (along with my rubber ducky Floyd) in short episodes. These episodes will be stop-motion (corks have limited movement or expression) and I will animate in speech and such with flash. anyway I must be off. Back on tonight!!! bye!

More updates!

I have just started editing my "Real Boy" video footage. I had some problems shooting as I could only go to location on the weekend and it rained two in a row! Not helpful! Finaly though I got about ten minutes of very attractive imagery. It will be hard to cut any of it out as the light was perfect for shooting and it's all very clear. I plan to take the other footage, of the hand/puppet master, in my bath, very soon...My Flash skills are improving although I am still unsure with the process of uploading scanned cutouts into the program. Unless I can easily upload cut outs and manipulate them like the manually drawn lines my intended project "Ruby and the Morbid Children" will be impossible. Presentations went well last week, Amelia and myself presented together as we have both been working on animation and conepts...I am inspired to do more now, story boards for cork animation completed. Tis a simple story but funny. Also I'm pleased with my results so far, I plan to push myself more to get A's.
The link to the animations Amelia and I presented. (Blogger won't let me add it as a directly followable link. please paste it into your search bar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3ZfiQSK94

Flash8

http://www.baycongroup.com/flash/00_flash.htm

Chris gave me a crash course in the basics of Flash8 animation this week. Above is a link to a Flash8 tute which I will explore in more depth after I have perfected the very basics of the application. From first appearance i'm not sure it will surfice for doing my proposed animation...but I don't know for sure at this stage. I'll ask Chris to show me another day how to import cutouts and such...for now I'll play with the stick figures.

Cork Construction

I've just finished painting Erik Cork, who stars as "that guy who dies" in Corks of Our Lives. I have a few more of them under construction. It takes alot of layers of paint to get a nice looking finish so tis a bit time consuming, but hey, look at the results! Please observe, Erik in cork-form!

noteable advancments...

1. I have started storyboarding for my second project "Real Boy" which will be an experimental art film. I intend to begin shooting on the weekend.
2. I have decided to capture my foreign film onto my own laptop to edit. As I have moved all inactive video files onto my Mp3 for storage, there is now room to work on a largish file.

I plan to film my experimental film project in Southport or Lune river. I scouted both area's for location last year when I first intended to do this project. I have been made aware of an abandoned and overgrown house in the general area that may be ideal...

Kodie may be going to install XP onto my laptop instead of Vista (which is what it's running now) That should free up some space and increase speed.
I have my camera back from Daniel, so that's good.....Umm....Oh yeah, Chris was going to show me how to animate on the double lesson Tuesday. I forgot about it....So, I will ask him if he is still free to show me next week. (Sorry Chris)
I reckon that's all for now....

Oh damnit, I'm at home working...and my computer dosn't want to open any of the files related to Tuesdays presentation....I will have to do it at school tomorrow. Oh well, I tryed.