Et voila!

(heart)Beat

Evergreen

By the way, here's a parting gift for all. It's a really gorgeous animation from the latest aniboom competition. Definitely made me rethink the style of my senior thesis.

Finito!

Well, that is that. (heart)Beat is complete. I am now in the final stages, editing the sound and making it look like a presentable file. The final file will be up by the end of class today.

I had a great time working on this project, and have really enjoyed my experience with Flash. You can definitely see a marked improvement in my work (look at the drawings at the beginning of the animation compared to the end!). I will be utilizing this frame-by-frame hand drawing technique for my senior thesis.

Hoorah! More soon!

Scene 8 Test

Scene 8 Test. Getting tired of birds.

Scene 6: Complete! (Blogger is being retarded, here's a Youtube clip)





This leaves only two scenes and a camera movement left to go. I'm feelin' good.

PS: Let it be known that Brandyn and I are no longer friends since he will be missing our Rock Band tournament for his mother's wedding. Who does that?? Also, let it be known that I am looking for a new drummer.

Week 8?

Okay, well, apparently Blogger doesn't feel like uploading video today, but I've completed the 4th scene. Now I'm working on scene 5 and 6. This is going to be a busy weekend.

Well, despite the fact that I took a mini-vacation this weekend (very bad of me, I know), I still have an update for you. Here's the latest pass on Scene 3:



It's definitely getting down to crunch time, but I feel I've been managing my time well. So far, so good.

Things have been trucking right along smoothly. So far, I have kept to my schedule accurately, and may in fact be finished earlier than I had anticipated. Here's a test of the scene I'm currently working on:



I actually found video of birds "dancing", so I may change some of the motions around in this test to seem more "birdlike". If I'm feeling ambitious.

Week 7

So here we are: the beginning of week 7.

So far, things have been progressing nicely. The only roadblock I've run into so far is that the file I have been working in has started to become slow due to having so many shapes and frames. From now on, I will have to create scenes in separate files rather than all in one file with multiple scenes. Also, I recently discovered that I was doing my early scenes in the wrong aspect ratio, so I will need to go back and scale those to the correct size. However, these are minor speedbumps, and overall, I have been very happy with my progress so far.

The test of scenes 1-3 (scenes 1 & 2 are complete besides needing to be rescaled, and scene 3 is in progress):




And I also began work on scene 6 when scene 3 started to slow down. This is a very rough blocking, so far, and the bird will be fully animated (not gliding, as he is in this test).