Referential Animation

Oh Boy! Its finally done! But it was a definitely a challenge, I learned so much doing this first animation. My idea was to switch my sounds so that the drill would be my referential piece. Then I came up with the sound representing something just as cringing as the drill - nails on a chalk board! I decided to have my restriction be only still photographs - so I rented a camera from the library and got my beautiful friend Siri to come with my to Fairbanks and photograph her hands running down a chalk board. Next I went back uploaded and edit the pictures in Aperture then imported them to my flash piece.

Only five pictures in the the swf froze one me! This happened in class too! Luckly I wasn't too far in so I just reopened and started working again. I realized it froze because the images were too big - so I went back in Aperture and resized them and reuploaded. Figuring out how to resize in Aperture was not easy, but I figured it out thanks to google. :^D

Then I noticed my sound was too long, so I had a fisaco in trying to figure it out in Flash on how to cut it down. I got help from a variety of people but no one could figure it out. Eventually I took it to Garage Band, lol, and cut out the sound I didnt need. Then figuring out how to export it to something I could add back into Flash was another ordeal - but I worked through it and found out you have to export to a CD then you can have it save as an aif file.

Click to here to hear the edited SOUND!

Then everything started going to plan and I made it to the end. I got some help from the upper classmen on how to make it stop looping, except they forgot you need a space in the action script, so I figured that part out. The whole process too much longer than what I explained but it was a great learning experience and I feel more confindent in my skills now.

Click here to see the final ANIMATION!