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starting S creature:D:D

It's time to animate my next creature. Its name is the S creature :) clever, huh? :p
It's S because it's too Scared, it wears cool Sneakers and it's always hiding behind the big leter S hahah


Here is my sketch of how i want the animation to be

hahah
I even made the sneakers for S from a stolen google photo. I really like them. i wish i could wear similar :) hah

I'm S, nice to meet you guys:)

The Timer Class

For one of my main characters i wanted a little pause on a particular frame for a few seconds.
After my research i found out how to do it- with the timer class.

there is a good explanation available here.

The code is pretty simple. Basically, you create  a Timer and specify the delay and how many times it will repeat or  the repeat count . Then u create a function to call every time the delay has passed.


 the delay property is measured in milliseconds.

Here i'm telling my creature to stop for 5000 milliseconds just once, and then continue playing till the end.

Spray brush tool.Yes, spraying is cool!

I was looking at "How to Cheat in Flash CS4"and i found a small tutorial for the spray brush tool.
What is  interesting in it is that u can put different symbols and "spray"with them.
I decided to make a  movie clip, simply animate my creature and see what will happen.

See the RESULT

That's cool and definitely useful.
My plan is to have just ONE creature on the stage and when u press it, it multiplies a lot of times like in the example i showed u.

ready

 my portfolio prototype
yes. It's just a prototype to show how it works.
The red thing should be a mouth. Just imagen it, please.
The bigger characters like the blue one or the one behind "t" are actually my sections.
As you know, i will add one for photography (see the sketch or the ready illustr.) and interactions.
The idea is when u press one of this "main character" a mouth opens and present the information in the teeth.
Yes, the white squares are theet:D for now, of course.

I still have so much stuff to do. Damn!:D


http://slab.sunderland.ac.uk/~bf66qq/videos/portfolio-website%20prototype.swf


This is again just a simple animation of how the teeth should work
Imagine that every tooth is a small thumbnail of my illustration, for example, and when u press it, it opens in the whole mouth.

http://slab.sunderland.ac.uk/~bf66qq/videos/mouth_open.swfers

tutorials

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/new_media/interactive_characters_in_flash

this one is pretty good.
it helped me develop my N character using the tween class.

I also looked at "How to cheat in Flash CS4", which gave me a better idea of how i can colour my characters using gradients and shadows. The tween tutorials are nice as well. In my opinion, it's very useful book, but you need to have some basic knowledge in flash to actually understand everything that's written. I din't get everything so i has to checked it separetly in google:D However, i have a PDF version of it so if someone's interested, just let me know:)

shape tweens

some examples of using shape tween to animate my objects. i quite like this tween and i'm going to use ot for my plants.

1 http://slab.sunderland.ac.uk/~bf66qq/videos/aidde.swf

2http://slab.sunderland.ac.uk/~bf66qq/videos/changig%20flowers.swf

3 http://slab.sunderland.ac.uk/~bf66qq/videos/elenashapetween.swf i might use this with my name "naturalistic creatures" in the beginning..
btw i made myself the font using http://fontstruct.com/
it's cool. You can create your own fonts very easily for free. just need to create an acount.