BLOG #4: Animation

One of the aspects of doing animation in Adobe Flash that I found interesting is the whole process of manipulating each image to make them animate. It is interesting how much time and detail is spent on trying to give the illusion of an object in motion. The concept of the Shape Tween was interesting to see the many shapes in Flash morph into another shape very smoothly on the screen. Secondly, it was interesting using the various tools used in graphic editing to create animations. Another aspect of animation I found interesting is that you are free to create and express yourself through animating various characters and their surroundings. There are no restrictions when it comes to animation because it’s an alternate world one can experiment, create and express throughout.

In my animation project I’m happy with what I was able to put together overall since it was my first time using Adobe Flash. I’m also happy in the process of learning little by little as I explored the program of Flash as I was creating my own animation simultaneously. I would not change much in my animation that I created since it is a very basic animation for a beginner’s level as me. One of the things I learned unexpected was time and detail process it takes overall to create animations within Flash.

I always had an appreciation for animators and animation as an art form. My appreciation has even grown more because the process in creating animation takes a lot of time and detail spent on them. The process of creating an illusion of movement on screen is a tremendous task while telling a story.

I was little more familiar with video editing oppose to animation so the process is different. It’s different for me because in video editing your working primary with moving video images already on screen opposed to animation you have to create everything from scratch yourself. In addition, with video editing it’s easier for me to visually manipulate moving action through video while telling a story. Nevertheless, I still found the animation process and the program Flash fun and interesting at times.