Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Final Presentation Slide List
1. Opening Title - Water Over Time
2. Brief explanation / motivation
3. Image: Close-up of small instructional bubble
4. Image: Close up of big bubble with timeline information
5. Image: Still shot of the whole animation
2. Brief explanation / motivation
3. Image: Close-up of small instructional bubble
4. Image: Close up of big bubble with timeline information
5. Image: Still shot of the whole animation
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Next Steps
Today's feedback:
- Redefine the blue
- Make the transition more slow with the sound
- The circles should stay once the information is displayed
- Put everything together in one file (random movement of the bubbles)
- Review the action scripting of the sms.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Creating the animated bubbles!
I hope it's clear for everyone and we can animated them all!
1. When opening the file, you will find three layers: actions, sound and bubble. The first thing we need to do is change the movieclip name, on the file I sent you is called 1960, go to the library, right click on the movieclip and select rename.
2. Once we renamed the movieclip, we can start modifying the symbol. Double click on the symbol (on the scene or the library, works anyway). Here you will find more layers, actions, options, rings, bubbleOff, bubbleOn, bubbleOff.
3. All we need to do now is replace the texts; year and information. Double click on the bubble on the scene (01.swf), when doing this, you'll see how the layer bubble off will highlight.
4. Once inside this symbol, you'll find two layers bubble and year, the one you'll be modifying is year.
5. If you click on the year, you'll find out that is a group of elements, double click on it, and you'll be able to access to all of them. Click over 1960's until is selected with a blue box around it.
6. Once the text box is selected, double click on it, until it gets highlighted in black, and you'll be able to type on it.
7. Now we go back to the 1960 symbol (in my case is called like that, but it should have the name of the year you're working on), clicking on it on the bar between the scene and the timeline (it's highlighted in red), and we'll go to frame 8, that's the where the transition of the second layer starts.
8. We need to repeat the same previous steps to change the year's information.
9. Once we do this, we go again to the 1960 symbol, and go to frame 21, we'll edit now the movieclip called bubbleRings.
10. Double click on this symbol, and you'll find two layers actions and rings. We'll be editing the symbols on each layer, changing once again the year. The process is the same as the one we have been doing before. Double click on it, double click on the grouped symbol of the year, select the year box, double click it, and type.
11. We have to do this on all the symbols on the rest of the keyframes (8 frames), the procedures is the same one, so it's quite an automatic work ( I know!!!! it's boring, but it's cleaner).
12. Once we modified the movieclip called bubbleRings, we'll be working on the transition of the bubble to display the information, so once again, we go to our symbol 1960, go to the frame 30, and double click on the symbol.
12. Inside this movieclip, we'll find the layers actions, text, littleBubble, year, bubble. This movieclip is the one with more editing.
13. First, we'll work with the year, if you click on the symbol, and you'll find the group, keep clicking on it until you have the year highlighted on black and you can type on it.
14. From frame 6 to 12, there's the transition of the little bubble showing the year and the water+ (or -, depending on the case). Go to frame 12, double click on the symbol, once again, you find a group of elements, the year and the water +, keep clicking on them until you can edit them.
15. Go back to the symbol transition, clicking on its name on the bar between the timeline and the scene. Go to frame 22, to modify the text. The procedure is the same, click on it until you're inside the symbol and can type.
This is the main editing we need to do for now, as you can see the little bubble with the year is an independent symbol so it can be moved to any side of the main bubble, feel free to do this!!!
Transition
4. Once inside this symbol, you'll find two layers bubble and year, the one you'll be modifying is year.
5. If you click on the year, you'll find out that is a group of elements, double click on it, and you'll be able to access to all of them. Click over 1960's until is selected with a blue box around it.
6. Once the text box is selected, double click on it, until it gets highlighted in black, and you'll be able to type on it.
7. Now we go back to the 1960 symbol (in my case is called like that, but it should have the name of the year you're working on), clicking on it on the bar between the scene and the timeline (it's highlighted in red), and we'll go to frame 8, that's the where the transition of the second layer starts.
8. We need to repeat the same previous steps to change the year's information.
9. Once we do this, we go again to the 1960 symbol, and go to frame 21, we'll edit now the movieclip called bubbleRings.
10. Double click on this symbol, and you'll find two layers actions and rings. We'll be editing the symbols on each layer, changing once again the year. The process is the same as the one we have been doing before. Double click on it, double click on the grouped symbol of the year, select the year box, double click it, and type.
11. We have to do this on all the symbols on the rest of the keyframes (8 frames), the procedures is the same one, so it's quite an automatic work ( I know!!!! it's boring, but it's cleaner).
12. Once we modified the movieclip called bubbleRings, we'll be working on the transition of the bubble to display the information, so once again, we go to our symbol 1960, go to the frame 30, and double click on the symbol.
12. Inside this movieclip, we'll find the layers actions, text, littleBubble, year, bubble. This movieclip is the one with more editing.
13. First, we'll work with the year, if you click on the symbol, and you'll find the group, keep clicking on it until you have the year highlighted on black and you can type on it.
14. From frame 6 to 12, there's the transition of the little bubble showing the year and the water+ (or -, depending on the case). Go to frame 12, double click on the symbol, once again, you find a group of elements, the year and the water +, keep clicking on them until you can edit them.
15. Go back to the symbol transition, clicking on its name on the bar between the timeline and the scene. Go to frame 22, to modify the text. The procedure is the same, click on it until you're inside the symbol and can type.
This is the main editing we need to do for now, as you can see the little bubble with the year is an independent symbol so it can be moved to any side of the main bubble, feel free to do this!!!
Transition
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