Dialogue

This wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I could do it, but I just couldn't do it well.

Walk cycle

Honestly, I had more trouble setting up the puppet than controlling it.

Weight

I'm just gonna put this out there: I cannot draw, let alone draw the same thing more than once. The onion skin doesn't help either.

Rotoscope

This was world's most inconvenient thing ever. Also I don't know what the fuck I did to make it look like this but the layers didn't separate, they just kept piling onto each other and then the audio didn't work when I exported it.
Also when I heard we were doing something called "rotoscope" I didn't like the idea because I've done rotoscope before, or at least I thought. When I did rotoscope before it was in after effects using the rotoscope tool and it's is NOT the same thing.

Kinteic Typography

This was my favorite project to do. I was tempted to do the entire song and then I realized how long it took just to do 30 seconds and then I'm like "...no."

Art Deco

For the art deco project I used the camera movement tool. I wanted to tell the story of a prima ballerina being judged by the ballet master, ensemble dancers, and her understudy.

Animatic

It says my video is too big even though it's literally 4 pictures and a title card. Really, Blogger?? But yeah, basically I want the dancers to dance and stretch by moving their arms, legs, torsos and shadows.

Bouncing Ball in AE

After Effects was a breath of fresh air after Flash. It's much easier to use. Using the pen tool was about the same even though I still had a problem with the timing although this time instead of being too fast it was too slow.

Using the pen tool to make the guide was the same as Flash, making the keys was much easier with the drop down menus in After Effects. For the squash and stretch I couldn't remember how it was done in class so I used a method I learned when making my senior thesis film. I split the layer and changed the shape of the ball in each layer I split from the original layer; yes it gives you a shit-ton of layers to work with when you're done but it gets the job done. The explosion I just imported from a free FX website and made it go KA-BOOM!!

Ball bounce in Flash

I did it!! I've never used Flash before, so this was all very new to me. I've taken enough production classes and used after Effects and Premiere enough to know that no matter how much I struggle there will be a logical explanation to whatever it is I can't figure out. I tend to get really lost because there are so many details to each process that when I miss one there is no recovery.

I first figured out how to make an arc with the pen tool  by using the handles. The I figured out how to make a tween and get the ball to follow the path by linking them. Then I attempted to adjust the time of the fall and do the squash and stretch.

Unrelated note: Nothing has ever exported so fast.