Flash

For the last couple of weeks we have been using adobe flash in labs and attempting to get to grips with the technology. It looks like Flash could possibly be even more “finicky” than Dreamweaver. I used Flash during my undergraduate degree and it took a solid week of concentrating only on flash for me to begin to understand how an animation is created. I eventually became familiar with the frames timelines and layers etc and once I did I was able to create quite a detailed animation. Like Dreamweaver though, one wrong move led to the complete disintegration of my animation which made the whole process quite tedious.

For my animation I created a timeline of Michael Jackson’s life. One frame involved the creation of a moving figure doing the “moonwalk” across the screen. During this process I found the following video really helpful in creating fluidity in the character’s movements.