Darin Tillinghast ~ Midterm

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Use Kuler to select color scheme

I use multiple swatches in Kuler and re created themes. However I used only single colors and none of the complete themes. I used custom linear color for my sky.

Drawing objects & New Symbols

I drew 2 wolves using the pen tool and brush; I reshaped one of the wolves. I used the same tools for the shale rock, the tree and cliffs. I used the deco tool to spray my leaves and flowers on the tree.
I downloaded and copied free graphics for the leaves on the tree and the birds and saved all these as new symbols.
I used my sailboat resized it and renamed it as a new symbol. It’s my icon.

Frame-by-Frame Animation is my fly in colorful signature.

Shape Tween

The moon becoming a half moon.

Classic and Motion Tweens

I used stars falling down and out from the waterfall. I had to name the stars into there own group and color category. I wanted to see what would happen if I used one group at the classic tween then the other two groups as a motion tween.
I don’t see the difference here.

The bird is a classic tween; I did the tutorial online and created 4 frames inside the same time line layer with different poses of flight of the hawk. Then I created the classic tween with 4 frames and unselected sync. Under looping I choose single frame. I choose 1 through 4 to change the flight of the bird. It is cool however not a smooth transition. I changed the ease in the properties to 100% ease out.

I used the stars flying up to the moon. They are motion tweens. I used the motion editor Basic Motion, Transformation and Color effects. I selected simple slow for the stars then custom selected all the color changes with tint. They change in size, position and color when the get to the moon from the pond.

I made 2 layers for the wolf moving onto the lower rocks. The first is a motion tween, I tried to make the second wolf pose a shape tween but the shape distorted too much. I went to Modify, shape and then add shape hints to try and get this tool to keep my wolf from blobbing out but this did not work. Then I “broke apart” my wolf, this worked, however then the wolf exploded and disappeared so I used a classic tween and the wolf shows his head down however it is not a very smooth transition as I had hoped.

I added the IK grass on the cliff.

Extra Credit nested motion Tween:

I created this star at home after class I adjusted the size of the star at the top so it appears like a little contraction is occurring when it touches the bottom. I posted this on the blog.