Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Toy Company Flash Microsite
I have finished creating the look of the overall design for The Toy Company's Alien Republic micro site. I have completely scrapped the original idea and started this one. I still have to finish coding the Action Script 3 and get all the elements to work in flash. Overall i think this turned out very good and I look forward to the final product. Here are some of the concept design ideas I am working on....Now its just a matter of getting everything to work!
Enjoy!
The Enter Screen After the preloader...
The outer glow around the tank fades in and out
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Interactive Flash Website
Sunday, September 13, 2009
3D Snowy Scene - North Pole
visit my new website at http://www.soaringgravity.com
Saturday, September 12, 2009
3D Studio Scenes
I also attempted to make a subway platform that appears to not be rendering properly. For whatever reason the textures and lighting is not rendering properly at all.
Here is the picture of the subway platform screenshot that I attempted to make. I cant wait to make cooler stuff in 3D Studio Max
Friday, April 3, 2009
Skate or Die 09
As the first year is slowly coming to an end, I am currently working on a micro flash website for my dma205 flash class with Andrew Tedford. The website that i am currently working on is for a magazine called pond70 site at http://www.pond70.com. I am building a micro site for the Skate or Die issue. This project has to be one of the most beneficial projects that I will be working on because it is preparing me for the entire digital media arts industry and also improving my problem solving skills. I have already created a non functioning mock up in Photoshop CS4 and have posted a version of it on my new website, http://www.soaringgravity.com/escapetoskate. I will now show the basic steps that i went through to build all of these source materials.
http://www.soaringgravity.com/escapetoskate
http://www.soaringgravity.com
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
My Fruit Picker-
Friday, January 16, 2009
Adobe Flash Intro Research
We use button symbols to link to a certain frame or frames in the timeline in flash CS4. To create a button one must do the following One might use a button to create interaction between the user and the interface. Buttons are a graphical navigational element that allows the target to navigate the movie or link to an external link. One may also use a button to carry out a simple Action Script 3 command such as “stop();” to stop the movie. One may use a button to advance to a different place in the movie. For example to navigate to a different place in the movie one may use action script commands such as “gotoAndStop(frameNumber);” The best thing about buttons is that one can control them with Action Script.
1. Using one of the shape tools create a simple shape such as a circle or a rectangle
2. Add the text or additional elements that you would like to be included with the button
3. Using the multiple selection tool or by holding shift and selecting all button elements right click them and click convert to symbol alternatively you can press F8 or from the top menu, Modify >> Convert to symbol
4. A dialogue box will pop up with three different symbol options such as movie clip, button, and graphic
5. Click button, name it appropriately and click ok (if it is not named it will be harder to manage later on)
6. Now the button will be added to the symbol library
7. Double click the button in order for the button timeline to appear
8. The timeline will appear with four frames for up, over, down, and hit
9. Now select the timeline section for up and create key frame now change a graphical element of the button such as text or the button colour do the same for the next three key frames
10. Now to link the button to a website or a part of the flash movie one will need to carry out action script 3 commands-I only knew AS2 Commands : (
11. Now press ctrl + enter to test the button. We test a movie to see how it will behave on the internet
12. CONGRATULATIONS YOU MADE A SIMPLE BUTTON
Graphic
One might create a graphic symbol when they need to use multiple copies of the same item in the animation instead of creating the object again and again. One can then create an animation from these graphical symbols
1. Using one of the shape tools create a simple shape such as a circle or a rectangle
2. Using the multiple selection tool or by holding shift and selecting all button elements right click them and click convert to symbol. Alternatively you can press F8 or from the top menu Modify >> Convert to symbol
3. A dialogue box will pop up with three different symbol options such as movie clip, button, and graphic
4. Click graphic, give an appropriate name and press ok (if it is not named it will be harder to manage later on)
5. Once it is converted it will be inserted into the symbol library
6. By dragging the symbol from the symbol library it will be created on the stage. (multiple symbols can be created dragging multiple times)
Movie Clip
If one needs to use AS3 commands they will have to use a movie clip. A movie clip symbol is a piece of reusable flash animation that can also be controlled with ease. One can perform modifications to a movie clip such as modifying elements such as dimensions, position, color, alpha. A movie clip can also be controlled easily using Action Script 3 commands. These are the simple steps to create a movie clip:
1. Using one of the shape tools create a simple shape such as a circle or a rectangle
2. Using the multiple selection tool or by holding shift and selecting all button elements right click them and click convert to symbol. Alternatively you can press F8 or from the top menu Modify >> Convert to symbol
3. A dialogue box will pop up with three different symbol options such as movie clip, button, and graphic
4. Make sure that the movie clip radio button is selected and name the symbol appropriately (if it is not named it will be harder to manage later on)
5. Now the symbol will be created in the symbol library and can now be dragged and dropped from the symbol library for use.
Font
One may create a font symbol to export fonts from Flash document to another. Although i have never created a font symbol with the right amount of research and experimentation I will describe the steps one needs to follow to create one
1. Open the font library in which you would like to create a new font for
2. Select new font from the library panel
3. Enter a name that you want to recognize the font by in the name text field (if it is not named it will be harder to manage later on)
4. Select the font family from the font family list enter a name for the font
5. If you want to embed the font information as bitmap selects the bitmap option. When you select the bitmap option you can also change the size from the size dialogue box