Flash Animation

Introduction- 

     Flash animation is an adobe program that makes animations for both mac and pc. Flash animation can be used to make simple ball bouncing to a more complicated soccer game. In this topic I was instructed to complete multiple tasks that involved some simple pause, play and rewind buttons, along with some harder tasks that involved multiple moving objects, timing of the objects and making it all look good. After finishing the tasks I was instructed to make an animation of what ever I wanted. It could be a hobby of mine, a sport I enjoyed or even a few small animations that showed that I knew my way around flash. 

The software package- 
     flashes software package makes frame by frame animation. The software is very simple and easy to use when your a first time user. In this software you can produce or import objects onto frames then make new frames to follow, In order to produce an animation. As it quickly goes through the frames, it gives the illusion of a film/ animation.


Folio/ Assignment task- 
     The folio just involved the completion of set task in a flash animation book. These task were simple and easy but they helped with understanding what the software was capable of. Here are some simple examples of some of the tasks set:


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A very simple clock animation.

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Here is a great example of shape morphing. 

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Combination of all the skills we have learnt in the previous skills

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 My assignment task-
     The assignment task was to make an animation of anything we wanted, promoting a made up company. Before we started, we had to decide what the company name would be and an animation idea that would collaboration with the company name. While thinking about all of this, we had to consider how well the skills we had learnt could be used in our assignment. For my assignment, I chose to make a golf animation. Mainly because I am interested about golf and I play it as a sport. Here is the final animation that I completed:

Golf productions

Personal review of the unit-
     I absolutely enjoyed learning Flash, it was a great subject to learn and I would be happy to do it again. When i was learning Flash, the tasks that were given to me were very helpful in the learning curve of understanding this software. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is eager to learn skills for simple animations.

Level of enjoyment-
     When I was learning Flash animations for the first time, I found it was not as fun and not as easy as I anticipated. But as i got further through the tasks i started to really enjoy this software. As i went onto the assignment task, where i could create what ever i wanted, It increased the enjoyment of the unit. The enjoyment of this unit, for me would definitely 8.5/10, it was a great unit and I recommend it to anyone who is possibly interested in animations.

Future directions-
     I can not see Flash becoming a widely used software for professional use but it is a great software for teaching people that would like to understand how to make animations.

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