The Ballet of the Sunflower
This Flash movie has been completed as an assignment ("the Flower Dance") in the Animation 218 (Fundamentals of Animation) taught in the Spring 2014 semester at East Los Angeles College by Professor Michael Libonati. It is the first Flash movie that I have successfully completed using the Graphic Symbol tool in current version of the software.
In this Flash movie, the image of the main hero, the Sunflower, has been created using the traditional frame-by-frame animation technique, with Paint Brush, Bucket, Transform and Selection tools. Parts of the Sunflower have been created in different Layers of the Timeline panel and animated with traditional frame-by-frame technique, the most appropriate technique to animate parts of and image with constantly changing shapes; all relevant frames in their Layers have then been selected and converted into an animated Graphic Symbol, which can be inserted into a new Layer and globally edited with the Transform and other tools and settings. All other graphic elements are imported .png or .jpeg image files.
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Figure BS-1. Various poses of the dancing Sunflower.
Figure BS-2. To create the animated image of the turbulent water, a digital photo of a water fountain has been processed into five versions of water waves, using the Liguify tool from the Filter menu and the Warp tool from the Transform submenu of the Edit menu in Photoshop. The .jpeg files have been imported into the Library of the Flash file, and inserted into five key frames on a special Layer; the key frames were then copied, pasted and reversed, to create the illusion of a fast-moving turbulent water pond.
Figure BS-3. Digital images of rocks processed in Photoshop with the Poster Edges tool from the Filters menu to create a line art illustration effect, saved as .png files after the removal of unneeded background with the Eraser tool from the Tools palette.
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