The Happy Lion Conductor
This Flash movie has been completed as an assignment ("the Conductor") 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 current version of the software.
In this Flash movie, the image of the main hero, the Happy Lion Conductor, has been created using the traditional frame-by-frame animation technique, with Paint Brush, Bucket, Transform and Selection tools; the dancing Sunflower is an animated Graphic Symbol copied and pasted from another Flash file; and the other images (the announcer and the spectators) are bitmap .jpeg files imported into the Library and used in various Layers of the Timeline panel.
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About animated Graphic Symbol ...
The Ballet of the Sunflower project has been created in Flash; first, the parts of the Sunflower image have been created and animated in several Layers; next, the frames of all Layers containing the parts have been selected and converted into a Graphic Symbol stored in the Library, which could be inserted into a new Layer, resized and rotated.
The Ballet of the Sunflower project has been created in Flash; first, the parts of the Sunflower image have been created and animated in several Layers; next, the frames of all Layers containing the parts have been selected and converted into a Graphic Symbol stored in the Library, which could be inserted into a new Layer, resized and rotated.
About cleaning up scanned sketches and painting it with colors ...
To clean up the dusts and scratches of a scanned sketch, the easiest tools to use include Level, Brightness and Contrast, and Curves under the from the Adjustment submenu of the Image menu and the Eraser Tool from the Tools palette. To paint some areas with colors in the image, I used the Magic Wand, Lesso, or Polygonal Lesso tools to select the area, and the Brush tool with a soft brush and various Size and Opacity settings to produce desired effects. |
Figure HLC-6. To update the image, I double-clicked the image item in the Library panel to open the Bitmap Properties window, and clicked the Update button. If the Update action occurs during the same session when the image is imported, it will automatically update; otherwise, clicking the Update button will open the Import Bitmap window to select the edited image from the location where it is stored, as shown in Figure HLC-8.
Figure HLC-7. In the Import Bitmap window that opened when I clicked the Update button (Figure HLC-7), I navigated to the folder where the edited image was located, click-selected it and clicked the Open button; the Import Bitmap window closed; next, I clicked the OK button in the Bitmap Properties window (shown in Figure HLC-7) to dismiss the window and complete the Update action.
Figure HLC-9. Screen shots of scenes in the Happy Lion Conductor Flash movie.
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