The Explorer

I had to sacrifice a lot of ideas due to not knowing how to do it and time constraints. Animate takes a lot of time to do even the smallest of things so a day can go by quickly when its not co-operating. I wanted to add thing liked pop up dialogue boxes that talk more about that animal. I also wanted to create animations including animals that move around the scene. This would have provided more of a story and created a deeper feeling of exploration. I couldn't get the scene to the kind of ratio i wanted it to be so it feels very compact and seeing certain animations can be difficult due to the detail in them. I used tutorials from class and the work we did to create the overall animation. I tried to find out coding to get other things to work but had no luck. This included the looping movie clips as i wanted them to only play once when the character walked passed. The lamb character took several attempts to do due to limbs randomly going missing during the animating phase and ...

I am happy with the animate event ideas i had prior to starting to create the animation. Some of those seemed a little tricky so have decided to stick with some small events just to make sure i get them right and functional. The problem i seem to be having now is how to get some animations to only play through once when triggered. I have explored some code online but not found much that works. I have tried applying it to different layers at various stages but the animation continues to loop when triggered.

To make my scene, I started off with the photos I had taken from the farm and drew over them in photoshop to get the final colours and objects for the scene. I then took these 2 images and composed them in photoshop to form the layout for my scene. I spent a couple of hours hand drawing and texturing everything. I didn’t want to use images as textures as I wanted to keep the image looking drawn. I plan to use this as my background in animate and will be the scene in which the lamb will walk around in. I have created the lamb and its walking cycle, including a standing state. I have tried the code from the Terminator work but it appears to just create errors. I will work on getting the code to work in order to make the lamb and background move. After this, I will begin making objects for the scene and the animated events.