The bone tool in flash

The bone tool in actionscript 3:

so for this afternoon Julian was teaching us about the bone tool in flash cs6 with as3:

the bone tool makes things easier to animate such as models you have made in flash and for this we made a body with arms legs hands and a body and we taken a face of someone cut it out and put the model together, then using the bone tool I linked up the limbs and added constraints.




The circles you can see are transparent but come up as blue and these were used for places to move the body so the head, the left arm and the right arm.















the constrains stopped the limbs from moving too far so this basically added some realism to the body, these are the settings used on the bones:


enabling the joint rotation meant that I was able to constrain the limbs to stop them from moving too far, the minimum and maximum setting was how far in angles that you could move the limbs.


of course the constrains aren't really needed but it does just add some realism to it to stop them from moving to far, however when first sorting out the constrains I changed them a few times to see what would work the best and what would I guess seem more realistic to stop the limbs from moving too far and too little.


this is a link to the tutorial I used:

part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8jABrWhfw

part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_XI0lpJO7o

link to the .swf:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk5rqpr1c31amo0/Untitled-1.swf

Spinning cube

Today we worked more with adobe after effects and we made a cube and animated it so it would spin move positions, we used different tools and in this one we used the camera orbit tool to move around the shape to make the actual cube, we also used the "pickwhip" which could link all the shapes into 1 null object which was helpful when animating, I think the pickwhip tool is like a group tool so you can add all the layers to 1 object.

Another tool we used was the transform tool inside the layers to change and edit the shape during the animation, changing the shape the positioning and the size of the cube.


The hardest part about this was actually making the cube and positioning them all correctly so it looked like a cube.

downloads page

so for the downloads ive added a link to an amazon page where you can buy the amazing spiderman however getting it to work was a big pain considering.

First I tried to get the link working so when you clicked on a picture it would open to an external link, but after trying a few different ideas still nothing and that was getting me kind of frustrated in the fact it wasn't working, so then I just decided ok I'll just have to use text, and I know its nothing fancy and it annoyed me that I couldn't make it look nicer but i'm just glad it's working.

Flash work

So today i've been working on making the .fla file smaller and trying to add a video and some background music to the website, so with the size I started with 18.3mb and after a bit of frustration and finally figuring out what I needed to do I was able to shrink that down to just over 3mb and I managed this because I was able to compress the images and cleaned up the library in my .fla file to make it smaller, now all I need to do is add the music and try to get the video in the website without messing up the size of the site, however this will be difficult because the video is over 11mb and the music is over 6mb so I'm going to try and find out how to compress the files to make the website not increase in size.

so the video actually didn't change the size so right now my website is around 3.65mb with 2 videos in,  one on the main page and the other on the images and video page, they are both trailers for the amazing spiderman.

I have decided not to add music as it would make the file size too large and I didn't want to try and figure something out for an hour when I could be working on other parts of this assignment.

general flash work update

So for the film website I've been working more with flash and I've been looking at how to make a preloader for the website, so I decided the best way to find out how to make one is to go onto youtube and see if I could find a tutorial and I did:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hYleZge40

So I've been following that tutorial and for the loader vector I used an amazing spider man spider:

before I got to this stage I had to crop the image, use the magic wand tool to get rid of the black background and make the spider smaller.