ITA Flash...day 3?

Today I woke up with a stomach ache...hooray? Another early Saturday, another wait for the bathroom. Mom's in the bathroom for, like 15 minutes with no sound to be heard coming from within. I think to myself, "WT-FUDGE!"

It was snowing, so we departed earlier than normal, maybe like one minute earlier. Dad stops at McDonalds and wastes five minutes behind some old guy in the order-line.

At ITA we went over what we learned last session. Yes...Like every session we always review. The topics we reviewed were motion tweens, object animation, and we also had a small lecture from AJ. It consisted of the basics of motion tweening and OBJECTS. There are two types of Objects, Shapes and Symbols where Shapes are objects that cannot be selected as a whole as easily as the Symbols. Symbols are objects that are imported straight into the library, allowing the users of Flash to use it, abuse it, and motion tween it, like we did today.

My Flash froze just as I was about to save the Flash file into my folder, inside the network drive. So yeah....no files....But a screenshot! But unfortunatly I cannot upload becuase the screenshot is being lame.

Flash Animation Day Two

Another Saturday, another workday at ITA. Woke up to the sound of silence with the bathroom door closed, and locked with the lights on. Thinking once again..."Mom's doing make-up and wasting time in the bathroom again!"

So...Today at ITA we started off with a quiz (like always) that tested our memory of the stuff we learned last time. I forgot what the term 'nesting' was so I just guessed on that. Bryce, sitting next to me, was not here last session so he basically copied me. (haha). Afterward, we began to review motion tween, libraries, symbols and all that other stuff. We were given the entire class time to create a short close-to-five-second animation of a fish in some sort of watery environment. I created a pink whale which was supposed to suck/eat up some green fish-thing, but it was a fail. Apparantly, Adobe Flash CS3 thought half circles were rectangles, and hand-drawn "w's" were squares.

Attatched is a screenshot of my work in Adobe Flash. Wow....All this time and I only got this. Damn.