Video Product 'Joe and Alien'

Project Aim: Explain how does the human brain work to young children by interesting animation and arouse their curiosity to learn human biology.

Presentation PPT

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Tutorial Notice

Dear groupmates,

As we all know, in order to have more time to animate our Flash, so we would like to change the date of tutorial.

Now, here is the reply from Kat about changing the date of tutorial :
7 July, 2010(Wed), 2:00pm.

Please do some preparation before the tutorial.

Background-Park

(Ellis: the same problem - too complicated, disorderly and confused. try to draw the easy graphic picture or shape and set the right color scheme. Also decrease the grayscale of background. PS. the public cannot see your swf file)

(小漩: Thank you for your reply. I try to draw the pictures in a more simple way, but I would like to keep the color scheme as it could show the sunshine of daytime.)

(Ellis: Please don't mind, but i think the color scheme has problem. For example, the color of tree's highlight is not suitable, it would not appear. you can keep the concept of sunshine mood, but please do more layer and adjust the grayscale and choose the suitable color.)

Dear groupmates,

I have created the Park backgroud, please take a look and give me feedback or comment.

(if you cannot watch the SWF, Please CLICK the movie!)

Materials for design reference

Dear Groupmates,

I hope these materials can be a useful reference for our Flash design and animation development.

Materials for Design Reference

Background_analysis

Background Analysis (Blog)

Concept 1 - Wonderful Experiment

Presentation Board (Blog)

Reference_Book_小漩

馬瑟斯 (Mathers, Douglas.), (1994) .《我們的身體 : 腦 》
邦謝特里 (Benchetrit, Andre.), (2008) .《沒有大腦, 會發生什麼事?》
曹恩受, (2004) .《大腦夢工廠》
Barille, Albert.,( 1993).《指揮管制中樞 : 腦》
布賴恩 (Bryan, Jenny.), (2002) .《透視腦的奧秘》

Flash_Exercise_(小漩)

Self-Evaluation:

I fulfilled a lot after finishing this Flash animation exercise. I have experienced doing an animation with traditional method (without using Bone Tool) in pervious project, so I was not so strange to do this exercise so much at first. But when I accomplished the exercise step by step with the handout, I found that there were quite a lot procedures I had done wrong in the past. In this flash exercise, I had a chance to learn how to animate a character in a right way by using outline, file naming, shortcut key, keyframes setting, and timing editing.
We could animate a character with Bone Tool, but there is some limitation. For instance, we couldn’t accomplish a complex movement by only using Bone Tool since a disorder of movement will happen. On the contrary, if we animate a character with traditional method(without using Bone Tool), we could adjust the poses by setting the keyframes in the timeline. It is easier to accomplish a complex movement.
Comparing with two methods, I think that there is quite a difference between traditional method and Bone Tool. Bone Tool is suitable for animating simple movements, but traditional method is also suitable for animating the complex movements.

1st Meeting Minutes

Minutes (1st Meeting)

Proposal

SD3026 Kat Gp3 Proposal (Blog)

Detailed Schedule

Dear All,

I have uploaded the detailed schedule to blog's calendar, please check it carefully when you log in. If there is any change, please write down what you have changed on the blog, so that we could find a good solution together.

Thnak you.

Contact Methods

I post the 'Contact List' on the blog in case you miss the file I have sent. You could download the list from : http://www.sendspace.com/file/lijif5

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Assignment Download link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o5kt8s

Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hHJpymPkh8