Week 12...Flash Continued

This past week we spent our time in class creating two bouncing ball animations. On Monday we were introduced to the basics of Flash. I knew that Flash would be a challenging program to work with; however, I did not realize how tedious it can be. It is very important to get everything done in an orderly manner when working with Flash. I had a very hard time remembering all of the steps, for example when adding key frames or adjusting how fast objects move. This resulted in lots of mistakes and frustration, but in the end I was happy with my final bouncing ball animation.

On Monday, when we created our first animation, I was not pleased with the path that my ball was following. It appeared unrealistic in my opinion minus the addition of the squash and stretch motion. On Thursday we learned that we can draw actual paths that an object will follow. Using that technique was much easier and created a much more realistic motion.