Here are all the shots that I completed in Flash for our 30 second film project, making up exactly half the amount of animation required for the film. I also designed all the storyboards and many backgrounds for the film, as well as contributing to the storyline, providing some sound effects and performing one of the character voices (the angry father). Crafting the storyline was probably the most fun to work with, since the poem I chose, "The Time I Like Best", had plenty of potential and strong material for me to translate onto film. Flash was chosen as the animation software for the film since our initial choice of software, CelAction, kept crashing and was unable to import the files/rigs we needed. We wanted the film to be animated in 2D since our film was Christmas-themed and 2D can be used to create imaginative worlds away from real-life, and offers a cozy, warm Christmas theme. Although animated in stop-motion replicating 2D, the recent 2013 John Lewis Christmas advert could be an example of this. Flash was fun to work with although I had to remind myself how to use the software, after not using it for a long time!
Link to video here: https://vimeo.com/80738700
The above video contains all the shots I worked on for "The Time I Like Best". The password to view the above video is uclan. The last shot in the video was rendered incorrectly since I was working with a different computer which is not compatible with QuickTime. However, the render errors present in the final clip demonstrate why we chose against CelAction for our final film, since we came across this problem every time we worked with the software. This shot was rendered again on another computer more successfully, and has been used in the final film.
