Purpose and Benefits of Storyboarding

1. Organizes your ideas.
2. Visual representation of what your animation should somewhat look like.
3. You're not wasting your time by guessing what you're going to do next.
4. You can edit scenes easily.
5. You can get feedback from people.

What Would You Create?

I would possibly create a police chase or maybe a game of dodgeball between a few kids. Maybe I can create a sort of battle between two characters. I do want to make my animation funny no matter what it is. I will most likely not include sound in my animation, mainly because I don't want to take the time to record it. I'm not quite sure which one to do though.

What I Learned Today

I learned:
1. How to make an interactive animation.
2. How to properly use Movie Clips with bone structures.
3. How to use Motion Tweens and Ease when using it on a bone structure.

What I Can Add To My Animation:
I can make my dog's tail wag by making the tail a Movie Clip. I can make the dog move by putting a Motion Tween on it. Lastly, I can publish it so I can interact with it.

What I Learned Yesterday That Helped Me Today

Yesterday, I learned about the bone structure. More specifically, I learned that some of the objects won't work properly if there aren't certain parts in between them. For example, the dog I made today worked perfectly from the front part of it (the head, the ear, and the front leg). However, the back part didn't work right because I didn't have a hip object. The tail would go far off from the body and the leg didn't look connected. When I put the hip in, the tail and the back leg worked better.

New Seating Chart

What I Can Gain
What I can gain from the new seating arrangement is more social skills. I normally only speak to a select few people so being in a new seating arrangement forces me to interact with people I don't normally talk to. It brings me out of my comfort zone, so that's a good thing right?

What I Can Give
What I can give to people in the new seating arrangement is assistance. I can help them in work that they can't do and possibly teach them something new.

Grades Below 50

I don't have any grades below a 50 but I do have one below an 80. Personally, any grades below an 80 are bad. I remember rushing through that assignment because I wanted to get two assignments done on the same day. I didn't finish one because I get very easily distracted while I'm reading so that made me have to finish two assignments in one day. Also, I vaguely remember being distracted during that assignment too, so that caused some problems.
About my distractions, it wasn't the students, I get distracted because I either stop reading and just stare at the paper or I start daydreaming randomly. The funny thing is that my brain does it automatically, I don't think about it. Strange isn't it?

Where I Would Put A Sound

I would put police sirens into my Catch The Burglar animation.

I would start by inserting a new layer. This layer would be named "policesound". I would import a police siren sound into my library, then click on the first frame of the policesound layer. Next, I would drag-and-drop the sound file onto my stage.
For a button
I would create the button. Next, I would edit the button by double-clicking it. Then I would create a new layer. I would name this layer "sound". I would insert a keyframe into the Down frame. Next, I would drag-and-drop the sound onto the stage. Then I would go back to the scene and test the movie.

Give Me 5

5 Things I Know
1. I know how to change the magnification.
2. I know how to display, collapse, and group panels.
3. I know how to test the movies.
4. I know how to change the document height and background color.
5. I know how to insert new layers.

5 Things I Forgot and Then Remembered
1. I remembered how to change the heighth and/or width of an object using the Properties panel.
2. I remembered how to add motion presets.
3. I remembered how to change the view of the Timeline.
4. I remembered how to properly use the Paint Bucket tool.
5. I remembered how to use the Align options on the Modify menu.

5 Things I Learned
1. I learned how to display a preview of the object thumbnails in the Timeline.
2. I learned how to publish movies.
3. I learned how to use the Rectangle Primitive tool.
4. I learned how to use the Ink Bottle tool.
5. I learned how to use the Object Drawing option.