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.

What I Did Today & Important Things to Remember

     I created a button (stoplight) and I inserted the play action into it. I also inserted a stop action at the beginning of the animation and at the end. Lastly, I inserted the goto action into the reset button at the end of the animation.

Important Things to Remember

     When creating a button, you have to put in a Hit area in order for the button to work. When inserting an action into any button, you have to make sure you are in the correct frame and layer, but you also have to make sure that you select the button itself. To confirm that you have the button selected, look at the bottom of the Actions window; the name of the button should be displayed (it should be the name itself without any numbers at the end).

5 Things That I Learned Today

1. I learned how to open the Actions window.
2. I learned how to activate the Script Assist.
3. I learned how to insert play into the script.
4. I learned how to insert stop into the script.
5. I learned how to edit a button, and what Up, Over, Down, and Hit mean.

How To Create A Movie Clip

1. Select the object that you want to make into a movie clip.
     Note: If the object is part of a graphic (picture) follow these steps first:
          1. Select the graphic and go to Modify (In the menu bar), then click Break Apart.

          2. Deselect the graphic, then select the area of the graphic that you want to make into a movie clip.

2. Move the object to an unused area away from the graphic, then go to Modify, then Convert to Symbol.
3. Name the object whatever you want to name it. Click on the drop-down list in Type and select Movie Clip. Click OK.
4. The object is now a movie clip.

Applying it to an Animation
1. The movie clip should appear in the Library, and the object that you converted should still be on stage.
2. To animate the movie clip, double-click the gear symbol next to its name in the Library.
3. It will appear on a blank stage by itself. Here you can apply whatever you want. You can make it rotate if you want.
     To make it rotate, select the movie clip and go to Insert, then Motion Tween. Select the motion tween in the Timeline (You can make it longer or shorter if you want), then go to Properties, then Rotation and insert a number of times that you want the movie clip to rotate. You can then pick which way you want it to rotate (CW = Clockwise; CCW = Counter-Clockwise).
4. Once you're done, click on Scene 1 (At the top) which will take you back to the graphic.
5. Move the movie clip to where you want it to be on the graphic. You can insert more copies of the movie clip by dragging it from the Library.
6. Once they're in place, select the entire graphic, including the movie clips.
7. Go to Insert, then Motion Tween. Click yes if it asks you to convert it to a symbol.
8. Now you can make it last longer or shorter and you can move it to where you want it to go.
9. Go to Control Movie, then Test Movie. Everything should work.

Congratulations! You created a Movie Clip!

Moving Frame-by-Frame Animation (5 W's)

Who
     For my moving frame-by-frame animation, I am going to make a child play hopscotch. The child is going to be a stick figure. I am thinking about making it a little girl with pigtails.

What
     The ground and background are going to be big that way it could look like the child is jumping across the ground.

When
     The animation takes place during the day. I am going thinking about making clouds move across the sky while the child is moving.


Where
     The child is going to be jumping across concrete and the background is going to be made of houses.

Why
     The child wants to have fun, why else? Oh, and I just came up with the idea randomly, nothing much to it...

Animation Comments

Butterfly Animation

     I like how simple it is and the fact that it has a background. The only thing that I think should be fixed is the very last frame that is blank. It shouldn't be blank.

Hobo To Megaman vs. Monster

     The image has a background, so I didn't like that. Also I have no idea of what happened and it seemed like a whole bunch of subliminal messages were being shown, but overall, I liked it!

Soccerball Hits Goalpost
     Very simple but it only has one object moving, not two. I didn't like this one as much as the first two.

Dragon (Elaine) Animation
     Not much happened and I didn't know of what to think about it. It was too simple, so I didn't like it very much.

Mushrooms
     Very simple, but nicely done. I like the choices of movement for the objects, and the fact that there were more than two objects. 

Leapfrog
     I made it, so therefore I like it!

Mario and Karate Kid

     The images weren't properly edited in fireworks. Towards the end, I don't know what is happening. However, I like the images.

Star and Heart Animation
     I like the images that the creator used. I also like the motion paths that they used, so overall, I like it.

Penguin and Bee Animation
     I like the images, but I didn't really enjoy the motion paths that the creator used. I didn't really like it as much as the others.

Bat and Basketball Animation

     This animation didn't seem like much work was put into it. I didn't really like it at all.

Gargoyle and Chicken Animation

     I really like the story behind this animation. Very well done; I like it!

Dragon Fried Chicken (DFC)
     I got a good chuckle out of this one. I like it.

5 Main Aspects Of My Animation

    The five main things that I used to make my animation work are motion tween, rotation, flip, preset, and ease. I used motion tween to make my characters play leapfrog. Rotation was used to make the characters rotate while they were jumping around. I mainly used the Flip Horizontal command to make the characters face the opposite direction so that they could jump around the stage more. I used one preset (multiple-bounce preset) to make a few boxes fall from the top of the stage. I used ease on every motion tween to make the characters slow down before they landed.

Motion Tween & Shape Tween

Similarities
~~Motion tween and shape tween both make an object move.
~~In order to work, both of them need to have keyframes in the layers that they are going to be used in.
~~Motion tweens and shape tweens can use ease.
~~The creator needs to determine which direction they want the tween to go.
~~Motion tween and shape tween can move jerky if you use a few frames.
~~Motion tweens and shape tweens can look blurry if you use a lot of frames.
~~You can copy the motion for both motion tweens and shape tweens.
~~Both tweens can change color.
~~Both tweens can change size.
~~You can't have both tweens on the same frame.


Differences
~~In order to use motion tween, you need to convert the object to a symbol.
~~Shape tweens can use shape hints; motion tween don't.
~~The frames that motion tweens are applied to are filled in with the color blue.
~~The frames that shape tweens are applied to are filled in with the color green and have a black arrow pointing to the right.
~~You can make objects morph using shape tweens. Motion tweens don't morph.

Compare & Contrast (Early Animation & Flash/Modern Animation)

   Although early animation and flash animation are different, they have some similarities. For one, both types of animation used the same ideal of using frames. However, in early animations, people had to draw out every single frame to create the illusion of movement. In flash animations people simply set the settings of how they want an object to move and their programs will automatically do it for them.
   Flash animations use drawings too but early animators used chalkboards and ink pens. Mostly because they obviously did not have computers or pencils back then. Early animations also had a different style of characters than the style that modern animators have. Flash animations can be made in a much, much shorter time than early animations. Early animations took a lot more time and effort. Stop-motion animation is used in both early works of animation and modern works of animation.

   All in all, modern animation is a lot easier to make than the animations from back then.

How To Create A Motion Tween

1. Create a shape.
2. Highlight the shape and then right-click on it. Click on Create Motion Tween.
3. Now that you have created the tween, drag the shape to the location that you want it to go to.
4. A line should appear with dots along it. This is the path and each dot is a frame.
5. You can manipulate the line and change where you want the shape to go just by dragging the line itself.
6. At the bottom of the screen is the timeline. The tween is the blue part of the multiple blank squares.
7. You can make the tween last longer or shorter by clicking and dragging the edge of the blue part.

That is how you create a basic motion tween.

What I Learned About Copyright

I learned that the copyright laws protect people from having their work stolen from them. It also punishes those who steal original works from others.

I realized that Brian is 100% wrong because:
   1. He said that she didn't register a copyright, but in reality she doesn't have to register it, she got the copyright as soon as she created the poem.
   2. He said that she gave him the poem as a gift, but in fact she shared a COPY with him, she didn't give him the original.
   3. He said that the copyright would have expired, actually a copyright lasts for the entire life of the owner and 70 years after.

All in all, you can't use someone else's stuff without permission, regardless of what or where it is.

Copyright Vocabulary

Copyright - Protects works from being stolen or plagiarized. (Only to things that are real and can be worked with, no thoughts)

Fair Use - States how much you can use a copyrighted material without permission.

First Sale Doctrine - Allows the person who buys the copyright to do whatever they want with the material as long as no additional copies are made.

Intellectual Property - Intangible (from your imagination)

Patent - (For a limited time) Something that only allows you to use your new invention. Nobody else can use it.

Permission - The owner allows you to reprint or reproduce a copyright material.

Phonorecord - Allows you to play, record, and store music in a digital format on computers or other devices.

Plagiarism - Stealing ideas and passing them off as your own. Also using another person's idea without crediting them.

Public Domain - Copyright protection that has expired and works that are created by a government employee.

Trademark - Word or symbol that identifies a product or company. (Apple's apple, McDonald's arches, Nike's checkmark, etc.)

Copyright Song Story Questions

1. Is Brian right? I believe that Brian is legally right because although he may have "stolen" it from her, she does not have any sort of copyright to back up her argument that she is the one who wrote the song.
    Yet I also believe that Brian is morally wrong because he knows that she wrote the song but he took the credit for it.

2. What should Sarah do? I don't exactly know what she can do other than show the original written form of the poem, but since she didn't get any copyrights and it's been years since she wrote it, people may think that she is copying Brian and trying to take the credit for it instead of it being the other way around. She could talk to a lawyer and take this case to a courthouse or keep on negotiating with Brian until he gives her royalties in return.