Animation of Flick Flack Part 5

I have now finished 9 frames of my animation. This is everything that I have so far:

Animation of Flick Flack Part 4

I continued work on the animation and I made the next two frames of the animation. I also added a floor into the animation. This is so that I can see easily what I am doing and that he is not landing further down that he started of.

Animation of Flack Flack Part 3

I worked on the animation again today and I managed to finish two more frames in my animation. I also tried to see what happens when I save my animation as a movie. It looked really nice but it is still a little fast. I am not going to change this again in flash because otherwise it is going to become a very big file. I can always slow it down in iMovie, which I am going to have to do anyway.

The next two frames were a little harder to do because the animated person really changed position so I had to make a lot of changes to the whole body. This meant that I had to pick up every part of him individually and then move that. I also had to change some part of his body like his back. I had to make it more hollow because that is what happens. I am still very happy with the way it looks.

Animation of Flick Flack Part 2

Today I continued to work on the animation and I managed to finish the first frame that I had nearly completed yesterday and make the next two frames as well. It was a little hard in the beginning because I didn't know how to change the background because I had set the trace I had made as background. I wanted to keep the pictures because if I would delete them then if I would want change something later I would have to insert the picture all over again. I found that I could put the pictures in another layer and then I can just have the picture as a background and I can always easily come back to it.

These are pictures of the frames I managed to finish. I also checked the speed of the animation because I didn't know how fast it was. It turned out that the animation was 0.2 seconds long so I changed that and made it normal speed so that it was easy to see the flip. In IMovie I will always be able to low it down or speed it up.

These are the two new frames that I managed to make.

As you can see on the pictures the drawings that I made on flash for my animation are not exactly like what I traces from the video I had. This is because in flash I am just going to use the body parts and move them around. The movement is going to look the same but it is just that sometimes in the video Robin moves further away and therefore becomes smaller. I am keeping the size of my animation the same so that is why it looks a little different. However, when you take away the picture in the background is looks very normal.

Animation of Flick Flack

Today I started my animation of the flick flack. I made the flash file and I first tried out the program because I had forgotten where all the buttons were. Once I knew how it worked I took the traces I had made of the frames I took from my video and put them into the flash file. I then used this to trace the man I had drawn.

This was sometimes a little difficult because I need a lot of complex shapes and it is not possible to draw them with the mouse. This meant that I had to take an oval shape and pull the sides of the oval to change the shape.

I nearly managed to finish the first frame of the man who is just standing. Once I have finished that I can just take his different body parts and move them around. I will not have to redraw the man every time. The other frames with therefore go a lot faster because I don't have to draw him all over again.

This is a picture of how far I got with drawing the first frame. I have nearly finished and I only have to finish of his legs and then I can move onto the next frame.

Audio in Video

I added in a song for the first part of the video where I show some examples of freerunning. I didn't know what song to use because I am very bad at matching songs with videos because I have to hear the song together with the video to make a decision. I am also very picky so that is also very hard. I started with songs I thought of myself but they all didn't fit so then I looked at freerunning videos to see what songs they used. I finally found one song that really fitted well and I am happy with it.

I added it into the video and made it fit with the video. I tried to make some of the flips land on a loud beat and I managed two but that is very hard. I made it fit to the video and I am very happy with it. I can't put the soundtrack on the blog so I don't have it to listen to.

I also added the edited version of the text I wrote. I added the introduction to freerunning, the explanation of the side flip and the explanation of the wall flip. For the explanation on what freerunning is, I am going to film myself to add a bit of variation into the video. I am planning to do that soon and then I have finished everything around the main part of my video.

New edited text for Video

I edited the text for the video to make it all correct and easy to understand so that it is ready to put into the video.

First Draft of Intro Text for Video

I wrote the first draft of the audio for the video. It is where I introduce the video and summarize what I am going to say in the video, explain what free running is, explain the side flip, explain the wall flip and show the back handspring and explain how it works.

I wrote this draft and edited it a little. It is all still quite brief and I think that I will still have to make some changes to it. I also don't want to make it too long because I need to leave enough time for my explanation of the back handspring.