button, button, who has the button

Sadly, it is late, I waited too late to get help, and now I can't figure out why these animations and buttons aren't working the way I want them to.....

I should have gotten a copy of CS4 when I had the chance. I had no idea how different they were until the past week and could really use it.

overloaded

So it has been a busy and stressful few weeks with 4 exams and 2 projects all due within a week of each other... but heres a recap with pictures of what I have been developing and working on for this flash project!

This was my first attempt at the interactive flash, going from the lyrics from Bouncing Soul's "True Believers". The lyrics reminded me of something like a journal entry, so I wanted to plce them in an old worn-out looking book. Sadly, I couldn't get animations to work right... I wanted the pages to rip away to show new images and words, but couldn't get them to rip right, or cut right to rip and make it look realistic. While working on this I heard a new song that gave me some ideas... even though there was only a week left of classes to do it.

I then started working with lyrics from the song "Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious" by Against Me!. For this idea, I wanted to go with a political aspect of segregation and seperation of high class of politics (all parties) with the poor.

Slowly developing ideas for the characters...

elite and the dispossessed

Later on in the piece when it talks about wars

deciphering SCRIPTures

Well, more script than scriptures, but thats what it feels like working with this flash stuff.

It seems like no matter what I try my first idea wouldn't work the right way... Now after spending hours putting together and thinking up my 2nd idea, I'm in the same situation again... but with a lot less time. Trying to make a journal with interactive type and pages being torn/crumbled away for the button actions isn't going anywhere...

Sunday = a full day dedicated to possibly rethinking my flash again and studying for my back2back exams on Monday :(

Forgetful Freddy

I now notice why I never had a blog before this... because I always forget about it and never really update a whole lot.

So I now have a pretty solid idea of where my interactive flash is going. I want to make it look a lot like a journal type of entry and was planning to do everything with pictures, but I do not have the time nor skill to pull something like that off right now.

The lyrics make me think of a journal entry when I read them, so I wanted it to have that feel as well. When changing to the next set of words, I want to do creative things like rip certain parts of the page away, cruble them up, cut them, burn parts of them, basically try to do some creative changes that relate to the lyrics. I'll have sketches of that and possibly a little clip by sunday night!

true believers

so after listening to many songs and reading through many of their lyrics, I've narrowed it down to a few Bouncing Souls songs. The main one I like of the 3 has been a song I've known and loved since it came out about 8 or 9 years ago. It has some of my favorite lyrics out of any song or band I've heard and feel it is a great song many can relate to! Now I just need to figure out how to make it more interactive...

True Believers

"I've met some people along the way,

Some of them split some of them stay,

Some of them walk some walk on by,

I've got a few friends I'll love till I die

From all of these people I try to learn,

Some of them shine some of them burn,

Some of them rise some of them fall,

For good or bad I've known them all

We live our life in our own way,

Never really listened to what they say,

The kind of faith that doesn't fade away

We are the true believers"

typ-o-graph-y

I have no idea what to think of or do for our next project...

I am listening to song after song for lyrics to try and think up something interactive and have no clue where to really start with any of it...

I guess I'll continue to listen to The Bouncing Souls and see where that takes me!

Progress!

So I am starting to make the scene and snails for my flash... these are the 2 ideas I've narrowed it down too. I think I am going with the 2nd one because after looking at the first one a few times it reminds me of multiple artists that use this idea (exploding dog, dan paladin, etc) and the 2nd looks a little more original and unique.

Any suggestions or ideas?? Any thoughts on what he will be doing for that minute hike to his gal?

Here is what might be my final pick for my snail. I made a few designs for different eyes he will have in the flash. Now I need to work on the mouths and motions...