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...

Snailing along

So after some thought and experience with flash, I came up with a new idea to use for my "Time" project.

It is an idea involving 2 snails, a boy and girl... and th

e boy snail is trying to get to his girlfriend across the street. That is about all I have to work with so far, but I'm open and could use some ideas so it isn't just him running from one screen to the other! I think I may do something with the sun rising and setting as he goes, and by the time he gets to her it can be sunset and I could try something like fireworks shooting into the evening then stars start to pop out... any ideas on what could happen to him on his journey to her??

Time... to get to work!

So I've been thinking about what to do for my flash video relating to time.

I felt I had 2 solid ideas, but after discussing them and drawing them out to plan how I wanted to do it, I'm not sure if they will work out as well. I wanted to do something with a cartoony feeling to it. I want it to be fun to make and not feel like another assignment. I love to have fun drawing random humorous things, and this could be a good start to bringing some of my sketches further than just some little drawing on the back of my notebook.

One idea I had involved a godzilla/giant dinosaur thing attacking a city. While it is going on I'd have it jump scenes to a little old man enjoying himself in the park. The scenes with the dinosaur would have intense,

energetic music and the scenes with the old man in the park would be calm, even quiet with like birds lightly chirping. It would go back and forth from chaos to calm, until at the end the old man would eat a banana and drop the peel. This would combine the 2 stories because shortly after the dinosaur would slip on it and knock himself unconscious. The idea was fun and the type of thing I wanted, but I guess I need to look into a few more ideas.

So we are now starting a flash animation project, and even though I have a very vague idea of what I want to try and do, I'm pretty excited to learn the program a little better. The idea has to revolve around time so I was drawing up 2 ideas. I'll update more when I have some sketch ideas drawn out.

Until then, check out these 2 AMAZING animated music videos by Streetlight Manifesto for some inspiration.

Would You Be Impressed

We Will Fall Together

**EDIT**

I just found a link from the Flash facebook page to adobe tv that has over 250 hours of free sessions. Pretty handy when trying to learn this shtuff!

Adobe TV

Rock N Roll

My website!

So... after many struggles and discoveries my website has finally been uploaded. It is somewhat under construction... I still need to figure out a gallery for my thumbnails and have a few more things to upload and fix. Might possibly change the color and add some different graphics or faces around the boarder also. Thoughts? Comments?

still under construction

Well, the site is slowly coming into place. Still trying to figure out DW and div tags, but I'm getiing the hang of it more and more as I work with it. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll at least have the main page and navigation bar uploaded!

Any suggestions? Thoughts? Comments? Complaints?