September 30

Good Morning and Welcome to the last day of September. Below is our agenda for today:

Ensure you have completed and submitted:

• The Flying Butterfly Effect

Ensure you have posted a blog for the assignment that includes the posted youtube video and a response to these questions:

• Describe the assignment you just completed. What was the task and what needed to be done in order for you to successfully complete the assignment?
• What new skills did you learn from completing this assignment? Be specific and use correct names for the different tools you needed to use to complete the assignment. ie Classic Motion Guide, Keyframes, symbols, etc. Reread the assignment description or watch the tutorial to remind yourself
• Was the assignment easy to complete? Did you have any trouble? What did you have trouble with and how did you resolve the issue? What was the most fun aspect of the project and the most challenging?
• Besides making the butterfly flap its wings consistently and using the pan and zoom features in your animation, what other types of animations could you make successfully now using similar tools to the ones used in this project? How do you think the pan and zoom effect will help you with our next assignment that will involve a car driving down the road?

**Note: if you are having trouble posting to youtube, try exporting your file as an .avi file today and see if that works better.  It worked for me this AM.

Moving forward:

• Begin drawing your background and key symbols for our next assignment - Creating Shape Tweens, Car Driving Assignment.  See my image posted on the blog as an example.  After this assignment we will begin working with frame by frame animation.

Complete name tag for Friday's mentor event (to be done at the end of class)

Although I had wanted to take a moment to work on the large chart and track grades today, I don't currently have access to IC and therefore could not print transcripts. This is on hold for the time being.

Thanks!
Mr. Rubin