172 Weekly Reflections

This week in class we had our introduction to Adobe Animate. The animation program we will be using for the rest of the unit. Rafi taught the basics like first setting up a scene. Saying he wants all works to be at least HD 1280 x 720 at 12 or 24 Fps and using Actionscipt 3.0 format. I learnt about the interface and the hot keys and that I must always name my layers.

Adobe Animate is a great program for an introduction into animation. It's intuitive and has a nice workspace setup. We practiced a straight ahead animation creating a snake with a hat. It showed me how onion skins can be used and some drawings don't need to be re-drawn every frame.

There's an excise that is to draw 100 frames of a circle really fast and see if there is any improvement after such extensive repetition.