Flash Walk Cycle Animation

This blog is on another project I have created in my Contemporary Media class. It is a stickman walk cycle animation i have made in the Adobe Program called Flash. This is my first time making an animation such as this, so I was very excited to get started. I made this project in 30 different steps, I will show you one of the steps I took below, I used several types of different tools in the program and I'll be glad to tell you about them in this blog!

I will explain to you how I made the ground move and made it look as if the stickman is walking over it. First I created a new layer named "ground," I grabbed the rectangle tool and created a rectangle that goes off the screen below the stickman. I made the ground layer into a classic tween, and I inserted a keyframe at frame 30. I then clicked on my ground (rectangle) and dragged it to the corner where it doesn't show the end. And once that's finished, you finally have your moving ground!

This project was finally completed after three long weeks of learning what tools to use, and how to add sounds to my project. I am glad to have begun a project such as this and I'm prepared to learn many more advanced animations. I was very excited to show you what i'm capable of thus far, I'm prepared to learn much more and I can not wait to show you what my next project is!

WHAT IS MOTION DESIGN?

During this second semester in my Contemporary Media class, we will be learning about 2D Motion Design, it will help us learn more about short films and cartoons. It will help improve our knowledge on Motion Design and as soon as we're finished with knowing every step of 2D Design we will move onto 3D Design.

This semester, we will be learning about 2D Motion Design with an Adobe program called Flash Player 2.0

Today's assignment includes researching and defining 2D motion design concepts. According to Wikipedia, the definition of motion design is the subset of graphic design it has the same principles in a filmmaking of a video or production context through the use of animation, or film techniques. Some examples i saw were starting off with some simple drawings and animating them to either move, talk, or just stay put while the background has something going on.

This is the movie that i will take pointers off of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkLkIZeccY

This is the list of the different type of examples i found:
On Vimeo I searched up 2D animation
Also Onto Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJLtujW6FY

Now that I'm familiar with motion design, I'm excited to see what i can design in the near future.