Weekly Post:
I spent most of the week working on a flash animation project for school. This is for the first scene of an animated short. I spent the week creating background images and working on the motion tweens to make them move. Heres a sample of some of the trees I have been designing for my forest scene.

I made the trees and in Illustrator and then copied them into Flash to use in the background and foreground of my scene. I was pretty happy with the style I was able to get with the pen tool. The trees blocky and jagged edges that worked well with the scene.

Aside from the background work I also started drawing walk cycles for the main character. First I created the profile view. I looked up some guides online for walking which really helped a lot. The real problems came with trying to use Flash. I had some problems at first creating new frames and filling them with drawings that had the right flow for smooth movement. My biggest problem came from resisting every temptation to throw my computer out the window when halfway through animating my computer decided that would be the best time take a break and freeze up. Everything I had done up until that point was lost to the unknown vastness of time and space or something along those lines, who knows. Long story short I had to do everything again, but I did learn a valuable lesson from all that torment. SAVE YOUR WORK CONSTANTLY. I am happy to say I now hit command S habitually after every small change made... The results are some cleaned up outlines of my character walking. Both front and profile view. 

Front:

Profile:

 My week was both fun and frustrating as I expect many of the weeks to follow will continue to be. Learning the hard way seems to come natural to me, but at least things were learned. Oh and my computer did not have fun learning the laws of gravity so theres theres that to be thankful for too. Until next week. (assuming my computer is still on one piece)