Interface

The interface I found to be very difficult, I managed to get all my buttons onto my index html page, but they were all in one long line down the left hand side, one good thing is that they animated, but when clicked on did not link.

Also I managed to get all of the stories in the html pages, but only the first swf worked, as soon as clicked on they did not link to the rest of the swf in that story. I had run out of idea to make them link to the rest of the story. I will have to seek help in this area to proceed. I did come to a conclusion to why my buttons did not link though, I dont think I have linked them properly in flash actions, I will try and sort this out.

I next tried to put all my buttons into flash again, this time copying and pasting them, this did work to an extent, did loose a few flourishes, however when it came to time to do the action script I think there was somewhere where I was going wrong as they did not link. I did a header a footer in html, which successfully linked to each story, which needs separating, but the story does not play past the first slide.

I figured out my problem, I had named quite a few of buttons with the same instance name, so they did not work, I renamed then and changed the action script as well. This worked and all my buttons linked to the correct story. Also I neatened up my footer, I centered it and changes the colour this looked much better, it was a case of changing my css and relinking it. Below is my new html page.

Buttons

Once I had created all my scenes and they all linked together, next was to do a interface for everyones stories to go on. I created buttons for each story, using art work from other members in the class art work, I was able to do this as we all swapped stories, so we could do this. I animated the buttons as well as making parts of them into buttons, so when pushed in theory it would then link to that story. Below are a few of my buttons.

They have certain hot spots, which link to that story. I have also put sound on a few of them over the over state so the children can interact with the buttons.

Creating my scene in Flash

Once I had decided what was going into each scene, it was time to start to create the scenes in Illustrator. I began creating the background first, then added the different significant objects and lastly I added in the characters in. I needed to make sure that the parts of the scene that I was wanting to animate were in different layers, for example the eyes. This would help me when I came to put the scene in Flash, as the part I wanted to animate would be separate from the main object, therefore would act independently from the the main object.

Next I copied and pasted the whole scene into Flash, which also copied all the layers across too. I began to animate my characters.

My first scene I decided to animate Percy the Pirate. In the story it said that he is jumping on the trampoline, somersaulting, I just had him bouncing up and down. Also it described Pecky the Parrot as hovering above him so I had him flapping his wings. I also wanted to try and have him circling in the air. Below is my first finished scene.

The trees and most of the background I used through out because this was my main and only location that my story was situated around. A few changes though out like, the change in the sky colour as the sun is setting, and different objects and characters introduced were made. But overall this is what my scenes will be based around.

To create this I used different types of animation, scene by scene for example, I found most appropriate for this scene as it allowed me to move my character up and down in a bouncing motion with ease.