Digital Puppet 2

Down below is a digital puppet I made in Flash. It's a jack-in-the-box. I first drew the character in a sketch book, then scanned it in, traced it in Illustrator, and lastly imported it into Flash. There I colored it and separated the different parts, like the head and neck. I then completed the animation.

Rotoscoping

Here is an example of rotoscoping. This was a tutorial assignment where I had to import footage I was given from the instructor and using the tools inside of Flash I traced each frame one by one.

Script

I am working on my script for my final project at the moment. I should have it up by midweek. I am going to have script start off with announcers introducing themselves. One of them will introduce the final five dogs at the last table of the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Digital Puppet

Below is an animation of a clown jumping. I colored the scanned image and grouped the head and the neck to create the motion tweens.

Simple Ball Bounce #2 -- Graph

Now here is a ball bounce I created in Flash using the ease in/out graph editor:

Simple Ball Bounce -- Flash

Here is a simple ball bounce made with key frames in Flash.

Premise for Final

For my final project in ANIM 342, Digital Cel Animation, I am going to do a spoof on the famous painting, "A Friend in Need." If you are not familiar with the painting, it is of dogs playing poker. I am going to implement a spin on it though. I am going to have the dogs appear as if they are part of the final table at the World Series of Poker. I am going to have it appear like it is airing on ESPN, with commentators adding their unique play-by-play of the action. I would like to animate this using a cut-out animation approach, similar to South Park. Instead of using the ESPN name, I am going to come up with my own sports channel to steer-clear of any copyright issues.