Communications Lab

Monday, December 12, 2005

Animation Final

I created one movie file of Greenie without a hat on a skateboard. I duplicated that file for each instance I needed him in for the different countries. I then drew a different hat for Greenie to represent each country.

Next, I needed to draw all the flags out and find a photo that would best resemble the country. The photos were found on Google.com.

The final part was to find music that would best resemble the country. After the song was chosen, a ten second clip needed to be created. The songs that I used are:

Intro: The Warriors Theme, Barry de Vorzon
France: Mal รด Mains, French Cafe
UK: Yakety Moog, Gil Trythall
Italy: On An Evening in Roma, Dean Martin
China: Dagger's Society Overture, Swordsmen of China
Germany: 99 Luftballons, Nena
Japan: Godzilla's Theme, Best of Godzilla Soundtrack
India: Jaan Pehechaan, Ghost World Soundtrack
End: Down & Out, James Brown

Finally, everything was compiled together and I got this.

I realized that I had a problem when I tried to run the file on a different computer that was running Flash 7. I tried compiling at a lower version, but apparently I'm using some Flash 8 functionality. Therefore, my other option at this point is to force users to upgrade to Flash 8. I found a pretty simple Flash Version Checker on
alamode.com. I modified the page to get this.


GREENIE SKATES THE WORLD