June 3rd - Progress Log - Johnny

    After a bit more research, I found that Adobe Flash is probably the best program for animating, and the bad things said about it are just for using it in website, so we plan on making parts of the animations in flash and exporting it into a QuickTime file (.MOV) and then converting it to a .AVI file if needed. I also discovered that although you can animate with Google Sketchup, it does not remember the location of each object when you animate things, that means you can only move the camera. This means that we will not be able to use Google Sketchup as much but we can use it for a 360 shot of a frozen scene (eg. start of a fight scene).    

   Given by the current time frame, we will probably be using 2D animation for the whole thing, and if we still have time after that, we might do a bit of 3D. For the presentation, I think that half of it will be the animation, an half of it will be the peer review, the process, ect... To record my process, I am using CamStudio to record my screen, I will use it to record myself making the animation then speed it up 5-10 times and put it in the process.

    One problem I am running into with Adobe Flash, is that I cannot use it, because I have already used my trial time up, and Adobe is smart now so they prevent you from uninstalling and re-installing. I am going to try and look for an old version or download on a different computer and just move it on to this one. If all of these doesn't work, we will have to work on it at school, since they have Adobe Flash.

    I have also worked on the script a bit, I smoothed out a bit of the parts Jarrod did and added a bit in between. I feel like we are almost done the script so we should be able to focus on animating soon.