Week 2 Blog

This week we got a good idea of how each took works in Flash. Professor Grace gave us a demo of Flash's capabilities and variation of tools. Flash's drawing tools is very similar to Illustrator and has some of the same tools, but is still significantly different. Some tools work in different ways than in Flash or have additional capabilities, like the paint inside tool. Some of the other same simple tools include the pencil tool and shape tool, but other drawing tools such as the bone tool are only characteristic of Flash. The bone tool allows you to make a wave effect, similar to that of a fabric blowing in the wind. By placing points on a plain across your image you can individually move each one and create some bending in your drawing. It is ideal for the movement of a worm of caterpillar in an animation with the same wavy effect. I'd like to apply it into my Urban Landscape, which I've chosen to do a Gotham City landscape. I think the bone tool would be perfect for the movement of Batman's cape in the wind, as well as the movement of the bat signal in the sky. It will allow for more fluid, and natural movements than I would get from just simply moving the objects with my mouse. I've done some sketches for my a single scene of my city, and laid out how somethings may look. I am also including on this blogs some pictures that I am using to inspire my idea.