More AS3 fun.
Fireflies. Ok. Not fireflies, but it reminds me of them.
Fountain.
Notice the scale change from birth to death. It adds a nice dimension.
Dump Bucket. I imagined a bucket of bouncing balls dumped onto the floor. Classic bouncing ball from traditional animation ramped up.
Lately, I’ve been doing A LOT of administrative work, and I’m tired of it. Even though I have a shit ton of work to do for ARC, I decided to have some fun and chill out this Sunday. I loaded up some old flash files of mine. After having a conversation with an artist in town, it looks like I’ll be doing more AS3 work this summer, so I thought I’d warm up. This one uses OOP! The ship drawing, the ship animation, and the ships bullets are all independent. This work is a rebuild of the great work taught by Keith Peters in the book, Actionscript 3.0 Animation – Making Things Move. Mr. Peters didn’t teach how to combine the independent files, but I figured it out after a while. Have fun spraying bullets! Not that spraying bullets is much fun, but this is just the beginning.
Use the spacebar to shoot bullets, the up arrow to move forward, left and right arrow to rotate. Be sure to click in the flash block to activate it.
I think this is pretty cool stuff, and I’m proud of my work on this project. In October of 2008, I was invited to collaborate with Steve Mehallo, Jim Cassio, and Michael Scott to animate a prototype of a new website standard. I was responsible for creating and programming the animation. I was also responsible for following Steve Mehallo’s design of the interface to the pixel.
I hadn’t used Flash since AS 1.0 days, so I had to learn Action Script 3.0 programming very fast. I used research material published by Keith Peters to achieve my goal in one month (all while teaching full-time). Big thanks to Keith for being a great author and teacher! I used to dread programming in Flash, but now it’s one of my favorite things in Flash and is thoroughly satisfying. Animating with code is very cool. I retired from this project in December of 2008 to take on a part-time position teaching at the Art Institute of Sacramento from January 2009 – June 2009.
You can shift + click the circles to have them drag about. Also, alt + click to enable gravity, then you can shift + click to throw them around. See a larger version for the website prototype.
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