ART279 - 3D Computer Graphics Design II
Spring 2002 - NVCC - Giulio Porta
This project required using Macromedia's Director to complete
an assignment to give the student a basic understanding of Director
capabilities.
A 30 day trial version of
Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio was
downloaded and used to create this animation.
Click the arrow
button in the bottom left corner to play
"A Day in May"
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Cast Members can be generated inside Director
using the Paint or Vector windows. You can also Import graphics
images created in other applications, sound files, animated GIFs,
Flash movies, other Director Movies and Power Point presentations. I used 4 types of cast members: Bitmaps, Wavs, a Button, and Behaviors to create this movie.
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The top portion of the Score window are the
Special Effects Channels that control your media.
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Crow #1 Path |
Kite Path |
String Path |
Crow#2 Path |
Boy Path |
Dog Path |
Sky Path |
These images show the Paths each Cast
Member moves along in the course of the movie. The Black rectangular
box is the actual camera view. The Cast Members are presented in
order of appearance. All cast members except the sky travel from
outside the camera view, into the camera view with image size
decreasing to give distance perspective. Paths can be modified to accelerate or decelerate a Sprite's movement. (Like paths in trueSpace) |
Shockwave movies loop by default. To cause a Shockwave movie to play only
once, you must add the
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Users knowledgeable in Flash will have no problem quickly becoming familiar with Director. Flash and Director are both Macromedia products and share the same concepts but use different terminology. Flash Symbols have their own timelines in addition to
the movie's timeline. Director's Lingo scripting language is more english-like making it easier for non-programmers whereas, Flash's ActionScript is based on JavaScript which is very syntax sensitive. Flash is a web design tool. It is limited in the number
of images and types of media that can be used and creates small files
sizes (it's big advantage over AVIs). Note: Macromedia products are fast becoming industry standards. |
I made extensive use of the online Help and Macromedia's
Online Director Support Center to help me understand how to use
Director. |