Flash Animation - 50 States
My Flash animation tells the story of how I went to all 50 states in eleven years. I took a map of the USA that I found online and used it as the background for most of the animation. I then drew blue lines that detailed nine of the ten trips I took with my father and my family to get to all the states. I also checked each state off as I pasted through it. For the last trip I used a photograph of a 747 that I also found online. The photo moves from New York to Hawaii on the map. I set my travels to music by Jerry Reed, “Eastbound and Down,” a song from the movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” one of my favorite films when I was young. My father and I used to sing the song as we traveled.
Flash is a very interesting program to use. I had a lot of trouble at first as some of the commands are not very intuitive. However, once I got the hang of it, I found that Flash wasn’t too difficult and I can see how it is very useful for doing animation as well as putting files up on the web. I look forward to using Flash again.