The Life of Monstar
I asked Rona if I could work with her on the assignment, and she agreed, and she said: "I was thinking of making a video for yoga for people staying in front of computer everyday with some funny music by modest mouse." I loved her idea, and we got together and decided we wanted it to be really cute and sort of silly, and decided to make our characters look like the little cartoon character on her laptop case. We worked on the storyboard, deciding to make the animation take place at ITP at first, but then be transported to a magical land while the characters are exercising, and then have it somehow come back to reality.
We broke the song up into four parts, and each took 2 parts, and after creating a library of symbols (the shape of the characters etc) we each worked on our piece of the song. We reconvened later to put the two pieces together, and do some final tweaking (and tweening).
I had worked a little bit with Flash in the past, but only to use it as a web interface (buttons, scenes, etc). I had never done any animations on it, and after making this video I feel much more comfortable with it. It was great to use how to build a library of symbols so as to reuse them efficiently, and as I was making my part of the video I discovered all sorts of cool functions of Flash such as "swap symbol" etc. I feel much more comfortable making animations now, and am very happy with our little movie.