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How will your logo move? What will change over time? How will it capture the viewer's attention and make people understand a bit about your company?
The technical part of this assignment is to use the pen tool accurately to replicate your drawing or create it from scratch and learn how to animate filters in Flash.

Learn about the pen tool here and how to create and control smooth curves with it.
Read about blending modes here.
Read about filters here.

These logos were drawn by hand on paper, then digitized, vectorized, and animated in Flash.

Barrera Gabe

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Martin, Danny

Luu, Jivan

Carrasco, Brittany

Christenson, Brian

Castillo, Joseph

Earle, Stephanie

Custer, Thomas

Bakhaya, Ziad

Edwards, Jace

Gamblin,Nikki

Scoggin, Zac

McCalley, Kylee

Dossat, Megan

Coats, Shannon

Kindred, Nick

Cousins, AJ

Michael-Emily

Nguyen, David

Penn Marshal

Retkowski, Michael

 

Trey Sanchez

 

Follow handout to prepare your logo for animating.
Follow this handout to animate your filters.

This video shows how to animate the logo after it has been completely converted into vector format. Watching this video is optional.

Vectorization (computer graphics), the process of converting raster graphics into vector graphics (shapes & vertices).

Criteria

Logo should be all original and look clean and neat (professional).
All symbols should be labeled appropriately.
Original drawn logo should be in your library to compare it to the vector version.
Logo should be created with the pen tool consisting of smooth curves, not straight line segments.
Two or more animated filters should be used!
Animation should smoothly loop infinitely without twitches.
Assignment should be saved to the Z:drive in the appropriate folders as a .fla and .swf.

Save it to the period folder in the "Logos" folder and to your portfolio in the "Finished" folder too.