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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 what your company does?
The technical part of this assignement is to use the pen tool accurately to replicate your drawing and learn how to animate filters in Flash.
Read about filters here.
Read about blending modes here.

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

Barrera Gabe

Brewer, Gabe

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, colored, and look professional.
All symbols should be labeled appropriately.
Original drawn logo should be in your library so we can compare it to the vector version.
Logo should be an exact replica of the original drawing and created with the pen tool consisting of smooth curves.
3 or more animated filters should be apparent somewhere on your animated logo.
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.