I found it really difficult to translate my original idea for this animation from my imagination to flash format. I wanted to have single points of color moving across the screen leaving ovelapping trails (kind of like seeing kids running around the yard playing with sparklers at night) The different colors would overlap and combine to create new colors, just like the voices overlapped to create new sounds in the "busy restaurant" sound clip. My initial drawing shows this idea.
But once I attempted to animate this, i realized that what I wanted to create was beyond my skill level in flash. The closest I could come to making lines run across the page was this trial animation.
I had to simplify my idea down to something I could handle with my limited flash skills. But the animation still retains the same basic concept of overlapping voices/colors as my original sketches:
Animation 3
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I think your solution was a good reinterpretation of the original idea. I could see elements from your first animation incorporated into this final solution (even in the way you have them animated now.) I know it can be frustrating to have an idea and feel like you don't know the software enough to pull it off. The software ends up acting as a limitation as much as the parameters of the assignment. But this way of working, coming up with what you want to do before bringing it into flash - and then seeing what you might need to change to pull it off, is a good one. You lead the software instead of it leading you. As you learn more, it gets easier and easier to make the end product match your ideas. But this is always one of the essential struggles. If you decide you want to keep pursuing Flash - we can work together to figure out how to make your original idea.
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