Almost Done!

So I worked the other day on the video for about 6 hours and got a lot done. Today I am just making some final alterations and rendering my video for output. I obviously ran into a few problems while making my video, but I feel like I successfully figured out how to make the video work. I was proud of myself because when I did run into problems I didn't just give up and change the video. I looked up the tutorials or asked questions in class, and figured it out.

One problem I ran into was how I was going to zoom into sections by scaling up using the anchor points. I figured out how to move the branches and blossoms together, but since the blood had its own anchor point I didn't really know what to do. I finally realized that I could use the branches/blossoms as a parent, and the blood as a child. So that whatever the branches/blossoms did the blood would do as well. This worked out great.

I also ran into the problem that I couldn't watch my entire video all at once because it was too long and detailed. But with the help of Krista I render some parts of it into videos, which saved on space and figured out how to watch certain sections by moving the time ruler.

Next I had to figure out how to use an illustrator file and move around the parts within that one layer. I used the puppet pin tool and created points on the blood in order to pull and move certain sections.

Now I just have to finish and put up the video, woo!