Post-image Check 1

So I think things are going decently at the moment. I was thinking that I was super behind for the past week or two but I may have been over-exaggerating. I came to the realization the other day that it is not necessarily that I haven't done the Flash animation I said I would, I mean I am a little behind on some of that but I have also switched a lot of what I originally thought I would be doing in After effects in Flash. Some scenes (the car, the plane, the mechanical bull, the minisub, the stampede, and the pennyfarthing) will be done in After effects but basically anything that involves a lot of movement from the guy I'm gonna do in Flash. I've never really liked how vector animation looks because unless you're really careful with your key frames it looks stiff. You also can't easily manipulate in 3D, like body rotation and stuff like that. So my baseline goal for next week is to have the mountain climbing scene finished (probably @ 75% right now) and the T-rex bit of the mechanical bull scene. Funnily enough there is actually a hell of a lot more reference material for a T-rex than there is of a person mountain climbing. That being said, I want to have more than this done and likely will. I still need to do surfing and scuba diving which ideally I would have done. Then I will move onto the vector animation for the vehicles. the typography aspect is gonna keep me satisfied in terms of the original design of the project. I wanted to do a motion design project and instead it has more or less turned into a Flash animation but If I can play around with the typography aspect I'll be okay with deviating so much. Looking at it glass half full, it just adds more variety to my animation for a challenge and also for future employers. The main thing I am concerned about is blending the two styles. I'll have to make some changes to where I was gonna put some of the text or something. The main thing I was thinking about earlier was the flag specifically. I can't flash animate that and put text on top because it'll be super obvious it's just a layer on top of another. A thought I had was to find a cloth animation in after effects and use that, that way I can probably use the same settings/formula for the text layer to make it deform the same way. Unfortunately this is something I would need the edit lab for because my computer would probably burst into flames if I try to render it at home.