The beginning process of animating a robot starts off with
making an outline with details lightly put in for the desired effect of the
animation in this case was the legs which I’m going to tween to move to simulate
like its walking as well as the a lighting being able to flash on and off with
another tween with a colour repeatedly flashing through the animation.
The robot needed to be colour to make it easier to move
without selecting the background through the gaps using the selection tool, by
using an anchor point where the legs would have a central point to each other
so it wouldn’t look like there were separate legs but it actually being alive
and moving on its own.
To attempt more complicated tweens and other things we decided
to add in a button tween to start the robot moving instead of it happening at
the beginning of the film by using a code in the action tool bar to make it the
only part of the file that can make the robot move.
Once the robot could walk across the scene I added a wall
that the robot could walk into as a collision which I wanted to later on to
make the robot fall over which ended up being too difficult to do I the time we
had so I added in birds noise like in a cartoon after a bump of some sorts
which would show the collision as well as a light sound of music in the
background
