Fun Animation Project

For this project we thought up some characters, we came up with four. John mcGreggor (Hammer), Eclipse (Boxing tennis ball), Octi (Octipus) and bandage man. My character was John mcGreggor, a walking hammer who was born in harlem, New york, 1985. He was diagnosed with autism and had a tragic life. We didn't include the hammer or the bandage man in our final project. In our final project, we had Ma'ake and Ronald working on the sketch book, Chad working on a camera operated mouse pad that picks up shadow, and i was working on the processing part of the project. Animation in processing is easy to do, but just takes a lot of time, for each image used in processing you have to create and import each picture. When i did my processing, Ronald created some pictures of the two characters, Eclipse and Octi, in photoshop, and he created them with different emotions, and wearing different items. He also created 6 items that the two characters interact with. I put all of these images into processing and make it so you drag the mouse over any object, and click it, and hold down a key (the beginning letter of the item) and then drag it to the character, and he will some how change depending on what item you dragged over. Also due to the characters having a sad background, if you click the character and drag them around, they will smile while they are being dragged, and go back to normal after they have finished being dragged.