Skills checklist for L3 Year 1 bootcamp

Read through the list below and say whether you feel very confident (GREEN), fairly
confident (AMBER) or need to develop (RED) your skill level after doing the first test. This
will show you which areas to focu on when we all redo the test together.

Keep the document safe, then redo the RAG self assessment in the last column after we do
the test the second time.

This document as well as both attempts .FLA files must be uploaded to in order to
complete boot camp.
Student name Krissy Bond

Attempt 1 Attempt 2
Tasks
(R/A/G) (R/A/G)
Setting up workspace and windows (2 column toolbar with runoff, timeline at the
top, properties, library, closing unused windows, saving setup, understanding A
purpose of each window)

Basic drawing in Animate (brush width, colour, smoothness) G

Basic colour filling (rounding out shapes, using “close large gaps” from bucket
A
options, selecting colours)
Stopmo in Animate (naming layers and using them for moving parts, locking them
A
when not in use, making KEY drawings first THEN adding extremes, using onion
skin)
Tweening in Animate (creating/naming symbols in library, drawing on the “X”,
returning to Scene 1, setting first position, adding motion tween to keyframe, A
stretching to length of time, setting the WHEN, setting the WHERE)
Further colour work (using existing images to create a colour palette, suggesting
light sources using colour, creating solid object drawing, using the “paint G
selection” setting of the paintbrush)
Write about anything practically that you really liked/felt improved about your second attempt.
(I was absent on the day we did the second attempt so I’m going to have to just do this based on
the first one.)

I enjoyed the satisfaction I got from succeeding at animating and knowing how to change what I
didn’t really like about it, such as adjusting the length of frames or timing relative to the audio.
I feel like I learned the very basics of the animation software we’re using and know how to do
simple animation. It may take me a few times to fully memorise it but it seems simple enough for
now.
Write about anything creatively that you really liked/felt improved about your second attempt.
I feel like I tried to be a bit too creative with my first attempt and it resulted in my animation not
being very long. So when it comes to creative things I can improve, I should improve on how
much time I spend on it and when I decide to put extra creative detail in.