Animate Future Stories Piece Documentation

 For my Adobe Animate project for our Future Stories assignment I chose to do a rendition of the 3 Little Pigs story modified to be an educational interactive story for children about Internet Safety and Password Security.

My initial design process was done by drawing out the designs for the characters, the story structure and the movement of assets in animate in Adobe Photoshop, which can be seen below.

The wolf was designed to be more angular, mainly made up of triangles to signify danger, also being a harsh red colour with yellow added on his ears and grin. The three pigs all share the same base body structures, but being colour coded and with different shaped heads, each chosen to signify the stability of each pig's house, or in the case of my story, passwords. 

The first big has a circular head and is sacredly, with circles not being very stable shapes. The first pig is also a light blue colour to represent their general sad attitude and passiveness. The second pig is square and more cocky, this brazen personality also being signified with this pig's main colour; yellow. Squares are more stable shapes than circles, but also far more common and therefor more expected to stay upright. The third pig is triangular and pink, with triangles and pyramids being the most stable shapes for things to be built as, this being why the third pig's password is the one the Virus Wolf cannot break into.

Using Adobe Animate's action and keyframing features, I was able to ensure that the animation stayed on a single segment of the story until the viewer presses a button in order to progress, this being a skill I learned through working on my interactive poster project some months ago. The still pages for the animation were drawn by me in Adobe Photoshop, and then imported into Animate. Below is one of the pages I created to serve as the title page to my animation.

 The animations for all other assets, the characters, houses and backgrounds, were all created within Adobe Animate and animated the same, though I did abandon my original plan for the houses to all be in one scene due to size constraints within the programme.

The story and appearance of my project is designed to be simplistic, as this animation would be intended for a younger audience, likely around 6-9 years old, so the way it told its message and showed and told it's story had to be fairly basic, though I don't personally see this as a downside. All things considered I am pleased with the product I've created, and believe that this has been a big step in my skills with Adobe Animate. Hopefully what I've learned in the creation of this project can be used and developed further in future artefacts and animated pieces.