Animate: interactive poster

Link to final poster: https://ca-net.herts.ac.uk/~ag21abv/Exports/Export6.html

Link to walkthrough : https://youtu.be/JpRE9OD5aXM

Continuing on with the poster, I started working on the 3D printing page. I had the idea to have options print different things. I ended up with the options of a 3D printed heart and 3D printed food. 

I first made the '3D printer' using inspiration from google images and the image below. 

3d Printer In Cartoon Style Isolated On White Background Typography Symbol Stock Vector Illustration Web Stock Illustration - Download Image Now - iStock (istockphoto.com)

I made a backdrop and the moving parts seperately and then made the moving parts into their own symbols so that they could be animated. I also added a green subtle flashing light when it is moving. 

I used a classic tween to make the parts move. I first moved both parts down and then moved the smaller part back and forth. I had to remember to add keyframes to both parts though and to keep the movements the same so that it looked robotic. 

Overall I was happy with the outcome.

I then edited the 'test' animation of something getting printed so that it used a traced image of a 3D printed heart from 3D Printing of Personalized Thick and Perfusable Cardiac Patches and Hearts - Noor - 2019 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library and so that the animation is in time with the 3D printer animation. 

I also added some text: 

3D printers can be really useful in the medical field. They are able to print things such as bones and body parts, which can be benefitial for people who need them or for research. For example in the instance of a person with a heart defect, a 3D  printed model can be made to look exactly like their heart and therefore it can be used to aid surgery. There is also organisations doing research into 3D printed hearts which can be transplanted, this would be ground breaking since it would help with the demand of donors.

and some buttons to these links, which I used for research:

How are 3D printed hearts helping families with heart problems? (bhf.org.uk)

World's First 3D Printed Hearts And Functional Beating Hearts Grown From Stem Cells (intelligentliving.co)

I also made a page for 3D printed food. To do this I duplicated the printing animation and changed the heart into a broccoli. For this I couldn't find the sort of image I wanted so I just made some broccoli using animate.

 From Purees to Palatable 3D Printed Food (singaporetech.edu.sg)

Solving World Hunger with 3D-Printed Food - ASME

I made another page on dollhouses where I had an animtion between an image of a dollhouse and a pixelated version of the image. To do this I brought a sketched image of a dollhouse (That I drew, with inspiration from these dollhouses :  clipart doll house 10 free Cliparts | Download images on Clipground 2022) into Illustrator and traced it. I then brought it into animate and coloured it. I then took a screenshot of the dollhouse and brought it into photoshop to pixelate and then brought it back into animate to bitmap trace. Overall the animation did not turn out exactly how I had in mind and also I think the doll house could have been better. However, it does show the sort of idea I was going for. 

Finally, I made a page for drones. Like with the dollhouse I traced a sketch (which I drew and was inspired by the research pages I looked at) in illustrator and brought it into animate. To make the propellors move I made an animation and flipped them so that it looked like they were rotating. I also made two different versions of the drones, one with a medicine box? and the other with a camera. By complete accident I had left one frame of the box in the camera animation and it made it look like the camera was taking a picture, I liked the effect so I edited it so that the flash was not red. I also added motion tweens to make the drones fly.

Websites about drones that I looked at:

CloudTweaks | Drones: Unlimited Possibilities Await Us

“Drones for Good”- Combating Technology’s Negative Perception (pakwired.com)

Overall, I am happy with how the interactive poster. I think there are some things which I could have improved like maybe a different main page layout, a better 3D printed food image and maybe adding a way to stop the animations when you are trying to read. However, I think the final outcome is effective and interesting, and it was nice problem solving.