I created this animation as an experiment to test and explore some animation techniques within Adobe Animate. As this is a new tool to me, this task helped me in getting to grips with the software. This exercise allowed me to produce simple animation with a very simple character. The character creation wasn’t a very important aspect in this task. I drew a simple character that would provide me with the opportunity to experiment with the various new techniques that Adobe Animate would give me access to. Within this exercise I used motion tweens to animate the arms and legs and also simulate the characters jump. This was very simple animation but provided me with enough movement to explore further animation skills. I also experimented with shape tweens with the mouth of the character. This was effective in making a smooth animation that changes the characters expression. This will be an effective technique in my project as it will be a vital way in which to portray a character’s emotion. If this is accompanied with a voice over then shape tweens will be effective at complementing the emotion portrayed in the voice over. With this animation I gave more thought to easing in and out for particular aspects. This is a new technique to me and this experiment gave me an opportunity to consider how i could use easing effectively in order to achieve a fluid animation and providing a pleasant viewing experience for the viewer. Overall, this experiment animation was very helpful in giving me a basic understanding of the animation process i would have to undertake by using Adobe Animate. It also gave me a platform to develop the animation and improve and build upon it in order to make the audience’s viewing experience more engaging and natural.

Why is Adobe Animate the right tool for this project?

Adobe Animate, formally known as Adobe Flash, allows the user to create animation for html As this project will have animation embedded in the webpage itself Adobe Animate will be the most appropriate tool to make engaging, eye catching animation.  This software would be more appropriate than After Effects as the finished animation will not have to be inserted into the webpage as an external video. It will also give me the option to add interactive animation to the website which could be useful in encouraging audience engagement with the subject matter. Adobe Animate offers a large amount of control over the animation and will allow me to produce fluent and impactful animation that will invite and encourage the user to find out more about MS. As this is a tool that i have not previously used before Animate offers me an opportunity to explore new software and also expand my knowledge of animation techniques that will make my work appear more professional and engaging.

Using Easing

This series of images shows how a circle animates over five frames when moving down from one point to another. Through the use of the onion tool we can demonstrate how the object moves on varying types of easing. Easing can make an animation appear more natural and fluid. These examples show easing at the extreme end of each spectrum. When easing in you can see from the example images that the frames are mostly at the beginning of the animation. This makes the animation appear slower to begin with and then speeds up towards the end. Easing out does the opposite of this and speeds up the beginning and slowing the end of the animation. By using easing effectively the user can produce a more fluid looking animation by making movement look less robotic and more natural. This is effective with character animation in particular as it simulates how velocity would effect an object in reality, therefore appearing more natural to the viewer.

Create a responsive website

This link shows how the new responsive design can be used to make your website adapt to the device that the website is viewed on.

These screenshots show how a webpage adapts when viewed on different devices. The images start with a traditional desktop view and goes through how the webpage would look on a tablet and eventually down to a phone layout. The website uses breakpoints to respond to the change in pixel width. These breakpoints are added when the layout that is being used is broken when squashed. This allows the website to keep a consistent look across a number of devices without appearing broken on some screen resolutions. Breakpoints are also used when the text becomes illegible due to the size of the screen that the site is being viewed on. As you can see from the screenshots below the functionality of the website doesn’t change, only the layout of the webpage changes.

• Early Treatment
  • We now know that early treatment improves long-term health and wellbeing by slowing down the build up of irreversible damage and reducing the number of relapses people experience. However, the evidence also doesn’t mean that starting treatment later will not have any benefits.
  • Experts used to think that when a person with MS had a ‘relapse’ it meant symptoms appeared and/or quickly got worse and then went away (or ‘remitted’).
    
    Thanks to wider use of MRI scanning, we now have evidence that when symptoms get better, the damage that MS causes often doesn’t stop. So even when someone with MS is not having a relapse, MS may carry on attacking their body. This could lead to nerve damage that can’t be put right.
    
    This new evidence has changed what we understand about MS and how to treat it. Rather than waiting to see whether more relapses occur, DMTs should be offered as close as possible to diagnosis, before damage to the body has built up.
• Disease modifying therapies (DMTs)
  • do not cure MS but reduce how many relapses someone has and how serious they are
  • Alemtuzumab (Lemtrada)
    • two courses of treatment spaced a year apart from each other
    • given through a drip
  • Avonex (interferon beta-1b)
    • injected into the muscle once a week
  • Betaferon (interferon beta-1b)
    • injected under the skin every other day
  • Dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera)
    • take as a tablet twice a day
  • Extavia (beta interferon-1b)
    • injected under the skin every other day
  • Fingolimod (Gilenya)
    • take as a tablet once a day
  • Glatiramer acetate (Copaxone)
    • It’s injected under the skin using a pre-filled syringe once a day or three times a week.
  • Natalizumab (Tysabri)
    • natalizumab is given through a drip (known as an infusion), which takes about an hour. You need to go to hospital once every four weeks for the infusion, but you don’t need to stay overnight.
  • Plegridy (peginterferon beta 1a)
    • injected under the skin every two weeks
  • Rebif (beta interferon-1a)
    • It’s injected under the skin three times a week.
  • Teriflunomide (Aubagio)
    • It’s a tablet that you take once a day.

Exercise

• improves the overall health of people with milder ms
• help people with more severe ms to stay mobile
• help some people manage ms symptoms and decrease the risk of heart disease
• improve muscle strength and fitness, helping with mobility or weakness problems
• help manage weight control, especially when combined with a healthy, well balanced diet

Physiotherapy

• Physiotherapy is often recommended when there is a specific problem or ongoing symptoms that affect day-to-day activities, mobility and independence. It can help whatever your level of disability, but can be a particularly valuable when physical symptoms progress or you are recovering from a relapse.
• Physiotherapy might involve the physiotherapist working ‘hands-on’ with you – for example they may hold and move your limbs for passive stretching and range-of-motion.

Diet

• Certain diets are promoted as effective therapies for MS.Some people may find they help, though this hasn’t been proven conclusively for people with MS.However, a healthy diet is good for everyone, and many people with MS find it a good way to manage their health