When designing my cartoon I originally started off with a penguin idea but then transformed it into an elephant. I then decided that I didn't think my cartoon was giving the feeling of cute and innocent! I then thought about my childhood and thought about my old teddy bear that I took everywhere who is sitting back at home near my bed. I then decided to make a teddy bear with big eyes. I first started off with just a naked bear and then decided to pimp him up with some awesome swim trunks. After I drew the swim trunks I felt that his head looked a little to plain and felt like I wanted to give him a sort of bad boy cool look, with a mix of innocents. I then added a tooth and stitches to his boy to make him look like a toy who any kid would want to play with. I am still questioning the hat because I feel like its hard to see his eyebrows. The had will make it hard to animate his eyebrow emotions when he is surprised or sad, but I will make it work. What I learned from this experience in flash is that you need to have everything on different layers one for movement of eyes. I used tweens to make him wink and wave. I hope to learn more on how to animate so I can make him realistic but still animated! This project helped me brush the rust off of my past illustrator experience and make me learn how to use the program again!
