Illustration | Design | Code
MAGICAL WEAPON WHEEL
Skills
Overview
Animate
Illustrator
Actionscript 3
Motion Graphics
For this project, I was tasked with creating an interactive eight slot weapon wheel interface using Adobe Animate and Actionscript 3. I decided to go with the a magical girl theme.
This project displayed both coding and visual design skill.
Task
Each slot has a weapon icon, weapon name and current number of ammo/total amount of ammo. The user would default to the top of the wheel and use keyboard input to move to another slot. The arrow and highlighted slot would indicate the current weapon selected, and the current selection would display the name below and the icon in bigger resolution in the middle of the wheel.
This was my first time using Actionscript 3 and Adobe Animate, which had quite a learning curve. While you could draw assets on Animate, I was more familiar with Illustrator so I did most of the visuals on Illustrator and exported it to Animate.
Actionscript 3 posed a challenge for me as well since it was not well documented and I spent majority of my time debugging and improvising some of the assets. For example, the current slot would highlight blue, when it was meant to be a lighter pink color code.
Challenges