![]() ![]() They have tiny file sizes and they're supported by all modern browsers, so they're perfect for web graphics, and you can also place them into layout files for print projects, but what applications should you use to create scalable vector graphics? How about one that boasts powerful features, is easy to learn, and completely free? Sound too good to be true? Well, there is a program that perfectly fits that description. SVG files look great at any magnification. If you are unaware of coastal erosion and the consequences for the Gulf Coast region I encourage you to read the article.- Scalable vector graphics, or SVG files, are increasingly popular with artists and illustrators, and with good reason. I include this as documentation that the problem is real. I don’t take information from the article since I’ve been teaching this topic for over a decade. Losing ground: Southeast Louisiana is disappearing, quickly. The video posted below shows my work on the project. I finally realized that I had to publish, not export, to keep the sound. I exported the video, and the sound did not export with the images. I tried to drag it to the timeline, but that did not work. The fade out effect for the plant was achieved through moving the alpha to 0%. I animated the ground to fall away as the plant died and faded away using motion tweening. I messed up once on the animation, deleted the layer, and started over. I animated “salt” to grow across the screen. I set the time for each layer to 450 frames to get 15 seconds of animation. I switched to solid and finished the plant. I forgot to turn off stipple and drew a stippled trunk at first. I renamed the layers in the property boxes. I used stippled borders for water and dirt. I colored the ground green and the water blue. I typed the word “salt” and set it to white. I use the rectangle tool to make the water and the earth. I then created layers for the plant the water salt in the ground. Following the example in the tutorial, I changed the frame rate to 30fps. I selected a light yellow for the stage color, #FFFFCC, to make it closer to the warm color scheme of my portfolio without being too bright and to make sure I knew how to adjust the stage color. The course instructor created his project as an Action Script document, and I followed his example. I created an Action Script document in Adobe Animate because the tutorial stated that an Action Script file could be tested in Adobe Animate without opening a separate browser. The tutorial title was “Learning Adobe Animate CC.” I watched enough of the course to figure out what I needed to do. I’ve never used Animate before, so I found a tutorial on. Without freshwater, the marsh becomes saltier, the plants die, and the roots release the soil into the Gulf.” ![]() “Levees on the Mississippi River prevent freshwater from reaching the coastal marsh. I initially went slightly over 15 seconds but trimmed the audio of pauses to get down to the allotted time. I made the soundtrack first to make sure that I could say what needed in the 15 seconds allotted. I began not in Adobe Animate but Adobe Audition. I will use this animation in class to teach a concept that I had been acting out with my hands as the roots of the plants releasing the soil into the Gulf (Marshall, The Lens, & ProPublica, 2014). Estimates of the potential financial losses caused by coastal erosion, in the long run, are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The wetlands serve as a windbreak that slows down hurricanes and mitigates damage from storms in New Orleans and the surrounding area. The loss of the wetlands represents the destruction of the spawning grounds of many species that live their adult lives in the Gulf of Mexico. I teach about this phenomena in my geography course each year because it is a major ecological problem for the United States. The emergence of satellite photography in the late 1960s showed the loss of much land along the Gulf Coast. ![]() When the plants died, their roots no longer held the soil, which then washed out the Gulf of Mexico. The increased salinity kills coastal plant life unable to adapt. In the absence of freshwater flooding, the salt content of the water in the marsh built up over time. ![]() The construction of levees following the Civil War cut off freshwater from the coastal marsh ecosystem. I decided to make my animation about the problem of coastal erosion on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. As the salt builds up the plants die and the soil is released into the Gulf of Mexico. I made a 15-second animation about coastal erosion using Adobe Animate. ![]()
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