Advanced Interactive Design - Task 1 - Exercises

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23/04/2026 - xx/xx/2026 (Week 1 - Week 3)
Carren Yeliandi / 0376990
Advanced Interactive Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons.) in Creative Media
Task 1 - Exercises

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Lectures


Week 1 - xxx

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Exercise 1 - Asset Creation 

We were asked to make some sketches for a functional "Smart Assistant" avatar or UI widget to be created using vector tools in Adobe Animate. I made some sketches based on ducks, carrots and bunnies and went ahead to ask for his opinion and approval to which he specifically chose the duck butler that I had sketched out. 

Fig 1-2. Left = With Drawing Mode ; Right = Without Drawing Mode

Using Adobe Animate, I started on my character creation. At first, I accidentally drew one without object drawing mode (which would make the shape not 'whole') however when I tried it again the same way I did it on the one without the mode on the one with the mode, I found that the add anchor tool doesn't work. So I had to use the rectangle shape and shape it the way I wanted using the selection tool.


Fig 3. Duck face

I then proceeded to use the rectangle and oval tool to make the face. With the help of direct selection tool, the selection tool and free transform tool, I managed to make the face seen on figure 3. 

Fig 4. Butler outfit reference

Using the same tools, I proceeded to make the vest, white shirt, collars and bow as well as the arms and legs. I separated all of those into multiple layer and multiple parts in each layer in order to be animated later on. For example, the leg layer has 6 parts, the left and right thigh, calf and shoes. The one of the arms is made up of the upper arm, forearm, elbow, the hand + thumb.

Fig 5-6. Duck reference & Final Duck Face

After I was done, I felt a bit weird with face so I went ahead and did some research only to find out that a duck head has a dent near the cheekbone and the beak is more of a straw hat shape rather than a beanie shape. I went ahead and fix that and I was done with my creation "Buck the Duck Butler".



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