Flour Animation

An animation has been made of the flour bag being poured into the mixing bowl.

White clouds of smoke were drawn in flash in two stages - one at 100% alpha and the other on another frame at 0% alpha.

A motion tween was added between the two stages to create the effect of smoke rising once the flour was poured into the bowl.

Here is a short video taken with my iphone of the flour animation:

Butter Animation Sketches

Here are some quick sketches for the animation of the butter being sliced and put into the bowl of mixing ingredients.

The idea is that the user will select the butter tray with the knife and drag it to the bowl. Once the user has released their mouse the animation will play of the knife cutting a slice of butter and sliding it into the bowl of cupcake ingredients.

Selecting the cupcakes - Depth of field

When the user selects a cupcake case from the shelf in the kitchen, I wanted the case to scale larger to have the appearance that it was coming towards you.

1. Actionscript was used to first define the width and height of the cases. This is so that if the case was dropped on stage it would snap back to its current size.

2. Each case is defined as .this, using the variable .this constitues to anything the mouse is clicked on.

3. The script first starts by saying if the cupcake case is clicked and it is moved more than 74 pixels on the Y axis to scale the case by its original size divided by 2.

Image 1: The blue cupcake case is selected and is noticably bigger than the original pink cupcake case.

Image 2: The blue cupcake case gets bigger as it gets closer to the baking tray.

Image 3: The case keeps its shape when placed on the baking tray by defining its X and Y coordinates to 94 pixels.

New Icing Bags

After gathering feedback on my drawings, it came to light that my original drawings of the icing bags looked to unrealistic and too square.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ZiQhm8GMs_JY6p2w14MOwGFvoNlhdXPDmR3GyCeaqkWsFdSCmWyjp2GxNd7JSpqcJ_WiVlWm0J42v5lhEdDs7PbfooydUYdVFDXNcSk8RxwQoBgjF3iF1xY_gjbSCaC8PGQLbvltq3-L/s1600-h/icing-bag.png

I re-adjusted the look of the icing bag and came up with this design:

The Octonauts - Inspiration

Inspiration for the kitchen style was taken from an image in the book 'The Octonauts and the Frown Fish' I used the same style of kitchen worktop to get the appearance of wood.

http://www.octonauts.com/book.html#octoff

Icing bags design

chocolate, baby blue, baby pink and white

Example Images

Here are some images I found which I liked the design of. All images were taken from iStockphoto. I used some as a template to draw round in illustrator.