Ken and I (Alder) will be working in Flash to animate our scenes, with assets created in Illustrator, as we are much more experienced with using the two in the animation process, and also for what we wish to achieve Flash seems far more appropriate than After Effects. Although assets have already been created by Mitchell using Photoshop, they are all raster and therefore unsuitable for Flash animation, so I will be regenerating the graphics we need using Illustrator to take advantage of their much cleaner scalability.

Benefits of Flash:

• More intuitive, cleaner workspace/interface than After Effects
• Motion Tweening much more streamlined than the AE equivalent
• Movie clips can be used for easier looping of animated assets
• An external library can be used for me and Ken to easily share assets
• Vectorised graphics mean much cleaner, high-fidelity scaling
• Scenes can be used to break up long pieces of footage

Drawbacks:

• Far fewer file format options for exporting clips, although to get around this we can just export our scenes in SWF format, bring them into After Effects, and render them from there.