Corcoran Studio: Information About the Take Me Out to the Ballgame Animation Project

Take Me Out to the Ballgame Animation (2007)

Jeopardy Style Game Board Opening Screenshot

Take Me Out to the Ballgame Animation (2007)

Click on image above to load the animation. Flash-based animation provided by the Ruffle Flash Emulator at ruffle.rs. This project requires JavaScript enabled in the web browser to run. Then click the small "play ball" button in the lower left corner to start the animation.

Flash based presentation playing the music for "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" along with a bounding baseball synchronized over each word as the music is sung. Shown on screen is a logo for the Heartland Community College Faculty Best Practices along with a vector graphic of pitcher Nolan Ryan and batter Stan Musial and an animated scoreboard showing runs, balls, strikes and outs.

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Goal of the Project

Shortly after starting working as the Media Technologist at Heartland Community College I was tasked with creating an animation showing the words to the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Edward Meeker from 1908 as part of a Spring 2008 All Campus Kickoff Event held at the college. The project needed to show the words to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as well as play the song so the audience could sing along with the song as an opening event to the days presentations.

Project Specs

Category

  • Animation Design
  • Interactive Design

Software Used

  • Adobe Flash CS3 icon
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3 icon

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Audience

  • Heartland Community College Administrators
  • Heartland Community College Instructors
  • Heartland Community College Employees

Solution to the Problem

In addition to showing the words to the song as the song plays, I decided to add the bouncing baseball to indicate the words to be sung timed to the music. I designed the overall layout, background graphics, baseball players and logo in Adobe Illustrator. Then I imported those graphics into Adobe Flash and animated the text and ball on screen. After that I added the play ball, pause, and replay buttons along the lower left and right of the screen for added animation controls.

Attendees at the event seemed to enjoy the playful aspect of this animation presentation and the event was well attended.

The example of the Take Me Out to the Ballgame animation on my portfolio above is running in Flash using a Flash Emulator called Ruffle. More information about the Ruffle Flash Emulator is available at Ruffle.rs.

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