Reflection on my Construction Toy

When it came to finding a new idea for a construction toy, I could not come up with a idea that had not been made before without having to pick out elements from existing toys. However I came up with an idea, sadly my toy is limited to what you can construct out of it and the safety of the use of magnets. Due to my toy being made completely out of cubes, you could only connect the cubes together from 5 sides, also with some of the shapes being rectangular cubes there had to be one side that was would repel and one that would attract. This ended up being a very complicated thing to think about so when it came to the design of my animation and poster I tried to not go into super amounts of detail on the connect of shapes.

My poster was very simple it showed one example of what you could create out of the toy and a skeleton of the cubes. I thought I would do this because it shows the audience what the toy looks like and how inventive you can be when using the toy. I also clearly stated that the toy was for children ages 9+, I did this because that was the target audience we were set and with the magnet problem I thought that 9 would be a suitable age for change to not try and shallow the magnets. I also featured my logo in the poster because I thought that this would make my poster look more professional. 


This is my animation, I am very proud of it because I thought that it covered how the toy worked very well and it did it very smoothly. I feel like I have really gotten use to using Flash now and I only hope to improve with it. The animation tells the audience that the cubes stay together by the use of magnets and that the magnets are on each corner of the cubes. I think the use of the logo at the end of the animation makes it look like an advertisement for the toy and that was my goal from the start.