The 20 Cent Quest

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The 20 Cent Quest is an award-winning Macromedia Flash animation created at Lara Primary School by two Year 6 Students in 2003. It was created by Nicholas Bouvier and Matthew Heilbronn and won two national awards for K-8 student animation in 2003.

[edit] Journey of "The 20 cent Quest"

Matthew and Nicholas began by playing around in Flash and creating characters individually. They then worked out the basic plot (Two characters bump into each other and start searching for a coin.) their story grew and evolved as time went by. This production didn't happen quickly, in fact it took several terms to complete and in the early days was quite basic, it originally had it so you have to click on the character's speech bubble each time they say something, which was quite tedious.

They learnt to use layers effectively, scenes, insert sound, motion tweens, morphing and became extremely competent in using Macromedia Flash. Also, they changed and adapted their story as time went by. After going to Canberra for their grade six camp, they included photos of the War Memorial and Parliament House and then included John Howard (Who had the letters "PM" on his head, which of course, stands for "Prime Minister"), Simon Crean and Ian Thorpe into the animation. The 20 Cent Quest has been shown on local Geelong television, at the national archive, The National Film and Sound archive, in Canberra and many other places.

The animation won both K-8 categories of 'Best Junior (K8) Film/Video Production' and the 'Best Student Multimedia Production--Junior (K-8)' at the 2003 ATOM Awards.

Matthew then went on to create relatively crude Flash Animations and publish them on the Internet. They are viewable on a GeoCities website located here: "Gio the Great Studios".

The animation is supposedly viewable on the Lara Primary School Website.

[edit] Miscellaneous

The coin is supposed to be a 20 cent coin, yet it is unexplainably gold, instead of silver. When Matthew Heilbronn was asked about that he replied "Well, I originally wanted to call the animation "The Six Cents", instead of "The 20 cent Quest", so it was originally a 6 cent piece, which don't exist, and probably wouldn't be golden. Look, I was 12 at the time, I'm sure the logic was flawless in my head."

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