Lesson 3

MovieClip Nesting...


Homework:
Make 3 machines - and ease your nested movieClip arm

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My Twitter

Forgot to put my twitter account on the syllabus - its 100% about actionscript and actionsnippet:

http://twitter.com/actionsnippet/

Lesson 2

Timeline
- parallax motion
- motion guides
- easing review
- ease in out

MovieClips
- nesting animations
- isometric 3d

Homework:

Take one of your drawings form last week and animate it using tweens, easing and at least one motion guide. If you forget how to do something, just e-mail me [see e-mail on syllabus below].

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Move Back and Forth on Timeline

To answer a question from yesterday... you can use the < and > keys to step back and forward on the timeline...

Lesson 1

Drawing Notes:
Workspace
- create intro 2 flash from designer
- rulers
- grid
- snapping ( cmd / )

Just draw
- drawing objects off!
- pencil ( Y key )
-- pencil mode
- paint brush ( B key )
- oval ( O key )
- rect ( try rollinng over tool )
- color window ( shift F9 )
- properties window ( shift F3 )
- strokes, fills

Selection Tool
- Arrow tool, Cursor Tool ( V key )
- single click select fill
- double click select stroke and fill
- shapes cut other shapes
- draw box to cut shape
- touch edge of shape to distort

Timeline
- frame by frame animation
- f6 - duplicate keyframe
- f7 - new empty keyframe
- f5 - new frame
- onion skinning

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Syllabus

Introduction to Adobe Flash Animation
Friday 12:00-2:50

Instructor: Zevan Rosser [bendvent] [] [gmail]

// my sites
http://www.shapevent.com/
http://www.actionsnippet.com/

// other sites
http://www.mudbubble.com/
http://www.keyframer.com/
http://www.vectorpark.com/
http://www.levitated.net/
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?page_id=1164

// books
How to cheat in Flash CS4




Adobe Flash is the standard for creating interactive vector graphics and
animation on the Web. Students will explore the foundation assets and techniques
used within Flash and build several small projects as a basis to create
a large portfolio of vector-based interactive animations. Prerequisite: SMD-1020,
Foundations of Visual Computing, or equivalent.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

There will be a homework assignment every week. Students will post homework on a mini-portfolio site that we'll create in the 5th class.

GRADING:

60% Homework

40% Attendance/Participation

COURSE OUTLINE:

Drawing Tools
Importing External files
Creating Graphics Objects
The Library Window
- symbols and symbol instances
Creating Motion tweens
- timeline
- keyframes
- layers
- ease in
- ease out
Creating Shape tweens
- vector graphics
- complex fx
- shape hints
MovieClips
- nesting clips
- isometric simulation
- tree structured animations
- forward kinematics
Buttons
- over, down, up and hit
- button events
Flash 10 Timeline
- Motion Editor
- Inverse Kinematics
- advanced timeline tricks
- 3D
Timeline Code
- play, stop, gotoAndPlay and gotoAndStop
- using timeline code with buttons and movieClips
Simple Site 1
- navigateToUrl - linking pages on the internet
- dynamic text
Transformation and Distortion
- Distorting bitmaps
- The envelope tool
- Warping
- Card Flip
- Squash and Stretch
Masking
- Rotating Globe
- Flag Waving
- Handwriting
- Spotlight
- Focus
Motion Tips and Tricks
- Basic Shadow
- Drop Shadow
- Perspective Shadow
- Combining FX
Character Animation
- basic Techniques
- Lip Syncing (swap)
- Lip Syncing (nested)
- Sync
- Walk Cycles
- Looping Backrounds
FLV Video
Basic Sound
Interacitivity
- mouseX, mouseY
- clip properties