Lesson 1

your homework is to create 3 drawings using flash.

All classfiles will be downloadable from here:

Class Files


Intro
Examples of flash online
Student recommended examples of flash online

Get into the designer workspace
choose a good size for your movie

Basic Drawing (keep drawing objects off)
- fill, stroke, selecting
- editing, bezier editing
- coloring gradients etc
- using shapes to cut other shapes
- transforming "Q key"
- alt dragging and cmd y
- grouping
- layers

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

- shaded circle trick

Symbols
- graphics, duplicating and transforming (color transform)

Tweening
- across the screen
- adding keyframes inbetween, scale alpha etc...

Posterous
- setting up, adding swf files