Friday, October 22, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Lesson 6

Homework: take the isoworld.fla file add more graphics and animations - build different structures out of the blocks.

Class Files

Friday, October 8, 2010

Lesson 5

Homework:

Take the mini_site.fla file and add better animations and graphics to it.

download the class files here

Friday, October 1, 2010

Lesson 4

The homework for this week is to create another head using the technique we learned in class. Additionally, you should create something that uses buttons (it can be simple).

Class files

Friday, September 24, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Lesson 2

Lesson 2
- parallax motion
- simple bouncing ball
- motion guide (fly)
- motion guide leaf
- stagger
- unicycle
- isometric 3D
- stagger nested
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- (fp10 3D)
- pendulum

The class files are available here:
HERE

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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