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week one
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Visit Lynda.com
Purchase Book: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How Tos 100 Techniques
Set up WebSpace on KU.edu
Set up DropBox or Cloud
Send invitation to CargoCollective
Connect to the school server and pull the your name folder onto the hard drive. name the folder your_name. Put the folder into YourFiles.
Open Dreamweaver: intro to Dreamweaver using template.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How Tos 100 Techniques
Page 86 - 89: Getting to know the Timeline
Page 116 - 121: Creating Motion Tweens
Page 110 - 115: Shape Tween
Page 90 - 96: Frame by Frame
* Page 127: REPAIRING TWEENS
Page 15: Organizing your files
Page 19 - 26: Drawing Tools
Page 32 - 41: Setting Drawing Tool Options
Page 48 - 56: Using Free Transform - Objects
Page 57 - 60: Working with Text
Page 61 - 64: Layers
Page 65 - 75: Symbols and Library
Page 76 - 79: Buttons (Page 173: adding sound to buttons)
Page 157: Working with Sound
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Finish up info graphic
Doesn't have to be perfect just get it to a stopping point
Add stop action. New layer. Action. Timeline Control. Stop
Post it on your web page, upload it, send me your link.
Motion Tweens
Must use Symbols. If you want it to aniamate a Symbol must be on its own layer.
When in doubt use motion tweens over shape tweens.
Diamond is a Property KeyFrame. You can move the Property KeyFrame in 2 ways.
1) Command click to select and you can move it.
2) or you can Right Click > Clear KeyFrame All then go to Timeline Right Click Insert KeyFrame All
FILTERS
Work with Movie Clips, Buttons or Text (not Graphic Symbols or Shapes)
Convert to symbol (Short Cut F8).. Add filter. Motion tween. Add Keyframe. Change.
Try all the filters. Save. Make swf file and post on your webpage.
(*knock out doesn't animate)
Movie Clips
Self contained Flash Movie. It plays independently from Timeline.
Also can use action script code with movie clips.
Create a series of self contained movies...
Starry night, create motion tween, use Color Effects
Snow flake
Airplane: import to library, each layer as movie clip, animate propellers
Motion Tweens (easing)
Motion Ease: speed up or slow down an animation at a certain part.
Properties Panel --
negative number easing in = slows animation at the beginning and goes faster at the end. -- positive number easing out = faster at the beginning slower at the end. Can see easing by looking at the dots on your motion tween line.
Motion Editor
Can edit XY and speed. Eases is at the bottom.
Once you create an ease you need to pull down and select it in the properies
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DAY THREE
Code Snippets
Check out code snippets
Scenes
Intro to scenes. Make three different scenes with some animation on them.
Buttons
To add interaction or to make something change
Over and Down F6 (key frame), Hit F7 (blank key frame, define area with a shape)
Change Color
Change Shape
Animated
Invisible
Text
Button Actions
Importing images
Making bit maps/vector graphics
3D
Animation (must be in ActionScript 3, Motion Tween)
Masks
Reveal content and animate it.
Make a shape. Turn down Alpha. Movie Clip. Mask. Unlock. Animate. Lock will mask what is below
Sound
Add. Stop.
Motion Presets
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THURSDAY TO TUESDAY HOMEWORK
Using what you have learned so far this week make a Fathers's Day card (or a card to another family member or friend). Sketch out your idea. Plan it the best you can. And just do it. Tuesday we can work in class to finish up, ask any questions about how to... If you get stuck go to Lynda.com and try and try to find out how to solve your issue. You may email me if you are really stuck or confused.
card sites for reference: jibjab, hallmark
*IF YOU DOWNLOAD a free trial of Flash CS 5.5 you MUST save as CS 5. When you go to save as under FORMAT you can use the pull down to change from CS 5.5 to 5.0.
A FLASH CS 5.5 file will not open at school.
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