In Class wed Dec 12th

The Final is today from 12 noon till 3pm.


i will be in around 11:30am

it is time to celebrate the end of a great semester!

In Class Wed Dec 5th

SUMMA thing

You should be getting close to finishing up your web projects.

We will need to set up meeting times to review your sites very soon.

In Class Mon Nov 26th

It is time to see where you are at with your web sites and get ready for finishing it up.

we should start talking about where this site will live and how to get your domain name.

In Class Mon Nov 19th

Come on in and Show me where you are at on your sites.

In Class Mon Nov 12th

Work on your sites, ask questions. i'll be available form 2:30pm till the end of class.

In Class Mon Nov 5th

Work on your websites.

i will be here from 1:50 - 4:50 to help and answer questions.

In Class on Halloween

Work on your Spooky websites

Ask Scary questions

In Class Mon Oct 29th

Work on your websites ask questions.

In Class Wed Oct 24th

Work on your sites. Ask Questions

In Class Mon Oct 22nd

Work on your Flash Site.

Ask Questions.

Text from file in Flash

3 Steps to load text from a .txt file

step 1
Movie Clip with instance name = infotxt
- contains a Dynamic text box with a variable name = infovar

step 2
Action = loadVariables("info.txt","_root.--");

step 3
Txt file named info.txt =
infovar=

Welcomem to PAttern Joy

This book is dedicated to the ancient art of pattern creation. I am inspired by Morse and technoculture.

More to come!

In Class Wed Oct 17th

Dynamic and Input text in flash
- text from a .txt file
- variables from a .txt file

Get help

Work on the site

In Class Wed Oct 10th

Flash Text Advanced

Text Input
--- different types of text fields: Dynamic, Static & Input
--- check the options
--- instance name
--- variable name

Text Output
--- put in the Actions
------ Dynamic text box instance name = " " around your text, + + around variables

ie... finaltextA.htmlText = "Hello " + nameA + " how are you today?";

also,

Trace command - trace("bonusA" + bonusA);

check out MadLibs example

In Class Mon Oct 8th

Work on your Flash Website

come in and ask questions!

Important Actionscript

loadMovieNum("the url of the SWF", level);

unloadMovieNum(level);

example on a button:
on(release) { loadMovieNum("nav.swf", 30);
unloadMovieNum(40);
}


this would load up the "nav" SWF on level 30 and would unload whatever SWF is on level 40

In Class Mon Oct 1st

Flash
- reverse engineering a FLA

try to make a simple site work

In Class Wed Sept 26th

Advanced Flash website

talking 'bout LEVELS n' SWFs
--- Physical example of LEVELS


where you put it, is where it shows up!
need help lining things up, try a screen shot (shift+apple+4)

look'n at Folder and File Structure for Adv. Flash website
check'n out the FLAs
look at example SWF's

In Class Mon Sept 24th

Flash
--- Adding Images
----- Photoshop save for web : the PNG
----- Trace bitmap

--- Adding Video

--- Adding Sound


Moving around the Timeline using action script:
stop();

on (release) {gotoAndPlay(frame#);
}

In Class Wed Sept 19th

Creating Symbols
-- Movie Clip
-- Button
- Nested symbol
- Nested Animated symbol
--- as Movie Clip
--- as Button
(try to start thinking about Flash in pieces)

Quick Project: Create a complex Button and a complex nested Movie Clip
(the button should contain animations on 2 frames, the movie clip must have at least 3 animations nested inside it)

Styles of Animation
Animation #1 Shape Tween
Animation #2 Motion Tween
Animation #3 Frame by Frame
Animation #4 Motion Path
Animation #5 Programed Animation

In Class Mon Sept 17th

Flash Day 2

The Type break apart Trick
--- Group / Ungroup
--- Break Apart

Windows
-- Transform
-- Color Mixer

Timeline
-- Layers
----Lock, View, Oultines

Animation #1 Shape Tween
Animation #2 Motion Tween
Animation #3 Frame by Frame
Animation #4 Motion Path

opportunity

Please reply only to ariana bray at braya@hartwick.edu

CALLING ALL PAINTERS AND/OR DRAWERS!

(and other creative peoples: you DO NOT need to be an art major)

Last semester I started a volunteer project working on painting murals in the local Fox Pediatrician’s Office (located near Price Chopper) and I am seeking volunteers to help me continue the project! Last semester we were able to complete 5 rooms but we still have 6 to go, so any help would be great.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO SENDER!!!!!!!!!!

THE TIMES CAN BE FLEXIBLE AND WILL PROBABLY SPAN SEVERAL DAYS EACH WEEK.

I WILL BE HOLDING AN INTEREST MEETING NEXT WEEK IN STACK LOUNGE ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 AT 7:30PM. BRING YOUR SCHEDULE TO THE MEETING.

IF YOU CANNOT MAKE THE MEETING, PLEASE EMAIL ME: BRAYA@HARTWICK.EDU

ARIANA BRAY

In Class Wed Sept 12th

Check out Project 1

how does that ziki work? and what does it do?

Lets look at Flash
Layout
Tools
Prefs

In Class Mon Sept 10th

Today we will be getting you set up on a web network.

you will need to sign up for each of the following:
Flickr (on Yahoo)
Blogger (on Google)
YouTube
Ziki.com

i would make all the names and passwords the same for each account if you can.

once you have the accounts try to make a post on your blog and upload an image onto Flickr.

First Day

Hello and welcome to the class blog for ART 316 Web Art. This blog and it's Squidoo lense will be the focal point for outside class communication. If you want to know what is going on in the next class or are looking for resources and examples, this is the place to go. So come on in the water is fine.