In Class Thur Feb 28th

Your Flash Drawing Assignment is Due
- How to export it as a 150 dpi jpeg
- Hand in your images to joe

Animation / Game example

Flash Animation
4 styles
- Frame by Frame
- Shape Tween
- Motion Tween
- Motion Path

Lets try the first two
Frame by Frame
* lest check out the frame rate (FPS)
- working the Timeline
--- adding and deleting Frames & Key Frames
--- moving Frames
Shape Tween



In Class Assignment #2
create a 15 second @ 15 fps animation using both frame by frame & shape tween animation.
create a 15 second @ 15 fps animation using motion tween and motion paths animations.
* the size of the animation must be 720 x 534 pixels
Due March 13th

In Class Tue Feb 26th

Where is your blog?
- lets make a link list on the class blog

Flash
- Fill Transform Tool

FILE -->
- Import
- Import to Library
- Export Image
- Export Movie
* Lets check out the Library


Work on your Vector Drawings

In Class Tue Feb 26th

In Class Assignment: Vector Drawing

Due Thur Feb 28th

Whats due:
2 images created in Flash saved as 150dpi JPEGs.

In Class Thur Feb 21st

Today in Flash:

- Rulers, Grids, Guides and Snaping

- Cut /Copy/Paste/ Paste in Place in flash

- Text in Flash

- Group/unGroup/Break Apart Shapes
--- try breaking apart Text

- Arrange the Groups
--- forward and backward

- Working on an Grouped shape
--- pay attetion to where you are

- Alpha is Opacity
--- check out the color mixer

- Transform anything (an I mean anything)

- Saving as FLA
- Exporting as an Image
- Exporting as an SWF

In Class Tue Feb 19th

USB THUMBDRIVE TEST TODAY!

check out Speakerson.net

Flash
What is a Vector?

- Layout
--- Windows

--- Stage

--- Timeline
----- layers
------- locking layers
------- layer visibility
------- layer outlines
----- folders

- Properties
--- size
--- frame rate
--- background color

- Tools

* lets draw


Flash Frame Rate & Size basics
-frames per second (FPS)
- Low bandwidth website 12 FPS or less
- Mid bandwidth website 14 - 20 FPS
- Fast bandwith website 20 FPS or more
- Movie Film 24 FPS
- Digital Video 30 FPS (about)
- Traditional Film Animation 12 FPS (double click)

-pixel dimensions
- Small Website = 640x480 or smaller
- Ave size Website = 920x680 smaller
- Large Website = 1024x768 or larger
-TV = 320x240
-DVD = 720 x 480 (720 x 534 )
-HDTV1080i = 1920 x 1080
-HDTV720i = 1280 x 720
-Youtube = 320 x 240
-PSP = 480 x 272
-iPod = 320 x 240

In Class Thu Feb 14th

Flash Examples
Jackson Pollack
Andyfoulds
Flashface
Intentionallies
Holiday Snowglobe

Hookin up the Web2.0

you will need to sign up for each of the following:

Youtube
Blogger


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.

Lets Check out Flash
* open it up and take a look

In Class Tue Feb 12th

Hello and welcome to the class blog for ART 316 Interactive Media for the Web. This blog will be the focal point for this class both inside & outside the class room. 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.

Come on in the water's fine.

Do you know about Net Neturality? Lets ask a Ninja.


What is Web 2.0?
* A good example of Web 2.0 is Podcasting, the Ninja may be able to tell us what podcasting is.


thanks Ninja!

So what the heck is an RSS feed?

What can this do for us as artists? How can we use it? In what way can it be subverted? What does this mean to American society? To television?

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