In class Mon Mar 5th

Project 2 is Due.

Lets talk about what happened.

Did you get people to interact with you?

What was the experience you were trying to create for them?

Flash

Whats Where

Create a new document

---> File ---> New ---> Flash File (Actionscript 2.0)

Change the Documents size

---> Modify ---> Document

* note, you can change the Frame Rate here also!

Save Your Document

---> File ---> Save As ---> Flash CS4 .FLA

Tools

- Drawing Tools

-- Strokes and Fills

--- Adjusting Stroke and Fill options

Selection Tools

- single click, double click, shift click

Layers

- New Layer, Delete Layer, New Folder

- Locking Layers, Layers Visibility, Layer Outlines

Timeline

- Placing the Marquee

- Frames, Keyframes, Blank Keyframes

* Control Click on the timeline to bring up frame insert options

- Adding Frames and Deleting Frames

- Adjusting the Frame Rate (FPS)

- To play your animation place the marquee where you want to start and hit "Return"

Frame by Frame Animation

- Onion Skin, Onion Skin Outlines

Shape Tween Animation

1. Place a Blank Keyframe on the timeline

2. Draw a shape on that Keyframe

3. Go to another frame on the timeline and insert a keyframe

4. Make changes to the shape or postion of the shape in the second keyframe

5. While holding control click on the timeline between the 2 keyframes and select "Shape Tween"

Experiment with drawing and animation in Flash. See if you can create both styles of animation. Show me when you figured it out.

Work on Project 3