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Class Name
Web Animation with Flash (Introductory)
With the help of Katherine Ulrich's book, lectures, exercices and assignments, we will be covering techniques to create what is most enjoyed throughout the web: FLASH animated web sites. This class sheds a needed light into the complex world of web animation. Don't know what Flash is? Visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ and rush back here to get into what is considered to be the most important revolution in web design.
Outline
Week 1: Flash Basics
- Find your way around the flash environment.
- Understand the Timeline
- Use rulers, grids and guides
- Be able to change your document properties
- Use the Property panel (inspector)
- Use the zoom tool
- Be able to draw simple graphics
- Be able to work and create colors
- Know how to change fill and stroke attributes
Week 2: Modifying Simple and Complex Graphics
- Be writing with the text tool
- Modify text and paragraph attributes
- Be able to make detailed graphical selections
- Be able to modify simple graphics (flipping, rotating, skewing, distorting)
- Create more complex graphics on a single layer
- Create transparent objects
- Understand grouping
- Know how to change the stacking order of objects
- Be using the align tool
- Know how to combine objects together
Week 3: Graphics on Multiple Layers and non Flash Graphics
- Create graphics on multiple layers
- Understand and organize layers
- Work with different types of layers (Guide, normal, Mask)
- Create layer folders
- Change layer properties
- Distribute graphics to layers
- Know how to import non-Flash graphics
- Know what formats you can import in Flash
- Be able to turn raster graphics into vector graphics
Week 4: Symbols and Basic Animation
- Understand the Library panel
- Undestand why symbols are so important
- Create, modify and use symbols
- Know how to change one sy
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