Archive for July, 2008

Flash Class W4

Jul 28th

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Week 4 –
In class assignment ~45minutes: Duplicate my swf using tweens
Discuss basic actionscript (gotoAndPlay, gotoAndStop, stop, basic path structure)
Review movieclips, instance names, timeline within a timeline concept
More advanced actionscript (interaction: onRelease, onRollover, etc)
Talk about arrays, functions, listeners, trace, etc (but let students know they won’t
have to do this stuff)
Class discussion about when you should and should not use flash (interactivity,
SEO, audience, etc)
Assignment 3: Find 1 example of a good use of flash and one of a bad and share
with class next week.

Flash Class W3

Jul 21st

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WEEK 3

- Discuss Quarter project requirements
- Masks and guides
- Further duscussion on differences between movieclips, buttons, graphics
- What can be done on the time line vs use of actionscript
- 4 AS examples: animation, games, dynamic content, physics (TeaGames, Orsinal, N, Submachine5, Shift)
-Quick actionscript overview (actions panel, syntax highlighting, error console, etc)

Assignment 2 Tutorials:
Available on the white Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Workshop disc: I’m going to assign five tutorials that cover things we already addressed in class. These are all pretty short tutorials (under 10 minutes) but they’re going to give you the concepts we discussed from a different perspective. I’m also listing three tutorials that are optional, but if you feel like you want more information on these topics feel free to take a look at them.
1. “Working with FLA files”
2. “Creating and using symbols and instances”
3. “Understanding the timeline, keyframes, and frame rate”
4. “Creating animations using motion tweens”
5. “Creating animations using shape tweens”


Optional Tutorials

  • “Using the workspace“
  • “Using the drawing tools”
  • “working with text”

Flash Class W2

Jul 14th

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WEEK 2

  • light review of drawing techniques
  • in depth review of the timeline(keyframes, frame rate, tweens)
  • in depth review of the library(shapes to symbols, movieclips vs grahics)
  • importing(copy/paste, PNG/GIF/JPG, importing layered PSD in CS3)

Assignment 1:

Create 5 tweens (location/position, scale, alpha, shape, color, etc…)
Use combinations of property changes for at least 2 of them.

Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials:

PixelPerfect (Revision3) – Video Tutorials
Zymic
Photoshop Support
Smashing’s Best of Photoshop Tutorials

Just for fun:
Stackopolis

Flash Class W1

Jul 6th

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Class Contact Methods:

Inspiration Links:

Tutorials:

Local Flash Groups

  • FlashMN – 3rd Wednesday of the Month – Easel Training Center, St. Paul
  • MN.swf – 1st Tuesday of the Month

Music links:

Interesting Online Tools: