Flash Classes 8 & 9

Thursday, June 29

We worked on tweening and learned about motion presets.

For our next class, students should look through the chapter on bones (Ch. 7 in CS4 book).

 Tuesday, June 28

Tween Review

Symbols_Instances

Classes 6 & 7

Thursday,  6/23

We were able to cover the advanced drawing chapter, which included work with gradients and color mixing.

For Class 8, next Tuesday, read half of Chapter 6 (CS4 book) or Chapter 7 (CS5). If you're going to be short on time next Wed., read the entire chapter over the weekend.
We will do a review of Ch. 3 before moving on to the advanced tweening chapter (Ch. 7 in CS4 book).

Tuesday, 6/21

In the beginning of the class, we went through all the programs in the Master Suite and what they do.

We worked with Ch. 4, copying frames and working with layers. We learned how to draw on separate layers and then show the layers and move the objects around.

For Thursday's class, students are to work through Ch. 5, aligning objects.  We will work with the remaining part of the chapter in Thursday's class.

Flash, Classes 3 & 4

We watched the Powerpoints below and did a couple exercises, namely the first masking exercise (p. 120 of CS4 book) and "Adding a Motion Path to a Mask" (p. 124 of CS4 book).

From today through the next class, work on the rest of the exercises in Ch. 3. Also go to youtube and watch "The History of Animation, " Parts 1, 2, & 3. Also watch the computer animation video, which will appear on the same screen when you put in "history animation" in the search engine at youtube.

Next week, we will be working from Ch. 4.

We did not do "Programs in the Adobe Creative Suite."  We will look at them  next week.

Programs in the Adobe Creative Suite and What They Do

Flash Glossary

Introduction to Animation Powerpoint

Introduction to Animation Worksheet

Introduction to Frames Powerpoint

Introduction to Frames Worksheet

Class 2

We will discuss Flash file types.

Flash glossary.

Storyboard web site. 

Sketch out a storyboard project in small group

Learn about the drawing tools.

Flash Class 1

List of exercises.

We did an exercise in posting a Flash video on an html page. Unfortunately there were complications, as some students' files turned into another type of file. The instructor will go over this exercise and refine it. It will be distributed to students at a later date as a take-home exercise.

We did a tour of Flash. There is a .ppt associated with the tour which students can go over a second time.The link is posted in the links section of this blog.

We learned how to re-size the stage, how to play an animation, and save a Flash file.

At our next class, we will work from Ch. 2 and learn how to create simple drawings.

Dreamweaver Class

Our files we saved did not display correctly, so we went through the final few steps on the layout chapter using the "Finished" file.

We did the tutorial at the end of the forms chapter. We didn't get it finished. We will finish it at another class.

We saved tutorial handouts for the students who could not be in class tonight.

Next week Flash class starts. Students should try to have their Flash CS5 book. For the next class, students should read the Flash chapter in the Dreamweaver book.