Introduction to Adobe flash [1]

• What is flash and what is it used for ?
• Ten years of macromedia

Animation techniques/history [2]

• Animation history
• Stop motion animation examples (king kong)
• Flash animation examples
  • Bitmap animation example (jib jab)
  • Vector animation example (final fantasy)

Introduction to The flash Interface [3]

• The stage
• The timeline
  • Showing the timeline
• The toolbar
  • Showing tools
• The menu bar
• The properties pane
• Introducing the panels
  • Showing and hiding panels
• Library panel
  • How to show the library panel
• Color Panel
  • How to show the color panel
• Alignment panel
  • How to show the alignment panel
• Creating a new document
  • Creating a new flash file
• Working in the flash environment I
  • Changing the stage size
  • Changing the stage color
  • Showing the ruler
  • Showing the grid lines
  • Save a workspace layout

Introduction to basic drawing tools [4]

• The difference between vector images and bitmap images
  • Bitmap illustration examples
  • Vector illustration examples
  • Using the zoom tool

• Basic vector drawing tools
  • The Line tool
    • Drawing simple lines
      • Setting line properties when drawing
    • The selection tool
      • Selecting a line path
      • Selecting multiple objects
      • Deselecting objects
    • The subselection tool
      • Selecting points
      • Moving end points of a line
    • The grab tool
    • Using the grab tool
    • Changing line properties using the properties panel
      • Change line height
      • Change line color
      • Change line style
  • The Rectangle tool
    • Using the rectangle tool
      • Create a simple rectangle
      • Create a perfect square
    • Fill
      • Change fill color
    • Stroke
      • Change stroke color I
      • Set stroke height
      • Set stroke style
  • The Oval tool
    • Draw a simple oval
    • Create a perfect circle
  • The ink bottle tool
    • Add a stroke outline to a shape
  • The Paint Bucket tool
    • Simple shape fill
  • The Text tool
    • Creating text
    • Changing text size
    • Changing text font
    • Changing test color
  • The Free Transform tool
    • Resize an object
    • Rescale and object
    • Set object height
    • Rotate object
    • Horizontally skew object

Creating symbols in flash [5]

• Why use symbols in flash?
• What is a graphic symbol ?
• What is a movie clip symbol ?
• The difference between a graphic and a movie clip symbol
  • Converting to a graphic
  • Converting to a movie clip
• Showing the library panel
• Selecting objects on stage
  
• Selecting multiple objects on stage
• Deselecting objects on stage
• Deleting objects on stage
• Dragging objects from the library
• Naming
  • Naming symbol instances using the properties panel (qs)
  • Symbol naming convention
• Demonstrating the concept of instances
  • Creating multiple instances of symbols (qs)
  • Transforming symbol instances (qs)
  • Deleting symbols from the library (qs)
  • Transforming symbols with the transform tool (qs)
  • Comparing transformation of objects and symbols (qs)
  • Editing symbols and editing objects in symbols (qs)
• Analyzing the advantage of using symbol instances (kb)

Working with images in flash [6]

• How to import an image onto the stage area
• Converting a bitmap into a graphic symbol
• Transforming images
  • Changing bitmap brightness levels
  • Changing bitmap color tint
  • Changing bitmap alpha
  • Changing bitmap size
  • Rotating bitmap images
• Editing bitmap images
• Erasing areas of a bitmap image
• Raterizing a bitmap image

 

Using timeline effects to create basic animations [7]

• How to create an expand effect
• Creating a blur effect
• Creating a drop shadow effect
• Creating an explode effect
• Creating a rolling ball

Frame by frame animation [8]

• The Timeline
• The concept of frames
• The concept of keyframes
• Frame rate
• The stage
• What is a scene?
• The Copy, paste and reposition technique
  • Adding frames and keyframes
    • Adding frames
    • Adding keyframes
  • Deleting Frames and keyframes
    • Deleting frames
    • Deleting keyframes (qs)
  • Clearing frames and keyframes
    • Clearing frames (qs)
    • Clearing keyframes
  • Copy and pasting frames and keyframes
    • Copy and paste frames (qs)
    • Copy and paste keyframes (qs)
  • Repositioning objects in flash
• Adjusting timing
  • Dragging keyframes
  • Dragging frames and keyframes
  • Changing the frame rate (qs)
• Simple flashing text animation using pure keyframe techniques

Tweening [9]

Animation Project I

• Animated sideshows
  • Importing images into the library
  • Dragging library images on to stage
  • Converting images to graphic symbols
  • Creating transitions in flash (qs)
  • Adding text to slides (qs)
  • Animating text (qs)
• The adventures of newton (pr)

Concurrent Animations [10]

• Animation layering
  • Why use layers in flash (kb)
  • Layer heir achy (kb)
  • Working with layers
    • Adding layers
    • Editing layers
      • Removing layers
      • Re-ordering layers
      • Locking layer
      • Hiding layers
      • Change layer name
• Working with movie clips
  • Dragging a mc instance from the library (qs)
  • Transforming a mc instance on stage (qs)
  • Moving in and out of movie clips on the timeline (qs)
  • Editing movie clips inside other movie clips (qs)
  • Deleting movie clips on stage (qs)
• Working with instances
  • The benefit of using movie instances (kb)
  • Creating multiple mc instances (qs)
  • Creating multiple graphic instances
  • Editing root files of multiple instances

• Nesting Movie clips
  • What is a nested mc ? (kb)
  • Creating a nested mc (qs)
  • Putting an animation inside a movie clip (qs)

Animation Project II

• Nested movie clip project
  • The flight of the bumble bee (pr)