Tutorial 5: Flash
Interactive
Motion & Sound
2D Animation Lecture notes
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Objectives
Students will use and build on skills presented in DMT, using Flash interface
elements, commands and tools to construct a 2D interactive vector
animation with integrated audio.
Previewing Flash's Help>Flash
Lessons will also be be useful.
Skills Used
Tools and techniques covered in this tutorial:
Basic Concepts
• Using the Flash interface: Toolbar, Stage,
Timeline, Library and other panels
• Creating a new Flash Movie
(.fla) and setting properties (pixel dimension, frame rate)
• Saving native Flash files (.fla) and exporting/publishing a Flash
Player Movie (.swf)
Animation & Scripting
• Keyframes
• Motion tweening
• Shape tweening (morphing)
• Symbols - Button, Graphic, Movie
• Actions - stop, start, go to
Drawing
• Lines and Shapes (Pencil, Line and Pen tools)
• Stroke and Fill (stroke size and style, fill color)
• Shapes and Brushes
• Selection (lines and fills, segmenting, grouping)
• Transformations and Reshaping (scale, rotate, skew,
align, modify shapes
Requirements
Follow the steps to create an animation
based on the example shown.
Submit: Native Flash file (.fla), uploaded to to the
appropriate section of VS2/Coursework/ART 250.
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