COURSE MATERIAL & HANDOUTS

Flash: Intertactive Web Animation
Teachers: Ken Kimura
email: ken_kimura at lsrhs dot net
telephone: (978)443-9961 Ken Kimura: XT2221

Project 1: NAVIGATION SCENE (& Scripting)

Part 1: Design
Using what you’ve learned about controlled use of color and positive and negative space, design a Navigation “page” that will allow the viewer to click on buttons that play any of the other scenes in your project 1 file.

Guidelines:
  1. Design the scene such that the viewer has some sense of how to use the buttons.
  2. Limit the hues used in your design to three
  3. The buttons should contain an animation on “mouse over”
  4. The buttons themselves should be animated, ie. move onto the screen, fade in, morph into buttons etc.
Part 2: Scripting

Below is a diagram of how the scenes in your project should work
  1. Arrange your scenes so that the intro animation plays first, and the Navigation scene plays second.
  2. Add a “stop” script at the end of the navigation scene
  3. Add a “go to and play” script to the end of all your other scenes so that they return to the navigation page.
  4. Add scripts to the buttons so that they play their respective scenes

    IMPORTANT NOTE: When you add a script to a button, it only applies to the particular keyframe that the button is on. Adding new keyframes later in the timeline will duplicate any button scripts.
Edited 1-3-08