| Lesson |
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Week |
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| Lesson 1 |
Introduction
logging onto server
basic Macintosh skills
Working in Flash
Drawing with Flash |
1 |
| Lesson 2 |
Basic animation
Working in the timeline |
2 |
| Lesson 3 |
Working with symbols
Shape tween
staggering animation effect |
3 |
| Lesson 4 |
Animation Review
Break apart and distribute
Intro to Motion Guide
|
4 |
| Lesson 5 |
Motion Guide Paths
Mask layers
Button Intro
Intro to scripting |
5 |
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PROJECT
1 (PART 1)
|
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| Lesson 6 |
Setting up your project
Publishing movies |
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| Lesson 7 |
Working with custom colors and gradients |
6 |
| Lesson 8 |
Setting up scenes for first project
buttons and action scripting for project |
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| Lesson 9 |
Animated Buttons
Project 1 progress checklist |
7 |
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PROJECT
1 (PART 2)
|
|
| Lesson 10 |
Design Workshop
Introduction to Photoshop
- using the scanner
- optimizing bitmap images
- saving PNG files
- filters
|
8 - 9 |
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PROJECT 2
|
10 |
| Lesson 11 |
Bouncing Ball
|
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| Lesson 12 |
More Flash Drawing Skills
- Sub selection tool
- Bezier manipulations
|
|
| Lesson 13 |
Designing a character for Flash Animation
- The concept of limited animation as pioneered by Hanna Barbera
Using Symbols - setting useful center points
Organizing Your Library
Arc Motions |
11 |
| Lesson 14 |
Anticipation - Secondary Motion
(Information Flow) |
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| Lesson 15 |
Walk Cycle
Run Cycle
Managing Layers |
12 |
| Lesson 16 |
Editing audio
Phonemes - Lip Syncing
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PROJECT 3
|
13 |
| Lesson 17 |
Design Workshop |
14 - 15 |
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PROJECT 4
|
16 |
| Lesson 18 |
Design Workshop
|
17-18 |
