Final Flash Assignment June 10, 2008
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All students should be working hard on their final assignment for this marking period. By now you should have completed your 6 symbols (in the library) and have them named correctly. You will also be making one layer for each symbol that you are animating. Name your layers and it will make things easier for you.
When you complete the basic requirements you will be ready to add some other features to your animation.
- a start button
- an additional scene (perhaps with credits like a movie would have)
- a motion guide layer
- add sound bytes
The rubric and requirements for this assignment can be downloaded here. final-flash-animation-project
Symbols and the Library May 30, 2008
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A symbol is a reusable object used/created in Flash. A Symbol can be reused throughout your movie or imported and used in other movies. There are three types of symbols: Graphics, Buttons, and Movieclips.
Using flash symbols is very crucial to the file size of your Flash movie.
Get used to using symbols in flash right from the beginning and name them correctly for easy organization.
Symbols reside in the Flash library. You can drag multiple copies of a symbol from the library to the stage. Each copy of the symbol on the stage is an instance of the symbol.
Instances of symbols can have different colors, sizes, and behaviors.
Text and Tween Animations May 22, 2008
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You have all been busy creating wonderful text animations and attempting to put together everything you have learned about Flash and Tweening. I have created a web page where I will showcase the animations that you publish and copy to your class hand-in folder. For instructions on how to publish look at the chalk board in the classroom.
Flash Assignments and Portfolio Project May 1, 2008
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This marking period you will be responsible for creating a portfolio of Flash files that illustrate the concepts we are studying in class. All the files should be located in your Documents folder inside a folder named Flash. The worksheet has the correct names for each of the files. Flash Portfolio Check-Off
Tweening
Tweening is the technique that creates the in-between frames in an animation based on the first (starting frame) and the last (ending frame).
Tweening also requires keyframes. You need two keyframes for any tweened segement: one at the beginning and the other at the end of the segment. Frames that are between keyframe are called in-between frames.
All of your Flash assignments will be based upon this concept. You will be animating, or moving, objects around the stage, using a number of techniques that I will introduce to you at the beginning of each class.
February 08/ 3rd Marking Period Begins February 7, 2008
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If you haven’t handed your completed Scratch animation in to the hand-in folder, please do - that way I can post it on The Computer School website. I am also uploading projects to the Scratch MIT website, if you have nominations for what projects should be posted there, please let me know.
This week we start investigating programming concepts. The first one we will look at is SEQUENCE.
“In a sequence structure, an action, or event, leads to the next ordered action in a predetermined order. ”
Here are a couple of student examples from this week’s classwork:
Kaelyn
Omid
Scratch Animations Showcase! January 23, 2008
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I am in the process of posting the completed Scratch animations on the Computer School website. As students hand in their completed and peer reviewed files, I will post them to the website. Please take a look. You can also satisfy your peer-review assignment by reviewing one of the assignments from online, but you must fill out the peer-review sheet and turn it in for a grade.
