Week 1: Flash Basics. (Assignment 1 given)
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Find your way around the flash environment
- Understand the Timeline
- Use rulers, grids and guides
- Be able to change your document properties
- Use the Property panel (inspector)
- Use the zoom tool
- Be able to draw simple graphics
- Be able to work and create colors
- Know how to change fill and stroke attributes
- Be writing with the text tool
- Modify text and paragraph attributes
- Be able to make detailed graphical selections
- Be able to modify simple graphics (flipping, rotating, skewing, distorting)
- Create more complex graphics on a single layer
- Create transparent objects
- Understand grouping
- Know how to change the stacking order of objects
- Be using the align tool
- Know how to combine objects together
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Create graphics on multiple layers
- Understand and organize layers
- Work with different types of layers (Guide, normal, Mask)
- Create layer folders
- Change layer properties
- Distribute graphics to layers
- Know how to import non-Flash graphics
- Know what formats you can import in Flash
- Be able to turn raster graphics into vector graphics
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Understand the Library panel
- Undestand why symbols are so important
- Create, modify and use symbols
- Know how to change one symbol into another
- Be duplicating symbols easily
- Create basic frame-by-frame animations
- Know the difference between frames and keyframes
- Know how to create/add/remove frames or keyframes
- Be able to preview your animations
- Understand and use Onion Skinning
- Be able to edit multiple frames
- Understand the notion of speed or Frame Rate in Flash
- Vary the speed of your animations
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Be able to animate with motion tweening
- Move, rotate, scale and create color effects for your graphics
- Move objects along a path you define
- Morph shapes into other shapes
- Create shapes that move as they change
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Understand how to create scenes
- Animate multiple tweens
- Reverse frames
- Use movie clip symbols
- Create animated masks
- Be able to create more complex animations
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Understand the Actions panel
- Understand some of the basics and possibilities of actionscripting
- Add actions to frames
- Assign frame labels and comments
- Create named anchors
- Control movie playback
- Create basic buttons
- Assign actions to your buttons
After completing this lesson, you'll:
- Be able to deliver movies to your audience
- Control movie placement in your browser
- Create HTML pages to play your Flash files
- Work with flash player settings
- Be able to export your movie in formats other than Flash
- Be able to create standalone .exe Flash Projectors
- Understand how to print from Flash