Keeping weird with Flash

Anne MorrisonThe Woodlands High School

The Woodlands, TX

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Odd Man Out

Crowbar

The Facility

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Contents

Flash Examples

Introduction: Flash Pencil and Brush

Shape Tween

Motion Tween

Flash Examples

My contact information

Anne Morrison

Website

http://twhs.conroeisd.net/teachers/amorrison

eMail

amorrison@conroeisd.net

Contents 2

Alpha Transparency

Rotate elbows and knees

Rotoball: The Rules

Rotoball Examples

Weird Flash Examples

Examples

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Found Out

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Eyes

QuickTime™ and aDV/DVCPRO - NTSC decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Drain You

QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Flash Pencil and brush

Practice with the tools, especially the pencil tool and the brush tool. Notice that Options appear at the bottom of the tool panel for the tool that is selected. Try all the options.

Flash

Shape Tween

A shape tween can change shape, move, rotate, resize, change color and transparency.

It cannot be a symbol.

Flash

Motion Tween

A motion tween can move, rotate, and resize.

It must be a symbol.

Flash

More wierd flash

Shape and Motion Tweens

QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aDV/DVCPRO - NTSC decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Alpha transparency

To make your shape fade

out or disappear change

the alpha in the color

mixer. Low percentages

are more transparent than

higher percentages.

Example Flash

Giants

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Rotate elbows & kneesUpper and lower arm or leg must be on separate layers and must be symbols.

Select the free transform tool.

Click on the first keyframe to select the part. Move the circle in the center of the symbol to the pivot point.

Make another keyframe on the timeline. More frames between key frames will make it move slower. Both parts of the limb must have the same keyframes, one directly above the other. Rotate the upper and lower parts on the new keyframes. The free transform tool will turn into a curved arrow when it is ready to rotate. A straight arrow will resize the shape.

Shift click keyframes after a cycle is completed to select all the frames. Choose Edit > Copy Frames. Then click on the frame just past the first cycle. Edit > Paste Frames.

ExampleFlash

QuickTime™ and aDV/DVCPRO - NTSC decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Flash supports Movies

Example

QuickTime™ and aDV/DVCPRO - NTSC decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Rotoball: The RulesEach animation must be exactly 15 seconds long.

The animation MUST contain the following:

You catching the ball from the left side of the screen.

The ball transforming in some way.

You interacting with the transformed object.

The ball returning to normal.

The ball leaving the right hand side of the screen

Cool Links

Craig Roland’s Website--http://artjunction.org/blog/

David Gran’s Website--http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com/

Rotoball on Vimeohttp://vimeo.com/4374316

My contact information

Anne Morrison

Website

http://twhs.conroeisd.net/teachers/amorrison

eMail

amorrison@conroeisd.net