Animation in Flash

The course on ‘Animation in Flash' is designed to provide the Basic understanding about Animation. The aim of this course is to help the students to

1. Understand basics of 2D Animation.

2. Understand the Graphical User Interface of Macromedia Flash Software with practical demonstrations.

This course is divided into six different sections. The first section is Introduction of Flash Software which gives the idea about different components of Flash like Menu bar, Tool Bar, Stage area (Working Area), Properties inspector, Timeline panel, Layers window and different windows like Align, Transform, Color mixer and Color Swatches . The second section elaborates different types of symbols used in Flash like Graphic, Button and Movie Clip. The third section explains Layers part which includes performing various operations on layers. The fourth section is of Tweening which includes Motion and Shape Tweening. Next section is of Motion Guide layer which guides for object animation. Last section is of masking which elaborates how to control the content that your audience sees.

Topics include:

• Choosing a document type

• Working with panels and workspaces

• Importing bitmap into a project.

• Understanding the Toolbox.

• Understanding the Timeline and layer.

• Defining frames and keyframes

• Creating button, graphic, and movie clip symbols

• Building shape tweens and motion tweens

• Adding Motion Guide layer

• Applying masks.

• Understanding .FLA file and .SWF file.

• Understanding how to run .FLA and .SWF file.