CAS 175
Introduction to Flash
Current
Schedule - Spring 2009
Saturday, 1:00P- 5:50P
| January 6th through
March 19th |
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Class
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LAB
- what you should be doing or what's due
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1
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4/4 |
Attendance | Read Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Introduction to Course and Lab | |||
| Getting to know you | |||
| Introduction to Flash and former Student Assignments | |||
| Flash interface | Do Chapter 3 Exercises | ||
| Vector graphics vs. raster graphics | Do Chapter 4 Exercises | ||
| Drawing and coloring | |||
| Pen Tool | |||
| Types of Animation: Multi-keyframe, Tweening | |||
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2 |
4/11 |
Shape Tweening | Do Chapter 5 Exercises |
| Motion Tweening | Do Chapter 6 Exercises | ||
| Converting motion tween to multi-keyframes | Start Project 1 | ||
| Symbols and Instances | Do Chapter 8, Exercises 1 through 6 | ||
| Note: This will be a shorter class than normal | |||
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3 |
4/18 |
Challenge 1 explained | Project 1: Basic Animation Due |
| Guided Motion, Orientation | Do Chapter 7 Exercises | ||
| Timeline Effects | Do Chapter 8, Exercises 7 through 9 | ||
| Start Challenge 1 | |||
| Working with .bmp images | Do Chapter 9 Exercises | ||
| Converting images to graphic symbols, alpha | |||
| Fade effect using alpha and motion tween | |||
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4 |
4/25 |
Test 1 (Basic animation) | Challenge 1 Due |
| Start Project 2 | |||
| Project 2 explained | |||
| Exporting Flash to Animated GIF (not in textbook) | |||
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5 |
5/2 |
Project 3 explained | Project 2: GIF Avatar Due |
| Putting your Flash Animation in Web Page (not in textbook) | Chapter 8 Exercises Due | ||
| Uploading to SWS | Start Project 3 | ||
| Review for Test 2 | |||
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6 |
5/9 |
Test 2 (Flash ad, Uploading) | Project 3: Banner Ad in Web Page Due |
| Buttons and movie clip symbols | Do Chapter 10 Exercises | ||
| Nested movie clips | Start Project 4 | ||
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7 |
5/16 |
Constructing a Flash Web page | Chapter 10 Exercises Due |
| Timeline-based Navigation vs. Shell-based Navigation vs. linking to Web pages directly | Do Chapter 11 Exercises | ||
| Actionscript 3.0: URLRequest class, buttonClick function | |||
| Frame labels | |||
| Q&A about your Flash Web page | Project 4: Buttons Due | ||
| Start Project 5 | |||
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8 |
5/23 |
Storyboarding | Do Chapter 12 Exercises (optional) |
| Using sound with Flash | Do Chapter 14 Exercises (optional) | ||
| Challenge 2 explained | |||
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9 |
5/30 |
Q&A about your Final Movie | Project 5: Flash Web Page Due |
| Start Your Movie | |||
| Q&A about your Final Movie | |||
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10 |
6/6 |
work day (optional attendance) | Challenge 2 Due |
| work day (optional attendance) | |||
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11 |
6/13 |
No class | Your Final Movie Due |
| Meet with students by appointment. | |||