Creating Multimedia Projects!

 

 

 


Adobe Flash

Create web animation with Flash!

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FLASH MX - WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

WEEK ONE LESSONS

Macromedia Flash8 – Download and Information about Flash

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/productinfo/features/

DOWNLOAD FLASH 8

What is Flash? - This is what their Flash product page says:

"Macromedia Flash 8 allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces. Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform, used by over one million professionals and reaching more than 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide, as well as a wide range of devices."

Learn about the Tools in Flash MX Tutotoral - This Flash Movie Tutorial is large. YOU WILL NEED TO USE YOUR SCROLLBAR AT TIMES TO SEE THE ENTIRE MOVIE.

Learn about the Timeline in Flash MX Tutotoral -FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL.

How to Create a Shape Tween in Flash MX - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

How to Save Flash Files - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIALl

How to Create a Motion Tween in Flash MX - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

How to Create a Frame by Frame Animation in Flash MX - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL - USE F6 FOR INSERTING THE KEYFRAMES.

How to Create a Motion Tween - Part 2 - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

How to Change the Background Color - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Publishing Flash Files for the Internet - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Flash Files Type - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Adding a Stop Script to Flash - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Download RainyEvening.gif - Graphic to Practice Creating a Motion Tween or Use Your Own Images. To Download, Right Click on Image and select Save Picture As

Download RainyEvening.jpg - Graphic to Practice Creating a Motion Tween or Use Your Own Images

How to Create a Shape Tween in Flash MX - WEB LESSON

How to Create a Motion Tween in Flash MX - WEB LESSON

WEEK TWO- THREE ACTIVITIES

MickyLive Great Movie Tutorials - EXCELLENT BUT CHALLENGING PRACTICE - SUGGESTION: WATCH ONLY THE FIRST MOVIE UNLESS YOU WANT TO JUMP AHEAD - GO FOR IT!

The completed HTML and SWF file for you to view. 

See an example of how one student enhanced this web site template. 

The students made one mistake – she didn't place an invisible button over each of her top links and over her link to the external web sites. You will learn how to create invisible buttons to cover text hyperlinks. NOTICE HOW THE LITTLE BROWSER NAVIGATION HAND SHOWS UP AND THEN DOESN'T SHOW AS YOU ROLL OVER HER TEXT HYPERLINKS AT THE TOP.

Creating a 4-Button Web Site Introduction - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Adding Stop Actions to 4-Button Web Site - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Creating Buttons for 4-Button Web Site - To open your library in Flash, click on F11. FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Add Action Scripts to Buttons for 4-Button Web Site - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

Creating a Button THAT LINKS TO ADOBE.COM Movie Tutorial by Professor Genny Espinosa. You can create the rollover.fla she tells you to open - obviously you don't have it.

Another Creating a Rollover Button Movie Tutorial by Professor Genny Espinosa.

Creating Invisible Buttons for 4-Button Web Site - FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

More About Invisible Buttons - More information about creating Invisible Buttons

Common Flash Mistakes - More information about creating Invisible Buttons

How to Add Sound to Flash -- FLASH MOVIE TUTORIAL

How to Create a Slide Show in Flash - WEB LESSON - CURRENTLY BEING REVISED WITH NEWER VERSION OF FLASH UPDATES - ONLY FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO JUMP AHEAD IN LEARNING FLASH

Check out these Interesting Web Site Links

AnimationTutorials

Cool Flash Tutorials - GREAT PRACTICE

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/ - PDF Documentation about Flash - a reference document mainly.

MORE LEARNING LINKS

Macromedia Flash Developer Center

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/

Animation Killer Tips for Flash MX 2004

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/animation_tips.html

Using Flash for the First Time–Part 1: Building a Banner

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/intro_flash.html?trackingid=BGIQ

Drawing in Flash: A Beginner's Introduction to the Flash MX 2004 Drawing Tools

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/beg_drawing.html

Animation in Macromedia Flash: Squash and Stretch

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/squash_stretch.html

Macromedia Flash Animation: Creating Lifelike Motion Blur Effects

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/motion_blur.html

Drawing and Animating a Character in Macromedia Flash MX 2004

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/animate_character.html

Animation: Flash Shape Tweening Techniques

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/tween_macrochat.html

CHECK OUT THESE TUTORIALS

http://www.keyframer.com/main/kf_main.htm

ADVANCED INFORMATON ABOUT ADDING SOUND TO FLASH

http://www.kennybellew.com/tutorial/

Difficult to less difficult

If you're interested in learrning how Flash can creat content for mobile phones with Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you're in luck. View the Flash Lite 1.1 presentation to find out more about Flash Lite and learn how easy it is to get started.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/articles/flashlite_training.html

 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/ - Cool Flash Developer Info

 http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flashpro/video/gallery/ - Video Gallery

  http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/toonboom.html - ToonBoon Studio Articles

 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/precision_drawing.html - Flash Drawing Methods Using ActionScripting

 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/sample_files/ - Lots of Cool Samples Files for You

Sample Tutorials and Cartoons to Views

http://www.toddgallina.com/how/2.html - Learn How to Draw cartoons in Flash

 

 

 
   
       
 
   
 
 

 

  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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