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Flash Basics


It's time to begin the main animation program used around the world. It's used to create small animated advertisements such as banners, full length cartoons, interactive website content, video games, videos, and the list continues. It's simply awesome, but you must understand the basics in order to be successful. You're required to know specific tools and techniques for the upcoming quiz. Use the HELP .pdf or watch a series of video tutorials to learn the information.
Here's a site with video tutorials.
Your required reading are pages 10, 18, 91-96, 111-112, 126-131, and 134. Download HELP .pdf here

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For your first Flash assignment explore the tools and experiment by creating an abstract design using the criteria below.
Here's another website with basic Flash video tutorials to help learn the basics.

Here's Flash video tutorials that you can watch at home.

 

Your Flash design should contain the following criteria:
varied line thicknesses with gradients (131 & 134)
different colored filled objects (131)
an area of merged and moved drawing objects (96)
an area of stacked overlapping drawing objects (95)
a shape with a gradient (134)
Save to the Z:"FlashBasicsDesign" as a .fla