Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences 15.3 -10.4.2012
Adobe Flash is a design, animation and software authoring tool for creating rich internet applications.
This course is an intro to the basics of Flash (CS5) as drawing, web design and animation tool. The basics of Actionscript 3.0 programming language for creating interactive animation and a flash website are also introduced.
Course consists of tutorials and hands on excercises working on various design elements - drawings, text, images, animation, sound and video with actionscript for interactivity.
Course program outline:
- Graphic tools and animation
(15.3.)
- Flash interface
- panels
- Drawing tools
- Basics of animation
- Motion tween
- Gradient colors
- Symbols
(19.3.)
- Symbols, movieclips and library
- Importing photoshop, illustrator files to flash
- Using bitmap images
- editing library instances
- blend effects
- filters
- Animation (26.3.)
- Frame-by-Frame Animation
- animating position, transparency, filters, transformations
- motion path
- nested animations ( Animated button )
- easing
- using mask
- text element
- flash buttons
- popup window
- Actionscript basics 1 (27.3.)
- popup window in flash tutorial
- button eventhandler
- mouse interaction
- mouse controlled slider
- Actionscript basics 2 (2.4.)
- Loading image with code
- simple image gallery tutorial
- project work
- Actionscript basics 3 (4.4.)
- popup galleries tutorial
- buttons menu
- project work
- Sound and Video (10.4.)
- Using sound in flash
- Using video in flash
- Media encoder
- Publishing and Exporting for the web
- project work
- Project work submission DL 30.4.
- send work as zip file to jukka.ylitalo
metropolia.fi
- include fla and other source files
- include 1/2 -1 A4 written documentation about the project
- send work as zip file to jukka.ylitalo
Links
- flash
- Flash CS5 docs
- Learning Actionscript 3.0 pdf
- ActionScript 3.0 help PDF
- ActionScript® 3.0 Reference
- flashkit
- kirupa
- communitymx
- Media Encoder supported File formats for import
Web Tutorials
- creating buttons
- Button eventhandling: (Creating your first Flash Professional CS5 document)
- Basics of working with sound
- Animations Using the AS3 Tween Class
- Flash Tutorial: Creating a Simple Preloader
- Flash Drag and Drop
- Display list programming
- Using sounds in Flash
Extra links
- How to create a simple Flash/PHP mail contact form with Actionscript 3.0
- Blend modes
- Applying Flash Filters Using AS3
- learn-illustrator-cs5 using-enhanced-art-and-pattern-brushes
- Slider component
Flash site examples