Flash Basics

 

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:

  1. Graphic tools and animation (15.3.)
    • Flash interface
    • panels
    • Drawing tools
    • Basics of animation
    • Motion tween
    • Gradient colors
  2. Symbols (19.3.)
    • Symbols, movieclips and library
    • Importing photoshop, illustrator files to flash
    • Using bitmap images
    • editing library instances
    • blend effects
    • filters
  3. 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
  4. Actionscript basics 1 (27.3.)
  5. Actionscript basics 2 (2.4.)
  6. Actionscript basics 3 (4.4.)
  7. Sound and Video (10.4.)
    • Using sound in flash
    • Using video in flash
    • Media encoder
    • Publishing and Exporting for the web
    • project work
  8. Project work submission DL 30.4.
    • send work as zip file to jukka.ylitaloaaaattttmetropolia.fi
    • include fla and other source files
    • include 1/2 -1 A4 written documentation about the project