Unit 4.0 | Introduction to Animation
Adobe Flash started as an web animation tool, but has become less important with changes in how web content is created. The software does however serve as a good introduction to timeline based animation software, and fits well within the framework of Adobe software learned in this course.
Topics coveredDocuments / Links / Activities Assessment
Video: “I’ll get the ice creams”
Video: “3 (blanks) walk into a bar”
Key Topics
Adobe Flash started as an web animation tool, but has become less important with changes in how web content is created. The software does however serve as a good introduction to timeline based animation software, and fits well within the framework of Adobe software learned in this course.
Topics coveredDocuments / Links / Activities Assessment
- The history of animation
- Storyboarding/planning
- Adobe Flash
- Animation HD (iPad)
- Flash completion tasks
- tutorial: basic interface
Video: “I’ll get the ice creams”
Video: “3 (blanks) walk into a bar”
- Video: How to Make and Use Storyboards
- Storyboard template PSD | JPG
- Video: How to use an Animatic
- Video: Imagine: From Pencils to Pixels
- Your first assignment for this unit is an animated flipbook
- Your second assessment will be based on a series of completion tasks created in Flash
- Your third assessment will be a skills test using Flash
Key Topics
- key terms and principles
- FL Interface
- FL drawing / animation
- movie clips, symbols and their timelines
- animating a scene
- masking in Flash
- keyboard shortcuts