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2D Animation with Flash 8.0

About Workshop

This 15-day-evening training program is to be held on every SUN-TUE-THU during 6:00pm to 9:00pm with 30 minutes tea break and during Ramadan 5:00pm – 8:30pm with 30 min. Iftar break. The course is of 5 weeks with total 45 hours.

Workshop topics to be covered:

Class 01:
• Demonstrate Flash concepts
• Understand bitmap and vector graphics
• Demonstrate basic knowledge on symbols and instances
• Create a new document from a template
• Save a document
• Open an existing document
• Save a document as template
• Modify the grid and use rules
• Demonstrate basic knowledge on timeline
• Basic usage of controller and toolbars
• Demonstrate basics on toolbox, layers and panels
• Apply knowledge on using the Flash document library
• Demonstrate knowledge of usage of context menus
• Apply knowledge on customizing the workspace

Class 02:
• Tools panel’s drawing and modification tools & Sub selection tools.
• Tools panel’s drawing and modification tools & Sub selection tools and property inspector.

Class 03 & 04:
• Symbol essentials
• Symbol types
• Graphic symbols
• Modifying symbols
• Working with multiple Libraries
• Button symbols
• Button states
• Movie clip symbols
• Movie clips and the main Timeline
• Sharing symbols
• Grouped objects
• Symbols within symbols
• Snap Align
• The grid, Rulers and guides
• Alignment and Align panel
• Stacking order
• Distribute to Layers option
• Layer folders
• History panel

Assessment of Unit: This unit may be assessed by taking quiz before next class: include 10 questions on the above mentioned unit.

Class 05:
• Color primer
• Custom colors
• Persistent custom colors
• Gradient color, Making the gradient
• Using light and shade with gradients
• Applying gradients to objects and modifying them
• Overflowing fills
• Locking fills & Bitmaps
• Using bitmap images in Flash
• Tracing bitmaps
• Optimizing bitmaps
• GIF files
• Understanding transparent GIFs
• Understanding animated GIFs
• JPEG files
• Fireworks files

Class 06:
• What is motion tweening
• Animation revisited
• Motion tweens
• Scaling objects in motion tweens
• Easing
• Options for editing your animations

Class 07:
• Using onion skins
• Editing multiple frames
• Motion tween effects
• Color change animations
• Motion guides

Class 08:
• What is shape tweening
• Shape tweens
• How shape tweens work
• Irregular shapes
• Common tweening text effects
• Natural-looking tweens
• Tweens with color
• Shape tween modifiers
• Shape hints
• Case study

Class 09:
• What is a mask?
• Animated masks and masking multiple layers
• Using masks with text

Class 10:
• Timeline effects
• Other kinds of timeline effects
• Assistants
• Effects
• Transform/transition
• Filters

Class 11:
• Blend modes
• Nested blend modes
• Layer blending
• Alpha blending
• Erase blends

Class 12:
• Events and event handlers
• Buttons as interactive elements
• Symbols on their own do not create interactivity
• Movie clips and buttons only behave on a timeline
• Creating animated buttons
• Creating buttons that talk
• The features of behaviors
• Attaching behaviors to frames and buttons

Class 13:
• Understanding scripting
• Action Script vs. behaviors
• Scripts, programs, and code—it’s all Geek/Greek to me
• Programming and scripting
• Scripting and animation
• Camel case
• Indenting
• Use code blocks often
• The Flash scripting environment
• Writing your first script
• Linking your movie to a URL

Class 14:
• Sound on the Web
• Flash and MP3
• Creating sound
• Importing and exporting sound with Flash
• Using sound in Flash
• Attaching sounds to the Timeline

Class 15:
• Web formats
• Flash
• Animated GIFs
• QuickTime
• Putting on the show
• Flash file publishing options
• GIF, JPEG, and PNG
• QuickTime movies
• Projector files
• Uploading your files to the host server

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