Animation in Flash CS3


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number



Overview/Description
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional is a powerful application for creating impressive and dynamic vector-based animation. Its versatile workflow and production process allows the developer to quickly create animation that can be used in a wide variety of contexts. This course introduces the learner to animating in Flash. It steps through how to create tweened and frame-by-frame animations, and how to use masks to create a range of effects.

Target Audience
In-training or established IT professionals need to learn how to use Flash without any experience with the specific product.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation; experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Animation in Flash CS3

  • recognize how to create a frame-by-frame animation in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to preview an animation in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use onion skinning in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to create and manipulate a simple motion tween in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to copy motion as ActionScript in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use motion guides
  • recognize how to create a basic shape tween in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to tween objects using Break Apart in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use shape hints to control shape tweening in Flash CS3
  • add a motion tween in a given scenario in Flash CS3
  • copy motion as ActionScript in a given scenario in Flash CS3
  • add a motion guide in a given scenario in Flash CS3
  • add a shape tween in a given scenario in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to create masks in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to edit masks in Flash CS3
  • create an animated mask, in a given scenario, in Flash CS3
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