Flash Basics


It's time to begin the main animation program used around the world. It's used to create small animated advertisements such as banners, full length cartoons, interactive website content, video games, videos, and the list continues. It's simply awesome, but you must understand the basics in order to be successful. Below are a few options to learn the basics.

You will be required to know specific tools and techniques for an upcoming quiz. Use the HELP .pdf for the information.
Your required reading for this unit is pages 10, 18, 91-96, 111-112, 126-131, 134

Download HELP .pdf here

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Below are websites that have free video tutorials for Flash basics that you can watch at school.

softwaretrainingtutorials

atomiclearning

 

Below are websites that have free video tutorials for Flash basics that you can watch at home.

dorklessons

viddler

 

For the first assignment in Flash you are to explore the tools and experiment by creating an abstract design using the criteria.

Turn in a Flash file with a canvas design that contains:
varied line thicknesses with gradients (131 & 134),
varied smoothnesses of strokes or shapes (111-112)
different colored filled objects (131),
an area of merged drawing objects (96),
an area of stacked overlapping drawing objects (95),
and a gradient (134).

Save it to the Z:"FlashBasicsDesign" as a .fla