ICT

• Tweened animation


  Creating the first and last frames of an animation and directing Adobe® Flash® to create the frames in between
• Creating animation in an Adobe® Flash® document

  Changing the contents of successive frames
• Changes that can occur in animation

  • Object moving across the stage
  • Increasing or decreasing size
  • Rotating
  • Changing color
  • Fading in or out
  • Changing shape
• Changes can occur independently or in content with other changes
• For example, one can make an object rotate and fade out as it moves across the stage
• 12 Basic Principles of Animation

  • Squash and Stretch
  • Anticipation
  • Staging
  • Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose Animation
  • Follow-through and Overlapping Action
  • Slow-out and Slow-in
  • Arcs
  • Secondary Action
  • Timing
  • Exaggeration
  • Solid Drawing
  • Appeal
• Squash and Stretch


  Illusion of weight and volume in a character as it moves, best used in animating dialogue and facial expressions
• Anticipation


  Prepares the audience for a major action the character is about to do, character performs a short movement first before the next action
• Staging


  Pose or action should be part of the play to show the character's attitude, mood, reaction, or idea; effective use of close-up shots and camera angles helps tell the story
• Straight Ahead Animation


  Starts at the first drawing and works from drawing to drawing until the end of a scene, good for showing spontaneity and freshness

  
• Pose to Pose Animation


  More planned out and charted with key drawings done at intervals, better controls size, volume, and proportions

  
• Follow-through and Overlapping Action


  Nothing stops all at once, other parts slowly move to have continuity in action; character changes direction while clothes/hair continues forward
• Slow-out and Slow-in


  Soften the action, more drawings make the action slower and more life-like
• Secondary Action


  Adds to or enriches the main action, adds more dimension to the character's animation
• Timing


  Variety of slow and fast timing within a scene adds texture and interest to the movement, establishes mood, emotion, and reaction
• Exaggeration

  Principle of appeal, shows a caricature of facial features, expressions, poses, attitudes, and actions, using good taste and common sense
• Adobe® Flash® files can be very small, making bandwidth less of a concern
• Image file types supported by web browsers

  • GIF (.gif or Graphics Interchange Format)
  • JPEG (.jpeg/ .jpg or Joint Photographic Experts Group)
  • PNG (.png or Portable Network Graphics), also known as Ping files
• Movies exported using Adobe® Flash®


  Can be viewed in the Flash® Player, or as a Flash® stand-alone projector to be viewed with a self-contained Flash® Player included within the movie itself
• Adobe® Flash®


  • It is the professional solution for producing high-impact Web experiences
  • With Adobe® Flash®, interactive vector-based websites and desktop applications can be created
  • The familiar Adobe® Flash® user interface makes it easy to create dazzling graphics and quickly create complex animations, navigation controls, and even complete multimedia websites
  • Adobe® Flash® may be used to create advanced web applications using scripting, forms, and server-side connectivity
• Adobe® Flash® movies

  They are compact vector graphics that download rapidly and scale to the viewer's screen size
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• Adobe® Flash®


  A software application for creating and editing vector graphics, animations, and multimedia content

  
• Adobe® Flash® interface


  • Main Menu
  • Toolbox
  • Timeline
  • Stage (Workspace)
  • Panels

  
• Main Menu


  1. File Menu

  2. Edit Menu

  3. View Menu

  4. Modify Menu

  5. Text Menu

  6. Window Menu

  
• Edit Menu


  Provides options for copying, cutting, and pasting, as well as Adobe® Flash®-specific options such as copy frames and edit symbol. Also where one can customize keyboard shortcuts or edit preferences.

  
• Text Menu


  Provides options for changing the font, font size, style, alignment, and tracking for any text on the stage

  
• Hand Tool


  Moves the stage around
• Zoom Tool


  Zooms in or out of the movie being created
• Stroke Color Modifier


  Selects colors for the line and pencil tools

  
• Fill Color Modifier


  Selects colors for the brush, paint bucket, and text tools

  
• Default Colors


  Sets the stroke and fill color tools to their default setting of black (stroke) with white (fill)
• No Color Modifier


  When using the oval, rectangle, or pen tools, one can use the No color tool to turn off either the stroke or the fill
• Layers


  Contain the actual content of the movie
• Playhead


  Shows which frame is currently visible on the stage
• Stage


  The large, white, rectangular area in the middle of the Adobe® Flash® interface where the movie is created
• Work area


  The gray area surrounding the stage where one can draw, but most actions will take place on the stage
• Dimension Setting


  Determines the height and width of the stage
• Background Color


  Determines the color of the stage, which is the same throughout the movie
• Panels


  • Info Panel
  • Transform Panel
  • Stroke Panel
  • Fill Panel
  • Align Panel
  • Mixer Panel
  • Swatches Panel
  • Character Panel
  • Paragraph Panel
  • Text Options Panel
  • Instance Panel
  • Effect Panel
  • Frame Panel
  • Sound Panel
  • Clip Parameters Panel
  • Scene Panel
  • Generator Panel