Flash CS5 Course | Adobe Training Institute | Actionscript 3 Development | 2D Animation using Flash CS5

Getting started with Flash

• What Flash does and how it works
• About Vector graphics and Pixels
• Setting document properties - stage size,frame rate, background colour

Artwork

• Drawing in Flash - using the drawing tools,working with Drawing Objects and Shapes
• Working with colours, gradients, strokes etc.
• Transforming and combining elements

Imported Assets

• Pixel images - file formats, transparency,tracing, modifying, file size considerations
• Video - embedding video, and playing external FLV files.
• Sound - understanding audio file formats, compression and quality issues - adding audio to frames and buttons
• Importing artwork and complete layouts from Illustrator and Photoshop
• Creating an animated banner

Photoshop layout

• Importing animated SWF files
• Working with external libraries

Animation techniques

• Working with the timeline - understanding layers and frames
• Using Graphic and Movie Clip Symbols
• Motion Tweens, Classic Tweens & Shape

• Editing Tween paths
• Frame by frame animation
• Using Motion Presets
• Animating properties such as colour,
  transparency & brightness
• Animating filters - blur effects
• Using Motion Guides
• Adjusting tweens with the Motion Editor
• working with Scenes for larger projects

• Adding and importing text
• About font handling
• Choosing formatting options
• Choosing an anti-aliasing method
• Animating text elements

• Buttons - constructing simple and more complex buttons,hit areas, animated buttons
• Writing simple Actions - stopping a movie on
  a specific frame, linking to an external website
• Exporting and Publishing movies
• Outputting SWF files, HTML pages, animated gif and other content types
• Delivering Flash - Flash Player version and
  availability considerations

• Editing motion paths
• Adding keyframes by changing properties
• Using F6 to add keyframes
• Adding specific property keyframes
• Custom motion paths
• Modifying tween spans

• Unlocking the power of the Motion Editor
• Adding and removing property keyframes
• Saving and applying motion presets

Easing

• Using Bezier curves to create custom eases
• Controlling animations with ease curves
• Creating realistic bounces
• Reversing direction with easing

Classic Tweens

• When to use Classic or Motion Tweens
• Classic Motion Guide layers

Masks

• Controlling visibility with masks
• Combining motion guides with mask layers
• Making a reversed mask

Inverse Kinematics

• Using the Bones tool
• Linking elements
• Editing armatures
• Animating bones elements

3D

• Applying 3D transformations
• Animating images and objects in 3D space
• Creating a 3D video

Symbols

• Working efficiently with movie clips - managing multiple timelines
• Using multi-frame graphic symbols - colour cycling effects
• Using looping clips to create continuous movement