Flash Tips

Flash Tips: 
The intention of this class is not to go deep into the Flash program. However, if you would like to practice some of the basics during lab time here is some information and links to videos that will give you further information. Have fun

Animating Text

Ball Bounce

Sketching in Flash

February 16, Homework Drawing Project

165 Students:

Draw yourself as if you were 99 years old. Do not hide yourself in a coffin or a tube, show yourself, have fun with wrinkles. Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. No Graphite! and add black ink. No need to color your drawings, 

Full Page. We will check them out in class. Have fun!

Yep... its me!

166 Students:

Work on character sketches of your movies main

characters.

Feb 11, Homework

165 Students:
Homework... this happens in steps
1. Create Anthropomorphized characters for your next animation 
in the 20-30's style. 
A. Sun
B. Cloud
C. Tree
2. Ink your drawings and be ready to present on Tuesday at the start of class.
3. Read attached handouts on the leaf drop project.
4. On Tuesday we will put it all together.

Use the video as inspiration when 

creating your background.

166 Students:

February 9, Drawing Homework

165 Students:

Draw yourself as if you are  a  Charles M. Schulz  cartoon character. Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. No Graphite! and add black ink. No need to color your drawings, Full Page.

We will check them out in class. Have fun! 

Yep! the one below is me!

This one is just for fun! A page full of monsters in the same style!

Ball Bounce

Tonight in class:

Ball Bounce

Look at pg. 84-95 in the textbook.

Create a ball bounce in Flash, in about 2 hours, it will consist of: 

1. Title Card: 

A. 3 seconds long

B. Display your full name, and name for the cartoon, (You pick the name)

2. Body of movie: 

A. Before bringing the ball onto the stage wait 2 seconds.

B. The ball should be about the size of a quarter.

C. The ball drops in from a above.         

D. It must continue bouncing until it comes to a full and complete stop.          

E. After the ball has come to a complete stop pause for two seconds before

cutting to the end card.

3. End Card:

A. 3 seconds long

B. Must say the end.

Please export the movie as a .mov file

place into Ball Bounce folder in scratch.

For more information Look at pg. 84-95 in the Richard Williams textbook.

February 4, Homework

Nice Job Tonight with your Flash movies.

165 Students:

Draw yourself as if you are in a 1920's-30's "Rubber Hose"  style cartoon. Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. No Graphite! and add black ink. No need to color your drawings, Full Page.

We will check them out in class. Have fun! 

166 Students:

Work on the drawings for your second and third character spins.

February 2, Homework

Great job drawing tonight!

Here are a couple of the Poe Heads

 165 Students

1. In your sketchbook on the same page draw one republican and one democratic presidential candidate from the current race. Draw with red or blue pencil then add ink. make sure to use two different pens, thick & thin. We will look at them on Thursday.

2. On Thursday, scan in the inked page with the four caricatures of yourself that you created in class. I will have a folder set up in scratch on Thursday.

3. On Thursday we will create our first animation in Flash.
4. We will also look at your Simpson Drawings on Thursday. 

166 Students:

On Thursday at the end of class,

your first character spin is due. These do not need to be inked. I want them to be kept in pencil incase some part of the drawing needs to be adjusted. 

Here is the link to the Al Hirschfeld portion of Fantasia 2000