Week 12: Using Components and Closed Captioning

Review:
-using the the flv video component in flash, and converting .mov files to .flv using import video.
- if you are interested in flash cartoon animation, a new book has been released.

New Concepts:
- using the flv captioning component - (w3c specification for the xml file)
- textArea component
- ui loader component
- tilelist component
- quickly using actionscript to link the tilelist component to the ui loader component in order to create a dynamic slideshow presentation. (using only four lines of code!!)

Download Class Files.

and if you feel really comfortable with components check out this custom component created by Grant Skinner that does fire effects.

Assignment:

email mcarolin@mtsac.edu or hand in your proposal for final project. Your final project can be an animation, website, or other flash related project.

The proposal document should answer the following questions:

• what is your .swf's framerate
• what is your animations time duration (non linear content is infinite)
• what is your .swf's dimensions (width and height)
• estimate how much time will you need to finish the project
• The objective or goal of your project

Your proposal should also dictate the scope of your project by an outline. For example, if your final project is an animation, then I expect to see an outline of your animation with storyboards of your key frames. If you are doing a website, then I expect to see a site outline that details sections, subsections, links, and content.

Week 11: Team Building Animation

Review:

-Using Blend modes to create movieclip animation effects particularily wipes and fades with an alpha gradient.
-Creating nested guide layers to make unpredictable animatons.


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Video:





New Concepts:
- corporate logo animation team building...

Team Fedex



Team Mattell



Team McDonald's



Team Paramount



Team Walmart


Assignment:

No Assignment this week! Continue working on past due projects.

Week 10: loading text, images, swfs, and video dynamically

Review:
Dynamic text fields and naming instances of stage movieclips or textfields so we may access them in actionscript.


New Concepts:
Introduced loading external XML, SWF, image, and video files into a flash movie dynamically.


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Video:





Assignment:

Create a .swf movie that dynamically loads an image, xml, or video. Then, take that loaded content and animate it. Use the class files and video as your guides. Due Dec. 8.

Assignment Schedule Update

Mashup Video: Due October 6.
Moon Assignment: Due October 20.
Choose Your Own Adventure Story: Due November 3.
Website Screen Build: Due November 10.
Integrated Loader: Due Novemeber 17.
Dynamically Loaded Content: Due December 1.
Final Project and Presentation: Due December 16.

Need Extra Flash, After Effects Help!!!

Do you need extra Flash, After Effects, or general computer tutoring?

Jonathan Cole (our supplemental instructor) will be available for help outside of class time.

Please email him for scheduling. email at madcat80t@hotmail.com

Week 9: Intro to Actionscript Animation

Review:

Today we learned about different artists/programmers that use flash to make dynamic interactions and generative art.

Relavent links:
http://yugop.com/
http://jot.eriknatzke.com/
http://joshuadavis.com/
http://incomplet.gskinner.com/


New Concepts:

• creating animation with actionscript
• introduced to code that makes a MovieClip move back and forth across the screen while changing speed and direction.
• animating a MovieClip to a sin wave.
• see notes in Class files on actionscript
  

Class Files

Click on the grey screen!! Happy Halloween.


Videos:

Please reference class files when viewing videos.

Intro to Actionscript Animation



Generative Art making with actionscript



Assignment:

-Continue working on choose your own adventure story and screen build animation. Feel free to add some scripted animation to these projects.

Week 8: Website Screen Build

Review:

-links shown in class as examples of people doing lip-synching animations in flash

• MediaStorm: Low Morale: Creep by Radiohead and Laith Bahrani - Low Morale: Creep is a music video of Radiohead's 'Creep' song. The animation is a cathartic opus that aims to express the despair caused by a soul-destroying job and the pain of a broken relationship. Warning: may cause depression.
• ALIEN PERFORMANCE ART - zefrank.com

-sites to keep current on interactive animation and design

• The FWA: Favourite Website Awards - Web awards at the cutting edge - Favourite website awards. Web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design.
• Communication Arts: Interactive
• Newstoday - For a better tomorrow

-sites shown as examples of the screen build. Animations range from simple to complex solutions.

• Studios Apollo - Les studios Apollo. Plus qu'une compagnie. Un atelier de création. Un son qui se démarque. Des services musicaux de première qualité.
• EnBW Spamrecycler
• QUITDOINGIT.COM - The Quit Doing It Labs is your resource for the most innovative tools to help you quit tobacco, including the Colorado QuitLine and the all new FixNixer
• RAGNAROK_Online
• Defy All Challenges - Microsoft Visual Studio - Product Information and Machinima Videos
• Get the Glass!

New Concepts:

• integrating a loader into a website animation
• creating an engaging animation that conceptually ties in with your content
• conceptualing how your site forms from a blank screen - the simplest version of a screen build would be to fade all your content in from black, a more complex or elegant solution may involve revealing content based upon need or conceptual goal.
  

Screenbuild example:



Assignment:

• Create your own screen build
• the final screen must have a header/logo or conceptual equivalent
• a way to navigate to different sections (buttons)
• some sort of content (your stuff anything, seriously anything)

Download class files.