When the Day Breaks

Watch When the Day Breaks



Listen to this video. Notice how the sounds relate to the characters, or not. Visualize the sounds think about how the sounds tell the story without the visuals.
How sound can alter your animation? Consider your time line and how to add sound effectively to your motion.

Animation Sharing

First part of the class, we are going to have a work block. I am going to help everyone out. After lunch, we are going to have a sharing. Please save your animation to the share file under "Animation #1".

Here are a few Flash animation to check out after our sharing...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pencilmation1
http://www.homestarrunner.com/
http://www.paulfrank.com/home/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNVE37BGVE

More Animation

Today I am going to demonstrate the following:
Movie Clip
Gradient Tool
Transform
Info
Shaila is going to show how to use the Bone tool.
And a few new tools as the interest comes up.

Flash Demo2

2nd Flash Demo-
Today we are going to explore the Drawing abilities of Flash:

• Using the pencil + attributes- stroke.
• The Brush tool + attributes- painting inside, fills etc...
• Fill tool- closing gaps
• Sub-Selection lool
• The eraser
• Editing your symbol
• Break Apart your symbol
• Try a shape tween

Animator vs Animation

Flash Animation

Today we are going to learn how to draw and animate in Flash. Flash is a fun program that makes animation easy... well it takes a bit of time to learn, but there are many things it can do. It can help you create digital animations, help you design games, and help generate cool websites. I say it can help, because you are the designer and creator, you have to make the choices to create your piece.

Here's an intro to Flash
Animator vs. Animation


We are going to learn about the following:

• The stage
• Tool bar
• Document set-up
• Frame by frame animation
• Creating a symbol
• Key frames
• Motion tweening
• Scale
• Colour- Tone/alpha

FlipOff

We are going to look at each other's flip books! Put your name and name of book on the envelope and slip it inside of your flipbook. Then you are going to put your book into the hand-in box. Everyone will take a book- flip through a few times and write a comment about the book on a sheet of paper. Topics to consider story, imagery, motion, sequencing... Flip through 15+ Pass it on.

Reflect on your Flip Book using Word, save to your file on the network called flip book:

1. Was the story clearly told/illustrated? How could it improve?
2. Is the motion smoothe?
3. Is there a beginning, conflict and resolution?
4. How is the character established?
5. Is the ending effective- why or why not?
6. How would you do it differently