COAP:COAP-2110

Introduction

I use materials I developed in this wiki for my Fall I 2007 Webanimation course (COAP 2110) at Webster University, Geneva.

This page does not replace the official syllabus file, but it allows students to navigate more efficiently through the materials

• Alternatively, start from the Flash article

Course level learning outcomes (roughly)

1. Know the organization and tools of the Macromedia CS3 Flash Desktop
2. Create simple drawings
3. Frame-by-frame animations
4. Creating and using layers
5. Using motion and shape tweening to create animations
6. Reusable Flash: symbols, instances and templates
7. Incorporating non-Flash media files (graphics, sound and video)
8. Create animated Splash pages in Flash
9. Simple interactivity in Flash, e.g. image maps and menus

Teaching materials

• This wiki (see the program below)
• Veer, E.A. Vander and Chris Grover (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN 0596510446 - 527 pages.
  • O'Reilly page for the book
  • Missing CD-ROM, materials used in the book.
• Flash Tutorials on the Internet
  • See the Flash article for some good links

Program

The program will be ajusted according to students' progress. However, grading scheme, homework policy and such will remain stable.

Week 1

Elements of the Flash Desktop

• Handout: Flash CS3 desktop tutorial

Creating simple Drawings

Topics: Stage size, Drawing modes, Selecting objects, Drawing and painting tools, Erasing and alignment, Colors, Adding text

• Handout: Flash drawing tutorial

Simple use of Layers

• Handout: Flash layers tutorial

Importing clipart and textures

• Handout:Clipart and texture (in particular to find such resources)

Week 2

Frame-by-frame animation

• Previews: Shakin hello, Rocket
• Handout: Flash frame-by-frame animation tutorial

Introduction to motion animation

• Previews: Moving cat, Moving, changing cat, Flying Rocket
• Handout: Flash motion tweening tutorial

Week 3

More about drawing / Transformation of graphic objects

• Handout: Flash object transform tutorial

Shape tweening

• Previews: [flash-cs3-shape-tweening-intro.swf Simple shape morph], Simple shape and motion morph, traced bitmaps morph
• Handout: Flash shape tweening tutorial

Week 4

(later)