COAP:COAP-2110/week2

Week 2

Theme: Motion animation and embedded movie clips

Introduction to motion animation

• Previews: Moving cat, Moving, changing cat,
• Handout: Flash motion tweening tutorial
• Summary: Flash animation summary (optional)

Guided motion animation

• Previews: Flying rocket
• Handout: Flash motion tweening tutorial (same as above)

Symbols and embedded movie clips

• Previews: Flying Rocket and flash-cs3-motion-tweening-sun.html
• Handout: Flash embedded movie clip tutorial (only sections 2.1 to 2.4, i.e. skip the ActionScript parts)

Homework 2 - Week 2

Assignment

Think about a simple animation that you would like to create, e.g. something that could be part of an animated comic strip, of a moving logo, of an explanatory animation, etc. Then create a Flash file that includes:

• At least one motion tween (animation) of an object. Unless there is a good reason for not doing so, the tween should be guided.
• A frame-by-frame animation of the object that is tweened
• Some sort of background

Submission date and format

• To be returned by Monday, at start of week 3 lesson
• Use the following Flash file name familyname-firstname.fla, e.g.

miller-joe.fla

... I must be able to distinguish these files and we want to avoid overwriting.

• Upload the file to the Worldclassroom (Blackboard)

Other constraints

• Reuse of objects: 1/3 must be drawn by yourself, max. 1/3 imported but customized, max. 1/3 imported as is. (So you also can do everything by yourself).
• The motion animation must be made by yourself.
• Homework projects are individual. If you work with others, make sure that the individual projects differ, i.e. the "reuse of objects" criteria above apply.

Evaluation criteria - bonus and malus points

See grading form

The document description

You must document your fla file, i.e. fill in a document description using the the homework template

Hints

• Go for something that is simple
• Don't forget to add a little frame-by-frame animation of the object that is moving.
• Type of background depends on your objectives, it can be just a color.
• Use this exercise to prototype some feature of your term project.
• Remember the academic honesty policy ! Homework without credits given to external resources used will be refused.