COAP:COAP-2110/week2

(provisional, needs to be adapted to CS6)

Week 2 - COAP 2110

Topics

• Motion animation and embedded movie clips

Introduction to motion animation

• Previews: flash-cs-4-motion-tweening.html
• Handout: Flash CS6 motion tweening tutorial
• Summary: Flash animation summary (optional)

Guided motion animation (old style, optional)

• Previews: Flying rocket
• Handout: Flash classic motion tweening tutorial

Moving embedded movie clips

• Previews: flash-cs-6-motion-tweening-a-clip.html
• Handout (optional): 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.

The Flash file must includes:

• At least one motion tween (animation) of an object
• A motion tween (animation) that includes a frame-by-frame animation (can be the same as the above)
• Some sort of background

Submission date and format

• To be returned by Monday, at start of week 3 lesson
• Submit the *.fla file

• Upload the file to the world classroom (Blackboard)

Other constraints

• Reuse of artwork: 1/3 imported but customized, max. 2/3 imported as is. (You also can do everything by yourself).
• You can reuse prior homework.
• 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 (File->File Info...), 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. E.g. a flying bird that flaps its wings or a pulsating logo that moves from the back to the front.
• 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.