COAP:COAP-2110

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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
  • Veer, E.A. Vander and Chris Grover (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN 0596510446 - 527 pages.
  • 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
Creating simple Drawings

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

Simple use of Layers
Importing clipart and textures

Week 2

Frame-by-frame animation
Introduction to motion animation

Week 3

More about drawing / Transformation of graphic objects

See Flash object transform tutorial

Shape tweening

See Flash shape tweening tutorial

Week 4

(later)