Homework
1. Take your walkcycle exercise from this week, and, using what we learned today, do the following:
- Turn your walkcycle into a symbol so it can walk continuously for the length of a longer movie.
- Create a scene for your character to walk through. It should have at least two layers. Create this scene outside of Flash in Photoshop or Illustrator, and then import the layers into Flash
- Integrate the walk and the scene in Flash. You can choose to either move the character across the scene, or have the scene scroll behind the character.
Project 1: Create an Animated Valentine’s Day ECard
Create a 15-30 second animated greeting card with a Valentine’s Day theme. Here’s some inspirations:
You will have two weeks to complete this project, the final animated version will be due February 21st.
Due Next week: Storyboards. You can either do this in Photoshop or Illustrator, or right in Flash. Bring the storyboards in as a PDF so we can review them in class. Your storyboards should represent each major statement of the animation, we should be able to look at them at get a very good sense of the look and flow of the finished piece. Each panel should be 100% of the final design, so use multiple pages as needed.
Here’s an example of a storyboard for a banner ad:
Storyboard for a banner ad
And here is the finished ad that was made from that storyboard: