Week 8

Computer Animation

Animation

To Give Live to

Computer Animation

Chaning properties over time

Anination Use

We will be using animation to either tell a story or to give life to objects, menus and artwork.Typically to communicate commercial information or to enhance the user experience.

Timeline Operations

Timeline

Create a Key

Create a blank key

Delete a Key

Create a Frame

Delete a Frame

Select a Key

Important Hotkeys

• F5 - adds Frame
• F6 - add Key
• F7 - add blank key
• F8 - convert to symbol
• Shift + F5 - Delete Frame
• Shift + F6 - Delete Key

Technical Workflows

Animating in Flash - CSMA

Convert to Symbol -> Sometimes Add Frames -> Motion Tween -> Add keys / modify object

• Symbols
• MovieClips
• Buttons
• Graphics

Animation via the GUI. Dragging and menus

Plotting keys in the timeline + GUI manipulation

Animation Technique #2

Pose to Pose

Create a key for your extreme poses and use tweens fill in the blanks

Breakdown key

Multi-Object Animation

Every new symbol MUST go on a new layer

Starting and stopping movement

Offsetting Movement

Additional Technical Workflows

Moving blocks of time

select the block of time -> move block of time -> trim excess

Complex Timing

Splitting Keys

Practice these key operations

Define | Create | Delete | Move | Modify