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What is a Flash Symbol?
What is a Flash Symbol?
A symbol is a reusable object used/created in Animate. A Symbol can be reused throughout your movie or imported and used in other movies. There are three types of symbols: Graphics, Buttons, and Movieclips.
The Three Types of Symbols
The Three Types of Symbols
Each symbol has a unique Timeline and Stage, complete with layers. You can add frames, keyframes, and layers to a symbol Timeline, just as you can to the main Timeline. When you create a symbol you choose the symbol type.
- Use graphic symbols for static images and to create reusable pieces of animation that are tied to the main Timeline. Graphic symbols operate in sync with the main Timeline. Interactive controls and sounds won’t work in a graphic symbol’s animation sequence. Graphic symbols add less to the FLA file size than buttons or movie clips because they have no timeline.
- Use button symbols to create interactive buttons that respond to mouse clicks, rollovers, or other actions. You define the graphics associated with various button states, and then assign actions to a button instance.
- Use movie clip symbols to create reusable pieces of animation. Movie clips have their own multi-frame Timeline that is independent from the main Timeline—think of them as nested inside a main Timeline that can contain interactive controls, sounds, and even other movie clip instances. You can also place movie clip instances inside the Timeline of a button symbol to create animated buttons. In addition, movie clips are scriptable with ActionScript.
As a Class: Movie Clips and Filters
As a Class: Movie Clips and Filters
On Your Own: Movie Clips
On Your Own: Movie Clips
1.Using the directions here as a guide, create an eye movement animation for the minion.
2. Watch the video below which goes over a very unique animation concept called Line Boil.
3. Using the file attached here as a guide, create a line boil animation for the curtains using movie clips.
4. Using the file attached here as a guide, create a rain movie clip.
5. Using the directions and grade sheet here, use movie clips to animate your trace character.
Reflection Question
Reflection Question
Open your animated emoji or animated word. In the form attached here, tell me something in one of your animations that could have more logically been a movie clip symbol vs a graphic symbol and why?
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Filters:
Filters:
Filters add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips. Filters are most often associated with applying drop shadows, blurs, glows, and bevels to graphic elements.
A feature unique to Adobe Animate is that you can animate the filters using motion tweens. For example, if you create a ball with a drop shadow, you can simulate the look of the light source moving from one side of the object to another by changing the position of the drop shadow from its beginning and ending frames in the Timeline.
After you apply a filter, you can change its options at any time or rearrange the order of filters to experiment with combined effects. You can enable or disable filters or delete them in the Property inspector.
On Own: Filters
On Own: Filters
1. Create clouds utilizing filters. Open your rain file and utilize the attached pdf to complete the tutorial.
2. Add glowing lightning to rain scene utilizing the attached pdf to complete the tutorial.
3. Using the directions attached here as a guide and the sample below, create a bee animation using filters and movie clips-Filters CAN NOT be applied to graphic symbols
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