Moving Poster

Assignment

• • • • Create a simple animated music, movie,  or video game poster to demonstrate your understanding of the main types of flash animation tweens. (Motion & Shape). 

Learning Goals

• • • • Motion Tweens and Shape tweens

Getting Started

• • • • Using a combination of Photoshop (image manipulation) and Flash (tweening), create a simple animated album cover, movie poster or video game cover.

      • Your animations MUST include at least one:

        • • A Motion Tween

          • A Shape Tween

HELPFUL HINTS:

• • • • Create New Layers for each new object in your animation. 

      • Think of motion tweens as a single events for an object. 

      • Have them do one thing then create a new version of your object by copying and Edit > Pasting In Place a new instance of that object on a new keyframe.

Animate Shortcuts

• • • • F5 – Insert a blank frame - Extend your animation over multiple frames without changes

      • F6 – Insert a keyframe 

      • F7 – Insert a blank keyframe

      • ( . ) - move over a frame to the right.

      • ( , ) - move over a frame to the left.

      • ENTER - Plays your movie in the timeline

      • CTRL + ENTER – Previews your final movie (also creates an .swf file)

      • SHIFT + F5 - Removes frames

      • SHIFT + F6 - Removes keyframes

      • Create new layers for each new object in your animation.

      • Use scenes to break up your animation into manageable chunks Insert > Scene.

      • To display the scene panel: Window > Other Panels > Scene. 

Motion Tweens need to be converted to symbols                  

Examples