Impressive collections of work:
Cris & Peache's Geography Game: Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate
Madi's Bio Game: Investigate, Plan, Pitch, Create 2, Evaluate
Adam's Chem Game: Investigate 2, Plan (on paper), Create, Eval. Write Up
Cris & Peache's Geography Game: Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate
Madi's Bio Game: Investigate, Plan, Pitch, Create 2, Evaluate
Adam's Chem Game: Investigate 2, Plan (on paper), Create, Eval. Write Up
New Six Weeks: Learning Flash CS4
Drawing in Adobe Flash works similar in some ways to Adobe Illustrator. If you remember how to use illustrator, drawing in Flash will be a bit easier. However, its a bit more complex, as it allows creating animations, interactivity, and can even be used to create games with the additions of scripting codes. All those online web based games you've seen, they're all flash based (well, the vast majority at least).
Can you find any really cool flash based websites? Be careful you don't get flash mixed up for HTML 5, it might be a good idea to search for Examples of Flash Websites to see some of the cool stuff pros can make it do. Post links to three cool flash websites on your blog.
If you were to get really good at flash, some of your game designs could actually become flash games. In the short period we have to work on it though, it'd be very challenging to learn action script 3 well enough.
I've collected quite a few sources for you, not that you need to watch them all. Rather, since Flash is more complicated than most of what we used this year, I wanted to make sure you had plenty of resources in case some of them didn't make since to you, were too fast, too slow, etc. Alot of these are videos, as that's just what seems most common. However, there are non-video tutorials as well. Keep in mind, you're not limited to these resources, these are just the ones I collected.
First Three Assignments in Flash:
1. Draw something in Flash
2. Make a Classic Motion Tween of:
2a - something that speeds up
2b - something that bounces along gradual arcs
3. Make a Shape Tween of:
- something transforming into something else
It's been a while since I've used flash, so I had to get reacquainted with the tools. Watching the Drawing Tutorial for Flash CS3 helped a bit, even if some of the things work a bit differently (as we're using CS4). I've created a cartoon-esque helmet. When played as a swf file (not the png screenshot I've taken of it on the left), the picture starts with just the background, then the helmet zooms into the frame. What can you make?
Additional Flash Content:
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