Adobe FLASH

Alejandra Jarabo
MAT 116

Media Arts & Technologies Division. Santa Barbara City College
Links to different topics

Find information about different topics for your class-exercises and projects:

  • Frames and Keyframes > Week 2
  • Moving Keyframes > Week 2
  • Working with Graphic tools in Flash. Manipulating shapes> Week 2
  • Working with Graphic tools in Flash. Line tools> Week 2
  • Frames and Keyframes in the Timeline > Week 3
  • Animation concepts* > Week 3
  • Frame by Frame Animation. Examples* > Week 3
  • Colors. Gradient overflow > Week 3
  • Shape Tweens > Week 4
  • Using Shape-Hints to control a Shape Tween > Week 4
    TRAINING MOVIE: Copy/pasting animation (in frames), HERE
  • Working with Guides (2 pages tutorial) > Week6. This technique is outdated.
  • Working with Motion Tween's paths in CS4> Week6
  • Working with Masks > Week6
  • Examples of good assignments with curved paths and masks >Week 6
  • Movie Symbols in Flash > Week 7
  • Button symbols in Flash > Week7
  • Examples of good button-assignments in Flash > Week7
  • Finding free sounds over the web > Week7
  • Action Scripting 3.0 : What is a Variable? >From week 8
  • Action Scripting 3.0 : What is a Function? >From week 8

  • Action Scripting 3.0 : How to program a button in AS 3? >From week 8
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building and naming a button, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Programming a button 1, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Programming a button and creatingan interactive timeline, HERE

  • Sound Fundamentals >HERE
  • Sound in Flash >Week 9 and 11
  • Sound files. Using Audacity and Itunes >Week 9 and 11
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building a linear slideshow, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Linear slideshow with if/else construction, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building a rollover gallery, HERE
 

  • Building an Interactive Map with AS 2>Week 10
  • Assignment examples of Interactive Map >Week 10
  • Working on your Final Project's decription >Week 10
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building an Interactive Map, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Interactive map examples, HERE
  • Targetting a movieclip. Assignment examples > Week 11
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Targeting a movieclip in a rollover gallery, HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: targeting a movieclip, HERE
  • Making a Pull Down menu for a Navigation Bar > Week 12
  • Pulldown menu. Assignment examples > Week 12
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building a Pull down menu, HERE
  • Loading an external Movie-clip (swf) into your project > Week 13
    TRAINING VIDEO: Loading external content to your main project, HERE
  • General Information on Digital Video >Week 14
  • Assignment examples >Week 14
  • Coping your work into the XYTHOS server > Week 15
  • Uploading your work to Google Drive> week 15 and Final
  • Final project > Week 16
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building a preloader (root), HERE
  • TRAINING VIDEO: Building a preloader (external) HERE
  • GRADING TABLES. FOR YOUR REFERENCE > All weeks

  • SELECTED SPRING 08 work
  • Frame by Frame animation. #54106 #54107 #54108 >HERE
  • Examples of "movieclip and button" assignment. Week 7. Selected work >HERE
  • SELECTED SPRING 07 work
  • Frame by Frame animation. __#4106 #4107 #4108 >HERE
  • SELECTED SPRING 06 work
  • Frame by Frame animation. MAT_116 __#4096 and #4097>HERE
  • Animation using Shape tweens. MAT_116 __#4096 and #4097>HERE
  • Animation using Motion tweens . MAT_116 __#4096 and #4097>HERE
  • Interactive. SlideShow and Interactive Map. MAT_116 __# 6048 #4096 and #4097>HERE
   
  • See selected "Frame by Frame animation" assignments HERE
  • See selected Flash weekly exercises HERE
  • See some previous "Final Projects" HERE
  • See selected final projects from the Fall Semester 2006 HERE
  • See selected final projects from the Spring Semester 2006 HERE