Feb 20 a Review

Tonight we have made movies at DFilm and figured out how tosend them to the class blog using an email address. We then went into the blog and edited the post to make it more user friendly. to do this we did a screen dump of the animation (Print Screen key) and went to photoshop. We cropped the image and did a save for web and changed the image size to 250 pixels wide (good width for the blog.) We uploaded the image to the blog and put the url on to the image as a link, we also put the DFilm url into the link under the title for the posting.
After a caffefine hit we returned to class and started our exploration of flash.
Our first exercise was to create a rainbow ball and make it float across the screen. To do this:

1. Choose linear gradient fill
2. Use the oval tool to create a circle (hold shift for perfect circle) on the bottom left of the stage.
3. Name the layer rainbow
4. Right click into frame 30 choose insert frame
5. Right click into frame 30 choose create motion tween
6. Right click into frame 30 choose insert keyframe
7. Click the ball and drag to the other side of the stage
8. Press enter the ball floats across the stage

Our next task was to roll the ball across the stage. To do this:

1. Return to frame 1, click the ball,
2. Go to the properties bar
3. Go to rotate and choose cw 1
4. Press enter the disk rolls across the stage

The last big task was to make the disk bounce. To do this:

1. Right click into frame 5, insert a keyframe
2. Move the disk to the top of the stage
3. Right click into frame 10, insert a keyframe
4. Move the disk to the bottom of the stage
5. Continue alone the timeline inserting keyframe and repositioning the disk.

We also faded the disk by select it on the stage and choosing Color Alpha and 0 on the properties bar.

Some terms

• tween
• frame
• keyframe
• alpha
• motion tween
• cw
• ccw