Flash Exercise 1
FOCUS Symbols and animation
PURPOSE Show your mastery of simple Flash animation concepts, including use of symbols, layers, keyframes and ActionScript: stop().
VALUE 5 points (see Grading):
- 2 points for meeting all the requirements (below)
- 1 point for acceptable appearance (that is, no one is likely to say, "That looks bad!")
- 1 point for professional appearance (most people would say, "Wow, that's good!" even if they did not know it was student work)
- 1 point for originality
DETAILS Create a new, original SWF that contains a simple animation with two or more different symbols. Embed the SWF object on an HTML page, and upload both files to your Web site. Also upload the FLA to to your Web site.
Requirements
- At least two Graphic symbols must appear in the Library.
- Each of the two symbols must MOVE in your animation.
- Your FLA must have a bottom layer that serves as a background image. (A plain one-color background does not count.)
- Do not import or paste any images into Flash from outside sources. Use the drawing tools in Flash to create the symbols and background.
- Your FLA must have an "actions" layer with a stop(); action in the final frame on the Timeline.
- Follow all the instructions below.
- Upload ALL THREE files (SWF, FLA, HTML) to your Web site and send me two URLs -- (1) the HTML page, and (2) the FLA -- via e-mail, by the deadline.
Example
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The two symbols in this movie are the hand and the dollar bill. It's obvious that they are two separate symbols that can be animated independently.
Note that your movie will NOT have a replay button. That is for next week. Please do NOT put a button in your assignment this week.Instructions
- Create an entirely new FLA for this assignment.
- Create two new Graphic symbols in the FLA.
- Create a background design in Flash.
- Animate both symbols in Flash.
- Read Lesson 3 (in McAdams) to learn how to embed your SWF in an HTML page.
- Use Publish Settings in Flash (explained in Lesson 3) to generate an HTML page with your SWF embedded in it.
- Copy the SWF, the HTML file and the FLA into your Web folder (this means the folder on your hard drive that you defined in Dreamweaver as your site folder).
- Upload all three files to your Web site.