FLASH Animation and Scripting

HOMEWORK Reading and Video:
Q3
Lesson 0: Animation Basics in Adobe Flash CS5, Video: Understanding Flash, Video: Understanding Flash File Types,
                Video: Flash Workspaces
Lesson 1: Getting Started and Overview of Animation in Flash, Video: Exploring the Flash Interface, Video: Using the Drawing Tools
Lesson 2: Creating Your First Flash Professional CS5 Document and Understanding Frame Rates in Flash
Lesson 3: Video: Working with Bitmaps Video: Object and Merge Drawing Video: Understanding Symbols
Lesson 4: Animation Timelines and Keyframes and Animating Frame by Frame,
               Video: Understanding Tweens
Lesson 5: Shape Tweens, Using Shape Tweens, Video: Creating Shape Tweens
Lesson 6: Exploring Motion Tweens. Video: Creating Motion Tweens
Lesson 7: Manipulating Motion Tweens, Video: Using the Motion Editor 1
Lesson 8: Using Motion Paths in Animations and Using the Motion Editor 2
Lesson 9: Animating with Preset and Custom Eases and Animating with Motion Presets, Video: Working With Motion Presets
Lesson 10: Animating with Bones (Inverse Kinematics) 
Lesson 11: Working with Video
Lesson 12: Working With Sound
Lesson 13: Writing and Storyboards (Planning) Template: Storyboards  Online: Storyboard Tool  
                  Video: Cleaning up Storyboards for Clients 
Lessons 14-20: Project: Produce a cartoon animation with an action script "replay" button.  Review: Drawing Tools and Symbols
                  New: Designing and Animating Characters  and Character Animation with the Bone Tool (Monkey)
Q4
Lessons 21-22: Using ActionScript 3 for Animation, Action Script Syntax,  Video: Getting Started with Action Script
Lessons 23-24: Variables,   Data Types,  Operators
Lessons 25-27: Functions
Lessons 28-30: Objects
Lessons 31-33: Writing a Custom Class ,  Packages
Lessons 34-35: Conditionals, Repetition 
Lessons 38-45: Design and Build an Application,  Building an Application

Lesson X: Using JavaScript APIs for Animation
Lesson Y: Building Moble Apps with Flash Professional CS5
Lesson Z: Publishing Workflows for AIR for iOS and  Building Adobe AIR Applications for iPhone

Getting Started with Flash <- Great starting place! 

Flash Game University  <- Your First Stop for Scripting!
Learning ActionScript 3  <- Your Second Stop for Scripting!

Adobe DevNet Action Script Samples <- Good samples to examine

Adobe Flash CS5.5 Trial Version
Use the link above to download a 30 fully functional trial version of Flash.

STORYBOARDS <  CLICK HERE

Incredible Flash Tutorials 
Wonderful Free tutorials from beginner to advanced.

School of Flash
Flash and Action Script Tutorials 

TV ADOBE
Video tutorials on Adobe products including FLASH
Doug Winnie 1:1 Action Script tutorials

My Tutorial Planet
This website contains short and simple tutorials on a variety of subjects including Flash Animation.

TrainingTools.com
This website contains a complete online course for Flash. It's version 5, but most of the concepts shown there still apply up through CS5. The online text is completely indexed so you can quickly find information about the tool or process that interests you.

The following PDF files from A.I.M. Tutorials are good resources:
Exploring and Evaluating Flash
The Basics of Flash
Simple Animation
Interactivity
Multimedia
Planning and Production

Beginner Tutorials:
VinyardDesigns.com  Cost: Free   Level: Beginner
WebDevelopersNotes.com Cost: Free    Level: Beginner-Intermediate (Advanced?)
W3Schools.com  Cost: Free   Level: Beginner
FlashKit.com  Cost: Free  Level: Beginner to Advanced (Over 1400 tutorials, images, clipart, stuff)

CartoonSmart.com
A slick website with many free tutorials and demos in addition to their courses which can be purchased.

Entheosweb.com
A website with interesting Flash tutorials and resources... yes, they are free!

 More Resources:

 

 
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