Intro to Flash!

For Flash MX:
Actionscript 3 ----> Start New Flash Animation
Pasteboard ----> Workspace

For your first assignment, what you need to do is:

• On one layer, make a notched 'flight path' arc for an object of your choice, so that its movement will be smooth.
• On a separate layer, draw your object.
• Your object should deform appropriately as it reaches the various notches of its arc.
• Your object needs to have something dragging behind it: hair, a tail, a string ... whatever!

A point of clarification: when Harry starts talking about 'breakdowns,' he is simply referring to the first step taken when making in-betweens between keys. The breakdown is essentially the 'exact middle' in-between. Harry will address this in the next video a little, so don't fret:

For your second assignment, what you need to do is:

• Make a character take.
• Begin with at least 4 roughs.
• Clean up your roughs on a separate layer.
• Make more in-betweens, for a total of 16-20 frames.
• At this point, pick a primary motion point -- the head, shoulders, or whatever you choose.
• One a separate layer, mark this point with notches.
• Trace a movement arc through the notches and make sure the movement is both well-timed and following a smooth path. Adjust your frames as necessary to clean up this motion arc.
• Your path should look clean and curved, not bumpy or wiggly.
• Lastly, color in your animation! Colors may be on a separate layer if necessary!

Reaction Gifs!

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Final Assignment: Add a sound and a motion tween background to your animation!
Sounds can be found on a site like this.

Introduction to Inkscape

This week you need to turn in a paragraph written about the painting we'll be printing for the March 19th exhibition. You should aim for 10 sentences or so -- topics that you might like to consider are:

• What are your thoughts about the content of your painting? Why did you make the image what it is?
• Did you have any particular idea, meaning, or message you were trying to put into the image?
• What was the process that you went through to make this piece?
• What did you like or dislike about the process of making this? What was interesting to find out, or frustrating to do?
• What do you think the audience should know or might be curious about?
• Anything else you'd like to say.

• When you get to this video, you can make your first assignment: a logo for a company. You can follow the tutorial exactly, or make your own company & logo.

• For this assignment, make a sketch or a drawing on paper or in SAI, and then 'ink' the lines in Inkscape. 
• It could be an older piece of work, if you like. 
• You could even find an image that you like online, if you don't want to make your own drawing.
• Go on to color it in and complete it, as is done in this tutorial.

• Your third assignment is to follow this tutorial, which goes more in-depth into the functionality and speed of working in a vector program. Good luck! :D