Session 10: Layers, Symbols, and Filters

Reading

• Hour 12 - pp. 247-270
  
• Hour 13 - pp. 271-284
  
• Hour 14 - pp. 285-306

Mini-Lecture

• Masking Notes
• Hour 13 Notes
• Hour 14 Notes

Assignment: Hour 12

Mask and Motion Guide

1. Open "chap12-start.fla" and put the "sailboat-sunset1 graphic" in a background layer
2. Label all layers
3. Above the background, add a mask layer with a large oval
4. Above this add two more layers
5. In the top layer, use the pencil to draw a path for a motion guide
6. In the layer beneath, drop an instance of the bird symbol from the library
7. Turn the top layer into a motion guide and the layer beneath into a guided layer
8. Align the bird with the beginning of the motion path
9. Click frame one -on the timeline, not in a layer- and add at least 30 frames (NOT keyframes)
10. Click the last frame in the bird layer and convert it into a keyframe
11. Align the bird with the end of the motion path
12. Test the movie
13. Save-and-compact the file

The resulting animation will look something like this

 Project work: Finish Image Portfolio

• Finish the image portfolio project