Session 7: Understanding Animation

Description of Material Covered in Session 7

Reading: 

 

Assignment: Hour 8

Create a frame-by-frame animation
  1. In a new FLA file, draw a small car, using the rectangle and oval tools.
    Don't worry about making it pretty.
  2. Convert the car into a movie clip
  3. In a new layer, use the pencil tool to draw a hill
  4. Place the car at the bottom of the hill on the left side, just off the stage
  5. Click on frame 2 in the car layer and add a keyframe
  6. Move the car a bit to the right
  7. Repeat steps 4-5, adding a new keyframe in the car layer each time
  8. Continue until the car leaves the right side of the screen and the other side of the hill
  9. Test the movie
  10. Save-and-compact the file, then submit FLA and SWF files

Your final movie should look something like this

 

 In Class Exercise: Animation 1

 

Project Work: Image Portfolio

Citation: Clark, G. C. (2007, November 19). Session 7: Understanding Animation. Retrieved May 20, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/computer-applications/applied-multimedia-technology/sessions/session-7.
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