FLASH: Circle Animation

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Create a simple animation about a circle.

Your circle can be a real-life subject ie. a golf ball, or a hole in something, you can decorate/embellish your circle, it can have a personality/identity, it can start abstract too, and there can be more than one circle...

But no matter what, you should create a simple story about your circle: establish the character through graphics and motion, give some conflict, and have the conflict resolve.

• Create a Symbol/main character [AKA Circle].*
• Background on a different layer to establish scene.*
• Must include a short narrative: Establish character/conflict/resolution. * 

Animate your circle using four or more of the following techniques:

• Frame to frame animation
• Motion Tween
• Classical Tween
• Transform
• Scale Tween
• Colour Effect Tween
• Shape Tween
• Ease
• [You can animate the background too.] 

Create a simple story and incorporate your new Flash skills.Publish it and save to the Flash Circle Animation in the Computer Arts Share folder. We will share all of the circle animations with the class... When you post it, write a short overview of what your animation is about.



Some circle animation ideas
https://youtu.be/X0k7N0ASfp8

Animate/Flash: Masking Tutorial

Inserting Layers and Naming them

• By default you will have a layer in your timeline window. Insert one more layer, totally you need two layers to mask an object.
• Rename the top layer to "Mask" and the layer below that to "background".

Creating Shape Tween

• Import your picture to the "background" layer.
• Using Oval tool from your tool box, draw a circle in your "Mask" layer and delete it's border.
• Drag the circle to one end of your picture.
• Now go to"frame 40" of your "Mask" layer and press "F6" to insert a new keyframe.
• Now go to "frame 40" of your "background" layer and press "F5" to insert frames, so that your background image is available all through your mask.
• Select "frame 40" of your "Mask" layer, that is your new keyframe, Keeping the playhead on "frame 40" of "Mask" layer, drag the circle to other end of your picture.
• Now go back to "frame 1" of your "Mask" layer, keeping the playhead on "frame 1" of your "Mask" layer, select Shape tween in your properties window.
  

Masking

• Right click on the "Mask" layer (the area where you named the layer not where the frames exist) and select Mask.

Your Mask is all ready. Press Ctrl+Enter to view your Mask.

Animate/FLASH: Shape Tween

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.
  
  
• Select the first frame. Now go to your working area and draw any object. To start off with, may be you can draw a circle.This is going to be your initial object.
  In the above demonstration, my initial object is a short line.
• Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Now draw a different object, may be a square.
  In the pencil demonstration, we have drawn a long line.
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.
  
  
• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.

Computer Arts Semester 1 Progress

 

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