Animate Tutorials

Make sure to do the following Adobe Animate Tutorials export as a .SWF movie or Video file and save to the STUDENTSHARE folder:

1. Motion Tween
2. Shape Tween
3. Colour Tween
4. Scale Tween
5. Rotate Tween

Title each with your name and the "Tween" style.

Animation Assignment

Make a short animation project with a simple narrative using a famous masterpiece as inspiration. 

Develop a simple story about a famous masterpiece painting. Your masterpiece will be animated to show movement from frame to frame and/or tween animation and your will be confronted with some sort of conflict and resolution. The masterpiece could be using part of itself, or add subjects or props to tell help your new story. Be creative and have fun; it can be what anything you want it to be.

Guidelines are not rules, but a formula that can be used to suit your creative imagination. The following guidelines are for narrative.

A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. A lot of information can be given in a single setting. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination.

1. Create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.
2. Adapt a masterpiece either animate parts of the original painting or illustrate new subjects or props or backgrounds.
3. Tell a story about the masterpiece or the subject in the painting.
4. Build to probable outcomes.
5. Give a conflict
6. Create a resolution- create a logical, but surprising, end.