Week 4 - Movie Clips, Custom Motion Tweens, & Principles of Animation

Exercise #1 - Open up your animation from last week.  Make your car come to a stop and when it does stop the wheels should also stop.  Apply easing to the car to make it brake before stopping and accelerate before hitting top speed.

Exercise #2 - Apply custom motion tweening to a motioned tweened rectangle.  Make the rectangle enter the screen, stop and take off with custom easing applied to a single motion tween.

Exercise #3 - Read the following article on the 12 Principles of Animation.  Once you have read the article, write a short explanation (in your own words) of the following animation terms.  Post your response on your Blog.

Principles of Animation

1. Squash and Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6. Slow In and Slow Out
7. Arcs
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid Drawing
12. Appeal

Exercise #4 - Begin Assignment number 1 - Bouncing Ball

Week 3 - Movie Clips and Drawing Objects

• Create an animation of a car driving in to the scene and stopping, then driving out of the scene.
• You need to draw your own car
• The wheels on the car must spin, then stop when the car stops
• apply easing to your animation

Week 2 - Animation Revision

1. Create a Motion Tween
2. Create a Shape Tween
3. Create a Motion Path and animate a Car driving along the path.
   • Download this free clipart image below
   • Crop it so that your have only one car (using Photoshop)
   • Draw an aerial lanscape scene with a windy road (using Illustrator)
   • Use the path from Illustrator to create an animation of the car driving on a road

Clipart Source: http://all-free-download.com/free-vector/vector-car-top-view.html

Semester 2 - Week 1

Introduction to Animation

1. Create a flick-pad animation
2. Create frame-by frame animation (move circle across the screen)
3. Create a basic motion tween (move circle across the screen)
4. Create a basic shape tween (morph shapes and change colours)
5. Create a sunset scene using multiple layers. 

Examples

1. Frame by Frame Animation - .fla example
2. Motion Tween - .fla example
3. Motion Preset - .fla example
4. Shape Tween - .fla example

Advanced Tweens

Control a shape tween using shape hints (animate letter "M" to "N").

• Shape Hint - .fla example 

Motion Paths
 
Create a custom motion path.  Control the direction and rotation of the object along the path.

• Motion Path - .fla example

Further Reading

• Flash Guide: Using the Stage and Tools panel
• Flash Tutorial: Shape Hints
• Flash Tutorial: Custom Motion Paths 

Semester 2 - Overview

Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills (Participate in creative thinking. Generate ideas for writing task. Knowledge Test)
Write content for a range of media (Write game content. Write content for web)
Create 2D Digital animations (Create simple animations and a basic game)