Fundamentals of Flash Animation and Interactivity with Flash
Flash makes it easy to create rich, engaging content for the web and mobile platforms. Whether you want to produce simple animations, sophisticated multimedia packages or interactive web applications, this workshop will give you the skills you need to exploit the capabilities of this powerful software.
Topics:
- An overview of the Flash interface
- Creating animation with motion and shape 'tweening'
- Using layers, guide layers and mask layers
- Reusing content using symbols and libraries
- Optimising Flash movies for web delivery
- Making Flash movies accessible
Who is it for?
This is a practical workshop for anyone wishing to develop skills in using Flash to create engaging web content. It is aimed at beginners, but is also suitable for those with some experience of using Flash. Please note that this workshop does NOT aim to teach advanced programming with ActionScript.
Participants should have previously used the World Wide Web through a current browser and must have experience of using Microsoft Windows to open and save files and work with software applications. Experience of using other Macromedia/Adobe products may be useful, but not essential.
Note that this workshop does NOT require programming skills from participants and is not designed to provide competency in advanced ActionScript programming.
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Become familiar with the software interface for Flash
- Created, imported and modified graphics
- Produced animations using motion and shape tweening
- Investigated techniques to improve the accessibility of Flash content
- Published Flash movies for web delivery
