Course Contents

01 – Introduction

• Flash-5 / Flash MX 2004/ Adobe Flash CS3

 02 - The Interface

• Interface layout overview

• Managing the workspace (Movie properties)

• File types (fla, swf, exe, html)

03 – Tools summary

• Drawing with the pencil

• Modifying lines

• Drawing with the pen

• The oval and rectangle tools

• Modifying  shapes (Free transform)

• The brush tool

• The lasso tool        

• The eyedropper tool

• Using the mixer

• Adding custom colors

• Working with multiple objects

• Grouping objects

• Align Panel (Ctrl+K)

04 - Animation Basics

• The timeline

• Time frame, frame rate

• Onion skin

• Movie properties and frame rate

• Frames, Key frames, Blank key frames (changing Points)

• Deleting  frames

• Copying frames

• Reversing frames

• Testing frames/movie

 05 - Frame By Frame Animation

• Frame by frame animation

 06 - Motion Tweening

• Basic motion tweening

• Tweening effects

• Edit multiple frames

• Motion guides

• Motion tweening text

 07 - Shape Tweening

• Shape tweening

• Shape tweening text

• Edit multiple frames

 08 - Libraries, Symbols and Instances

• Working with the library

• Creating and editing symbols (Ctrl+F8)

• Converting to symbols (F8)

• Editing symbol instances

• Compressing options over view

 09 –Urdu Text

• Working with Urdu Text

• Tweening Urdu text

 10 – Understanding layers                                     

• Layers

• Removing timeline /Layers

• Masking layer

• Animated masks (one point to another)

• Guide layer

 11 –Text Type

• Text tool overview

• Aligning text (Ctrl+T)

• Paragraph options 

12 – Bitmaps

• Bitmaps vs Vectors

• Importing and compressing

• Bitmap sequence

• Breaking apart bitmaps (Ctrl+B)

• Bitmap fills

• Trace bitmap   (Modify > Trace Bitmap)

 13 – Buttons

• Button / Rollover button

• Creating button / Invisible button

 14 - Movie Clips

• What are movie clips

• Modifying movie clip instances

 15 – Introduction to action scripting essentials

• Stop / Play

• Go To And Play

• Full screen  (FS Commands)

• Exit movie (FS Commands)

 16 – Adding action script

• Adding actions to Buttons

• Adding actions to Frames

 17 - Sound and its properties

• Creating sound file

• Adding sound

• Compressing sound

 18 – File type overview

• Application of different file types in publishing (fla, swf, exe)

 19 – Projects

• Movie clip

• Roll over buttons

• Presentation

• Animated web contents using Masking / Guide Layers.

• Webpage with animation, buttons, action  scripting.

 Duration        =          40 Hours