Flash: Introduction to Digital and Web Graphics Animation, CMP965
Adobe Flash is widely used to create web-based animations, advertisements, greeting cards, GIF files, cartoons and easy, fun, creative graphics. Flash’s popularity arises from its “vector graphic” technology and superior graphics compression tools for publishing graphics. Learn the Flash workspace, panels, timeline, frames, layers, and preferences. Create symbols, symbol instances, buttons, "moveable" text symbols, and movie clips. Make basic vector graphic animations, frame-by-frame animations and animations along a path. Modify shape, colors, and "alpha". Learn how to add sound, optimize and publish completed Flash movies, insert Flash HTML in Web pages, and upload and display your animations on the Web.
Prerequisites: Computer Basics, Working with Windows XP or Working with Vista. Experience with PC File Management is required.
Classroom hours: 15
Textbook: Purchase textbook at the Rockville Campus Bookstore and bring to first class along with a USB Flash Drive/memory stick (at least 512 MB).