Day One is a big learning curve. You will be learning a bit about the basics of the Flash interface as well as some basic animation techniques. There is a fair amount of reading (see the notes at the bottom of the page). Many people find Flash very confusing, and there is very little gratification [...]
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2 Flash CS4 Day Two
June 25th, 2009 No Comments
In Day Two we look at some more Flash fundamentals. These are the building blocks to help you understand all of the animation techniques available in Flash. They are also the first steps towards creating interactivity in Flash. Its a bit confusing - you may not understand what the point of some of these concepts [...]
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3 Flash CS4 Day Three: Buttons
June 24th, 2009 1 Comment
In Day 1 and 2 you tried some of the animation techniques in Flash. But there is so much more to Flash than animation! Today we are going to try out the most basic form of interactivity available: working with buttons. A Button is a specialised symbol that responds to the user's mouse pointer. In [...]
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4 Flash CS4 || Day Four
June 23rd, 2009 No Comments
In Day Three, you had a quick introduction to buttons. In Day Four, we are going back to animation, to learn some more complex animation techniques. In Day Two, you learnt about symbols. Today we look at animated symbols. They allow you to re-use bits of animation without having to re-do the entire animation every [...]
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5 Flash CS4 Day Five
June 22nd, 2009 No Comments
In Day 5, we leave animation aside and look at interactive movies. You will create a simple slide show, and learn to use Actionscript to make the buttons advance the slides in the slide show. We also touch on using bitmap images in Flash, so that you can put some photographs in your slide show. [...]
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