I taught this course as an adjunct instructor for 2 years at St. Petersburg College in Seminole, Florida. This course is the follow-up to the Digital Media course entitled “Basic Animation with Adobe Flash.” This is a Spring Session course that is held in the evening once a week.
Course Description
This course is designed to extend the knowledge gained in Basic Animation. Topics covered include advanced graphic design, advanced navigation, complex interactivity, scripting for animation, utilizing variables, processing data and an introduction to integrating projects with other applications. Students are exposed to advanced topics in animation and introduced to ActionScript programming.Course Outline
- Unit 1 – Introduction to Advanced Flash
- Unit 2 – Exploring the Flash UI & Drawing Tools
- Unit 3 – Color, Extensions, and Text
- Unit 4 – Modifying Graphics, Symbols, and the Library
- Unit 5 – Button Events, Tweening, and Timeline Effects
- Unit 6 – Review of Button ActionScript, Layer Types, and Basic Sound
- Unit 7 – Character Animation & Exporting Animation
- Unit 8 – Publishing Flash Movies
- Unit 9 – ActionScripting Basics
- Unit 10 – Conditional Statements and Loading & Manipulating Sound with ActionScript
- Unit 11 – Debugging and External Content Files
- Unit 12 – Loading External Images and AS files
- Unit 13 – Paths & Nesting, and Video in Flash
- Unit 14 – Using Components
- Unit 15 – Flash Media Server & Flash 8