Flash CS3

Course Description: Amazing animations and dazzling designs! Present multimedia with flare! Jazz-up your presentations and web sites with interactive animations of illustrations, photos, and type. In this hands-on overview course, learn the drawing tools, animation basics, layers, symbols, and movie clips. Learn simple ActionScript to create navigation buttons and animation portfolios. Left-brained or right-brained, you will find a home with Flash! Type and images dance.

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Modules:

module 1

1. Get to Know the Work Area

2. Collect Royalty Free Assests
module 3

3. Image Optimization
module 4

4. Basic Concepts: Catalog of Animation Techniques

5. Drawing Tools

6. Symbols & Instances

7. 2D Motion Tween

8. More Practice with 2D Motion Tween

9. 3D Motion Tween

10. Motion Tween on Guide Path

11. Drawing Tools, Motion Tween Review

12. Work with Text

13. Shape Tween

14. More Practice with Shape Tween

15. Mask Tween

16. More Practice with Mask Tween

17. Buttons and Scenes

18. Simple Buttons and Frame Actions

19. Drag a Mask

20. Use Symbols from Multiple Libraries

21. Intro to Movie Clips

22. Import and Create Movie Clips

23. Nested Movie Clips

24. Mouse Trap: Movie Clips and Motion Tween Review

25. Sound

26. Basic Interactivity

27. Preloader

28. Publishing Tips

29. Bandwidth Profiler