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16th October 2006

Week 4 Practical

Flash is a tool for creating interactive and animated Web sites.

What you should already know

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

WWW, HTML and the basics of building Web pages

What is Flash?

Macromedia Flash is a multimedia graphics program especially for use on the Web

Flash enables you to create interactive "movies" on the Web

Flash uses vector graphics, which means that the graphics can be scaled to any size without losing clarity/quality

Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn

Flash vs. Animated Images and Java Applets

Aims:

• To Demonstrate the basics of Flash MX from opening a new project to producing a simple animation.

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrates how to use the tool bar for drawing + colouring
• Produce a simple animation using the timeline
• Show how alpha channels can be used with simple graphics.

Drawing and Animation Tutorials

Learning how to draw tutorial (courtesy of Michele Howley )

My first animation tutorial (courtesy of Chris Georgenes)

Flash tutorials