Assignment #7 – Flash Animation Exercise 1: Eyeballs

Students learn the basic tools and use of Flash timeline, frames, key frames, and tweens to create a 120 frame (10 second) animation. The animation must have 4 layers (Head, Eye Sockets, Eyeballs, and Ball), and use tweens to create synchronized animation that has the eyeballls following the motion of the ball around the screen canvas.

Students who finish early, are challenged to add additional layers, objects, backgrounds and animation to their exercise. Images can also be brought in from the web using this process: JPG images found on the web should be in approximate size to the canvas, opened in Photoshop, manipulated if necessary, backgrounds masked, and then the remaining areas other than the image made transparent. The file must be saved as a PNG, then Imported to the Library in the Flash file, a new layer created for it, then dragged from the library, and finally sized and positioned on the canvas to work with the rest of the design. Files are saved as native Flash files and exported as .mov files when completed.

Reflection- I made an Eyeballs animation project this week. I used Adobe Flash to make this animation project. I first changed the color of the background, and did some technical stuff, like editing the frames per second. Then I made the head, the sockets, the eyes, and the ball on separate layers. I then created a classic tween on the ball and eye layers. I clicked on different frames, and dragged the ball to where it should be at that point. I had a lot of fun making this project, and I think I did pretty well!