Assignment #6 – 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- For this assignment, I wanted to embellish on the simple eyeballs animation because I have already taken this class before. I decided to use the same ball for more than one person, and it would have a change of background too. I made the animation part for the first person, and then used blank and normal keyframes in Flash to bring in the next person and background. For the people, I just used eclipses and the paintbrush tool. It think I did pretty well on this assignment, and I like my animation.