Web Animation With Macromedia Flash Jessica Anderson janderson@media.utah.edu (801)585-6849

Flash Web Site Freedom Knot http://www.freedomknot.com Mysterious World of Mummies http://www.discovery.com/highspeed/tlc/mummies/ Brain Pop http://www.brainpop.com/ Cyprus High School http://www.granite.k12.ut.us/Cyprus/cyprusonline/index.html U Street in Focus: Exploring Washington’s Historic Neighborhood http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/blackhistory/front.htm Virtual World: Great Barrier Reef http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/reef/reef1_flash.html Building BIG http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html

Flash allows you to: Create animation Add synchronized sound Add interactivity to your web pages Engage web viewers

Designed for Web Use: Small file sizes Downloads relatively quickly Can be used stand alone

Vector Graphics Flash creates Vector Graphics creates small file sizes Defined by lines, curves, color and position properties Vector graphics can be resized and reshaped without changing the quality of the graphic Resolution independent

Bitmap Graphics Defined by colored dots or pixels Better for photograph or "real looking" object graphics Resolution dependent fixed to a grid of a particular size Resizing can make it look pixilated or ragged Flash can import bitmap graphics

Vector v.s. Bitmap Example Scale Example

Class Objectives Tutorial Example Shape Tween Motion Tween Motion along a path Masking Buttons