Monday, March 27, 2017

Week 31 2017 Update Portfolio

March 27 - 31, 2017

Assignment: Update Portfolio.
Details: Portfolio should have an App page and Flash animation page. Other Pages you should have are the home page, about you page too. Students from 1st semester should also have Illustrator, Photoshop and Audio pages.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Week 30 2017 App Coding

March 20 - 24, 2017

Assignment: Flash App Design.
Details: Build, Code, Evaluate, Launch your app.
Flash App Design

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Mit App Inventor

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ 

Flowlab

http://flowlab.io/

Monday, March 13, 2017

Week 29 2017 App Design Graphics

March 13-17, 2017

Object: Use correct dimensions for creating an mobile application.

App icon and image sizes (All sizes measured in pixels and 72 resolution)
-Icon Size: 1024 x 1024

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/IconMatrix.html




App image sizes (All sizes measured in pixels and 72 resolution)
-iPhone 5: Image Screen Size: 1136 x 640
For iPhone 6:
750 x 1334 (@2x) for portrait
1334 x 750 (@2x) for landscape

Download Template: ai & fla



Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Week 28b 2017 Planning

March 6 - 10, 2017

Assignment: App & Web Design

Details: Planning, Design, & Development:

ADDIE Model
a. Analyze -- gather and process contextual information affecting the goals, structure, purpose, content, audience, and design of a project.
b. Design -- plan the general look an scope of the application and the media it will use, along with the
budget, tools, objectives, outline content, storyboard, and schedule.
c. Develop – collect & create digital media content and testing of the application
d. Implement – publish the finished project and make it available to its audience.
e. Evaluate -- assess the effectiveness of the project with the target audience and make
adjustments in future revisions.

Adobe professional Model
Design and Development Process
a. Define -- Goals, target audience, content, and delivery requirements
b. Structure – Flowchart to portray the overall structure and screen views of the project
c. Design – design of comps, review with client, redesign from client feedback, and production
storyboard
d. Build and test – project production based on storyboards, technical and usability testing, revision, and final project presentation
e. Launch – launch and publish project

Assignment: Turn in on a word document.
-App Name
-Goal
-Description
-Target Audience

Structure & Design
Assignment: Create a flowchart to portray the overall structure and screen views of the project.

Development
Assignment: Research code and programs to code in.

Possible Programs: Flash Action Script 3, Xcode, Game Salad, Scratch, AppCoda.

Links: Flashthusiast

Monday, March 6, 2017

Week 28a 2017 Final Animation

March 6-10, 2017

Assignment: Final Animation

-100 Storyboard
-100 Five Backgrounds
-100 Five Characters
-100 Animation
-100 Five Sound FX
-100 Title & Credits
-100 Detail & Quality


Total Points 700



Assignment: Update Portfolio
Details: Export 6 or more still images (.jpg) of your animated cartoon (.swf) and upload to your online portfolio.



Creating Buttons and Menu
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/creating-buttons.html

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Week 27 2017 Titles & Credits

February  28 - March 3, 2017

Assignment: Title & Credits
-Menu (50pts.)
-Credits (50pts.)



Photoshop Assignments