Monday, April 29, 2019

Week 35 2019: Storyboard & Planning

April 29 - May 3, 2019



Digital Media
April 22-26Week 34

April 29-May 3Week 35
Character Design & Storyboard

May 6-10Week 365 Backgrounds
May 13-17Week 37
Sound FX & Animation

May 20-24Week 38Title & Credits
May 28-31Week 39
Testing & Submit Portfolio

June 3-5Week 40End of School


Objective: Brainstorm & Planning
Assignment: Storyboard (50 pts)
Details: Draw your cartoon in a storyboard.




Assignment: Create 5 characters and 5 Backgrounds.
- 5 Characters (50 pts)
- 5 Backgrounds (50 pts)













Monday, April 22, 2019

Week 34: 2019: Shape Tween & Graphic Symbol

April 22 - 26, 2019


 Objective: Draw using shapes and lines.
Assignment: Shape Tween Animation 25 pts.
Details: Use the drawing tools to draw a background in Animate. Use color and the gradient tool to make it look good.
Save As: Shapetween.fla




Objective: Use Graphic Symbols to Animate
Assignment: Graphic Symbol (50 pts)
Details: Draw an object and convert to a Graphic Symbol. Double click on the symbol and animate on new timeline.
Save As: GraphicSymbol.fla




Video Tutorials

Shape Tween Animation

Graphic Symbol

Pause a Character
Grow Character




Monday, April 15, 2019

Week 33a 2019: Basic Animation

April 15 - 19, 2019

Objective: Animate using the timeline.
Assignment: 5 second frame by frame animation. (50 pts)
Details: Use the timeline to create a frame by frame animation. You will need to use the hot key F6 to create a key frame & Shift + F5 to remove key frames. The animation will go for 120 frames which is 5 seconds.



Objective: Use Tween to Animate
Assignment: Tween Animation (50 pts)
Details: Use the timeline to create a tween animation. You will need to use the hot key F5 to create a  frames & Shift + F5 to remove frames. The animation will go for 120 frames which is 5 seconds. Use a minimum of 3 Layers.



Video Tutorals

Tween Animation

Flash Short Cuts

Pause a Character
Grow Character




Monday, April 8, 2019

Week 32 2019: Adobe Animate

April 8 - 12, 2019


Objective: Draw using shapes and lines.
Assignment: Drawing 50 pts.
Details: Use the drawing tools to draw a background in Adobe Animation. Use color and the gradient tool to make it look good.




Video Tutorial


Flash Properties & Stage








Flash Selection Tool








Flash scale & rotate








Flash Color & Gradient Tool








Flash Drawing Backgrounds








Flash Drawing Characters






Photoshop Assignments