Animation Using Flash and Photoshop

What is Flash?
• Macromedia Flash is a multimedia graphics program specially for use on the Web
• Flash enables you to create interactive "movies" on the Web
• Flash uses vector graphics, which means that the graphics can be scaled to any size without losing clarity/quality
• Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn
-from W3Schools.com
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_intro.asp

Phong Flash Animation Tutorial
http://www.phong.com/tutorials/flash/animation/index2.php
“When an object squashes and stretches, it appears to be composed of a softer, organic, elastic material. Objects which do not stretch appear rigid and plain.”

Idlewild: Tutorials: Bouncing Ball
http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/01b/bball.shtml

This is everything you need to understand the basic principles of animation, especially squash and stretch.

Cartoonster: Fun Animation Tutorials
http://www.cartoonster.com/
This site demonstrates the effect of frame rate (frames per second). Squash and stretch are also covered again in this simple tutorial

Acky.net Tutorials: Flash : Bouncing Ball
http://www.acky.net/tutorials/flash/bouncing_ball/
This is another approach to the bouncing ball, try it this way for homework: try to understand “Easing In” and “Easing Out”.

Macromedia Software
http://www.macromedia.com
Download the trial version of Flash MX 2004 from this site, if you want to work at home.

Animation the old Fashioned Way with Flash
http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=28807&rl=1


Animation Tutorials for Flash
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/flashtutsanimation/

ANIMATED GIFS
Creating Animated GIFs in Photoshop 7 and ImageReady
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31536&rl=1
This is an in-depth tutorial on creating animated GIFS. Refer to this article to review everything you need to know to create animated.