Lesson 2 - Creating and drawing objects in Flash. Take some time to do this right. It is hard, you will be frustarted. Take your time.

How to install the application? I did not make a video on this you will need to refer to the manual.

Book Reading

1. Page 43 - Make sure to understand the difference between stroke and fill.
2. page 54 - 55 - make sure to understand how to pick colors.
3. Page 66 - make sure to understand how to change the line option in the stroke.
4. Page 68 - The Pen tool. Nothing is more important than learning the Pen tool.

Videos for lesson 2

1. Setup Flash Application
2. How to Draw 1
3. How to Draw 2

In this section is a series of links to Flash information. Please review the info and try some on the examples.

Web site links -

1. How to draw in Flash
2. http://www.joysikorski.com/
3. Creating simple animation and publishing a SWF and HTML file.
4. Reading on the Tools

Adobe Web Site Videos

1. Working with the Flash workspace
2. Drawing Basic
3. Drawing with Pen Tool - Learn this please

Assignment 2 - Need to practice drawing. Need to create 3 different drawings. You don't need to send them to me yet. just save them in the same folder on your computer.

Next lesson will explain how to send the files.

The drawings

1. Draw a Smile Face. Use the object draw mode. See page 59 and video How to draw 2.
2. Draw landscape - draw any type of landscape you like, try to draw the entire size of the stage. See examples from past students.
3. Draw an animal - Draw a cartoon like animal. See other student examples

Video for Assignments.

1. Draw smile face
2. Draw Landscape - order version of Flash but still pretty much same.
3. Heres a video review - older video on how draw with Flash.
4. Heres some artwork to make a Panda - the file is in a Zip, compressed file. Uncompress before using.

Lesson 2 Vocab words - email to jrascov2@yahoo.com by June 22 - Please define within the Flash World.

1. Vector
2. Pixel
3. Stroke
4. Fla
5. SWF
6. Flv
7. Symbol
8. Instance
9. MovieClip
10. 9-slice scaling
11. Motion Tween
12. Shape Tween
13. Bitmap
14. FTP
15. JPG
16. ActionScript
17. Flash Paper
18. Alpha Channel
19. PNG
20. Flash Lite

Please define the word, not just the name of the letters, for example.

GIF - Graphic Image File format, a widely supported image-storage format promoted by CompuServe that gained early widespread use on online services and the Internet. Resolution is limited to 8-bits, or 256 colors.

Here some good example - Look for landscape and animal drawings.

1. http://www.mothergooserocks.com
2. http://www.shockwave.com