| SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY ART310 | Advanced DIG | Spring 2009 | PRE-REQUISITE: ART210 and/or COM 241 Section H | T - Tr | 2:00PM - 4:00 PM CAS 134 | 01/20/09 - 05/10/09 secheverry at ut.edu | BAS 131 | 813 - 813 257 3769 Office hours by appointment only |
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| Week | Description | Assignments | |||
| 1 - ANIM 1 |
Introduction to Flash. Objects, properties, shape/motion tweening. Understading transformations in time. |
• Create a 30 seconds / 10fps / Animated picture transforming your favorite painting or work of art Explore: Flash Documentation Macromedia Flash Tutorials Flash Learning Center |
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| 2 - ANIM 2 |
Advanced animation techniques. Movie Clips, Paths, Masks • lowmorale.co.uk Creep / Radiohead • voozclub.com • atomfilms.com/af/animation/flash • goultralightsgo.com • insertsilence.com • whitehouseanimationinc.com • HotWired: Animation Express |
• Create a Flash animation of your favorite song - 3 minutes max. 10fps / 360 x 240, with an INTRO scene, a CREDITS scene, and some basic play and pause buttons. (due in 2 weeks) | |||
| 3 - ANIM 3 |
Advanced animation techniques - More. |
• Flash Practice 1
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| 4 - ANIM 4 |
Non-linearity, Fragmented Narration, Scenes, Navigation, Buttons |
• Create an Interactive Fairy Tale with at least 6 distnct scenes. I will evaluate both the architecture, the animation and the visual design (due in 2 weeks) | |||
| 5 - AS3 3 |
Basics of programming, structures, functions. |
• Create a series of practice movies where you will alter the properties of Movie Clips - _width, _height, _x, _y, _alpha, _rotation, etc - using variables, functions, repeat loops and conditionnals. |
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6 - INTERACTIVITY
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Types of variables, boolean, integer, float, numeric, alpha, arrays. Repeat loops, conditionnals. |
• Flash Practice 2 | |||
| 7 - INTERACTIVITY |
Applied mathematic formulas, understanding chaos. Parent/Child programming | Math Nightmare Project: Use MATH formulas to transform Movie Clips on the stage, be creative and face your fear of numbers >:-) actionscripts.org WebWasp tutorials |
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| 8 - INTERACTIVITY |
ARRAYS, understanding lists. Loading JPG / SWF / DATA into Movie Clips. notion of Data Bases. Interaction with Javascript. XML. |
• create your own swf album loading dynamically your files locally or from a server using XML / php+mySql | |||
| 9 - INTERACTIVITY |
Controlling video and audio in Flash FLV vs SWF, streaming vs pre-loading | • create a video-autoscopy experimenting with interactive video and audio. |
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| 10 - INTERACTIVITY |
Flash and the Web. Design for Motion Graphics. Dynamic menus and Interaction Design |
• Flash Practice 3 | |||
| 11 - INTERACTIVITY | Dynamic media: Integration of Live elements ( Video, Audio) | ||||
| 12 - INTERACTIVITY | Actionscript WORKSHOP | • FINAL PROJECT: design a mini-web site based on Flash where you will explore in at least 5 areas the life and work of a selected contemporary artist (to be chosen randomly depending on the amount of students) Use floating menus and scenes. | |||
| 13 - INTERACTIVITY | Actionscript WORKSHOP | ||||
| 14 - INTERACTIVITY |
Actionscript WORKSHOP | ||||
| FINALS |
FINAL PROJECTS PRESENTATION - EVERYONE MUST BE PRESENT | ||||