Flash Training | Chicago & Los Angeles

Flash CS4 Level 1: Essential Skills

This course is ideal for beginners who need to learn how to create Flash animations and websites. The course covers 8 Real World projects including an Underwater Animation, Solar System Animation, a Computer Game, Flash Intro with Sound, Flash Video for a Travel Website, a Theme Park website and more.

The trainer will show you step-by-step how Professional Flash Animators use Flash on a range of different Flash animation jobs. This approach not only teaches you proper workflow techniques but is also a proven training method for those looking to master Flash.
This Flash training is ideal for Web designers, graphic designers, marketers, educators and anyone who needs to learn Flash.

This is the only Flash course in Chicago and Los Angeles that comes with a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

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Flash Course Summary

Rocket Ship Artwork
Create the artwork for a rocket ship for your client, Rocket Overnight Delivery, by importing a sketch from the graphic designer. Learn how to use multiple layers for the different pieces of the design and discover the powerful tools Flash has to offer for creating your art. Add dimension to your ship by using gradients and background pictures.

• Setting up the Workspace
• Using Layers to Develop Artwork
• Drawing in Flash
• Painting and Coloring
• Using Gradients

Ocean Animation
Add interactive animation to a kid’s website for your client Bay Ocean Preserve. To complete this project you will import and manage the artwork provided by your client, build frame-by-frame animation and even animate in three dimensions. You will also understand the various button states, the different types of Flash symbols and how to prepare these objects for scripting.

• Working with Graphic Symbols
• Creating Animation
• Defining Button States

Solar System Model
Your client, City Children’s Museum, wants to add an interactive kiosk modeling the solar system with the planets revolving around the Sun. In this project you will learn how to create this complex model based on scientific values. To complete the kiosk design you will place static text in your file, animate objects along a motion path, and add movie playback controls.

• Modeling Complex Animations
• Aligning Objects to a Path
• Working with Text
• Adding Movie Controls

Gator Race Game
Build an interactive game for a book publisher’s website featuring one of their children’s book characters, Baggy Gator.  In addition to using your ever growing skill set you will add sound with ActionScript, use loops and conditional statements in your scripts, and setup variables and arrays. You will also learn more about controlling movie timelines.

• Preparing for ActionScript
• Working with ActionScript 3
• Creating Custom Functions
• Working with Variables and Arrays
• Adding Sound with ActionScript

Gopher Golf Game
In this project your will build an interactive game for a miniature golf course’s website. You will discover how to import and analyze artwork created in Adobe Illustrator and create various objects from them. Also learn how to animate objects in a random sequence, use dynamic text, and show different symbols based on the user’s performance.

• Preparing Game Artwork
• Programming Interactivity

Talking Kid Site Intro
Create an animated introduction to an online children’s library featuring a character that welcomes the children to the website. You will need to import sound files, allow the user to control volume, and add some built-in sound effects. You will also create a preloader to show users the file is loading and the estimated wait time.

•  Importing Sound into Flash
•  Synchronizing Sound to Animation
• Integrating ActionScript

Travel Video Module
Design and implement a video-viewing module for a travel company that allows the user to click on various thumbnails and view the related video. You will use Adobe’s Media Encoder to import videos from various formats. When adding the video to Flash you will define various playback parameters, create dynamic video captions, and edit component skins and text styles.

• Encoding Video for Flash
• Working with Components

Seabreeze Web Site
You will create a Flash-based website for the family-owned theme park, Seabreeze. Using their static website as a model you will create the site navigation, import images, and create custom scroll buttons. Also learn how to control navigation and dynamic text with ActionScript and use an external text file to display information on the site. You will also import individual flash files for each page in the site.

• Building Site Navigation
• Loading External Content

 Detailed Course Outline

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Flash CS4 Level 1: Essential Skills PDF

What's included

Adobe Flash Training Manual
CD Rom with Student Files
Adobe Certificate of Course Completion
6 Months FREE Repeat Policy
2 AMC Movie Vouchers

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