Month / October 2019
Updated Schedule
Tuesday, Oct. 29: NO CLASS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY
Tuesday, Nov. 5: In class work day for Creative Animation + Intro to Character Animation
Tuesday, Nov. 12: CRITIQUE on Creative Animation + lab day to start Character Animation
Tuesday, Nov. 19: Work Day for Character Animation
Tuesday, Nov. 26: Work Day for Character Animation
Tuesday, Dec. 3: CRITIQUE on Character Animation + Last class
Animate drawing tools: 101
Remember, we are using the drawing tools for this project. Be creative!
- Merge vs. Object Drawing Modes
- Rectangle, Oval, Line, Pencil, Free Transform, Eraser tool,
- Onion skinning + Frame by Frame Animation
Resources:
Remember, you can work extensively within Photoshop to select certain areas of your artwork, place the selection on a new layer, etc. Once you import your files into Animate, these different layers can be animated separately.
How to use masking and Animating masks
Shape Tweening: 1. Start? 2. End? 3. Apply Shape Tween 4. Consider Shape Hints
Adding sound
https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/using-sounds.html
Supported sound file formats
- Adobe Sound (.asnd). This is the native sound format of Adobe® Soundbooth™.
- Wave (.wav)
- AIFF (.aif, .aifc)
- mp3
- Sound Designer® II (.sd2)
- Sun AU (.au, .snd)
- FLAC (.flac)
- Ogg Vorbis (.ogg, .oga)
Two great websites for free sound effects:
Easy easing
Easing allows you to control the speed of a tween to produce realistic motion with pleasing effects. Applying Eases on motion tweens allows you to manipulate the beginning and the end parts of an animation to cause a more natural movement of the object. For example, one of the many common uses of easing is to add realistic acceleration and deceleration at the ends of the motion path of an object. In a nut shell, Animate CC makes alters to the rate of change of the value of Property depending on the Ease applied to it.
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