Week of September 19-23

Below are the expectations for the week of September 19-23.

Adobe 2-D Flash Animation:

Students are expected to be working on the assignment introduced Friday 9/18 entitled "Continuing our Work with Symbols & adding a simple panning technique - The Flying Butterfly Effect."

Although the due date is specified as the block day (9/21-9/22) it must be submitted as a .swf file in Schoology by the end of class on Friday September 23rd!  If you finish the assignments early I encourage you to add additional creative elements to the project to make it outstanding.

Be sure to utilize the step by step instructions in Schoology.  In addition, please watch the video tutorial I created (I completed the same project) posted on youtube.  The link can be found on Schoology.  If you have no assignments to work on for another class you should work on creating the background for our next assignment - for that assignment you will need a car, a mountain range, trees, etc and need each of those to be on separate layers (see image below).

A reminder that each assignment you complete is required to be posted in schoology as a .swf file and on your blog through youtube.   On your blog, please also respond to the same questions listed from your Windmill Assignment for your Butterfly assignment - I have also copied them below:

• Describe the assignment you just completed. What was the task and what needed to be done in order for you to successfully complete the assignment?
• What new skills did you learn from completing this assignment? Be specific and use correct names for the different tools you needed to use to complete the assignment. ie Classic Motion Guide, Keyframes, symbols, etc.  Reread the assignment description or watch the tutorial to remind yourself
• Was the assignment easy to complete? Did you have any trouble? What did you have trouble with and how did you resolve the issue? What was the most fun aspect of the project and the most challenging?
• Besides making the butterfly flap its wings consistently and using the pan and zoom features in your animation, what other types of animations could you make successfully now using similar tools to the ones used in this project?  How do you think the pan and zoom effect will help you with our next assignment that will involve a car driving down the road?

Please stay focused this week.  Because I am not present does not mean that deadlines will not be adhered to or rules will not be enforced.  As a reminder, phones should not be out during classtime and headphones need to be put away (unless you are using the headphones attached to the computer).

Thanks so much!