Class Exercises
Welcome to Unit 4 Exercises
The assignment for this Unit was to complete all the Exercises in Chapters 7 and 8 in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Hands-On Training. Click on a link below to view the Flash Movie for each Exercise
| Chapter 7 Exercise 1 | This exercise shows two motion tweens. |
| Chapter 7 Exercise 2 | This exercise shows the same two motion tweens but with one rotation in the second tween. |
| Chapter 7 Exercise 3 | This shows yet another snowboarder - but this one was moved from the top of the stage to the bottom of the stage using "Edit Multiple Frames" |
| Chapter 7 Exercise 4 | Watch a snowflake fall along a motion guide. It's important to select ONLY ONE snowflake instance from the library and then drag it to the desired location at the end of the animation. If you select two instances from the library, you cannot setup the desired motion tween. |
| Chapter 7 Exericse 5 | Watch the text explode. This exercise demonstrates not only the power of Flash but also that "simple" animations can be tedious to produce. I have a better appreciation for people who say that computer programming is tedious even though I don't think that it is. |
| Chapter 7 Exercise 6 | Insert->Timeline Effects->Assistants->Distributed Duplicate. This is one you would be very unlikely to find just playing with the Flash software. |
| Chapter 7 Exercise 7 | This exercise shows that Flash has very powerful transition capabilities but the results of the exercise are not extremely impressive. This is like the "calculate prime numbers exercise" when you are learning a new programming language. You learn many concepts in the language but the results of the exercise are not impressive. Still, in both cases, you learn the power of the tool with which you are working. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 1 | Finally! -- I have a great way to put photographs on a web site for my parents to view. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 2 | Animation sequence - I picked 8 frames per second. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 3 | Animation sequence using bitmap tracing. The resulting file is three times bigger than the original bitmap version. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 4 | Masking: I always wondered how this was done. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 5 | Masking with motion tween. |
| Chapter 8 Exercise 6 | Cropped jumping snowboarder |
| Chapter 8 Exercises 7 and 8 | Snowboarder appears followed by background |