WK 4 Practical Experience: FLASH (post #3)

I've just completed the lynda.com tutorial "Flash CS4 Professional Getting Started" and while I learned a lot I've realized it truly is just what it says, "Getting Started."  I feel like its given me a basic understanding of the principals of Flash animations and how they can be integrated into the web but if I was to attempt one on my own I would be lost.  I am going to be using my free time over the next few days to dive deeper into the other tutorials so I can explore all of the possibilities of this cool software. I think my next step will be "Flash CS4 Essential Training."  Off I go!

WK 4 Practical Experience: FLASH

I spent a lot of time on lynda.com yesterday viewing their tremendously helpful tutorial "Flash CS4 Professional Getting Started."  I am really glad to have this helpful website to refer to because Flash is a lot more complicated than I had imagined.  I found it really helpful to used my iPad to watch the video tutorials and that way I had the full screen of my MacBook Pro to work on the exercise files provided by lynda.com in Adobe Flash.  Even still I found myself having to watch most of the lessons more than once to make sure I did not miss any details.  The learning curve for Flash is steep and I was quickly faced with creating tweens,  which concerned me because I did not want any part of contributing to the Justin Bieber phenomena.  I soon learned that these were another type of tween entirely and can be referred to as shape or motion tweens getting their name because they are what happen "in between" frames in Flash animation.  Wish me luck, I am off to learn about more about crating animations, adding interactivity, and publishing and exporting my work.  I will report back with my progress.

some of my work using the lynda.com exercise file for creating motion tweens