This assignment required creating a text logo and modifying it over a timeline to rotate, scale, change color, and fade. 

I replicated my logo on six different layers and applied different functions to each. The top right and bottom left logos rotate 360° counter clockwise, change color, and scale down. The top left and bottom right logos scale down and fade out. The middle logo rotates 360°  clockwise, changes color, and scales up. Another middle logo fades in and scales down to form a shadow effect behind the other. In order to create the 360°  rotations in the desired directions, I had to create additional keyframes on the layers.

Link to Repeated Flash Animation

Animation Appearance at Keyframe Breaks

Keyframe 1

Keyframe 9

Keyframe 18

Keyframe 27

Keyframe 36

The Haunting

The Ghost Cursor

This assignment illustrates a simple mouse interaction: a graphic following the cursor as it is moved. In addition, I made the normal cursor invisible and I used invisible buttons to trigger the appearances of the apparitions.

This project required becoming familiar with the Flash ActionScript; a language similar to JavaScript.

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This assignment required rotating and scaling 2 or more objects at once. I replicated this assignment from the tutorial example provided.

 There are three layers corresponding to the three 'instances' on the screen. Each has an "action" associated with it: the arrow rotates and shrinks, the orange box scale up and the text, CONCLUSION, also increases in scale. 

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Animation Appearance at various Keyframes

Keyframe 1

Keyframe 6

Keyframe 13

Keyframe 20

Flash is indeed a more efficient animation file builder. 
The Flash Movie files are Vector graphic files. An AVI file is a Raster graphic file.
The table below outlines file size information. 
WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!

Flash has a scripting language called ActionScript which is based on JavaScript. For non-programmers, using the Action panel will create simple ActionScripts for you (via menus and lists). There is also an Expert mode that allows the more knowledgable scripters to enter more complex scripts. With these scripts you can make your flash movies interactive. (See Assignment 8b)

I have found Flash to be a syntax beast! Thing must be created in a certain order and a certain way to get the effects you want.

Something Important/interesting I only learned after I had consulted several sources: The _visible property renders the target disabled as well as invisible. A fact I did not discover until after I had been wrestling for some time with trying to get the movie clips to act like buttons and repeatedly failing. Several sources said more people use _alpha instead of _visible but only one mentioned this important caviot.

The current downloadable version of Flash is Version 6, Flash MX.  It is substantially different from version 5.  For assignment 8a, I made extensive use of the online Help to figure out how to complete the assignments. 

For assignment 8b, I found sometimes confusing/conflicting information when I sought help online in understanding ActionScript and most books I found didn't go into enough depth. One of the best book I came across is FOUNDATION ACTIONSCRIPT by Sham Bhangal which I found at the regional library.  It is an indepth description of the ActionScript language and it's function.for those interested in becoming more familiar with ActionScript.