Week 11 &12- Flash animation

Animation is a good way to add interesting visual instruction. A major application for this is Flash. In Flash you can use different tools to create animations, as well as, interactive menus and situations.

The easiest way for me to think of Flash is as a traditional animation board. There are frames shown that indicate what the screen will look like and to make changes you work with in the frame. Each frame can also have multiple layers.

To create interactive screens, you can turn an object into a button and use ActionScripts to move to certain frames of your animation.
Here is an example of an interactive menu.

*Note to Jay: Yet again Flash has bested me. I have had no trouble embedding any other type of media, but after trying about 10 different tutorials I have yet to get a working example.






Flash has many tools to create a variety of animations. However, it can be tedious and have a large learning curve. With time, patience, and some good tutorials you can make amazing animations.