Course Title: Introduction Flash CS4
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: William Harrel [Bio]
Description:
In this course, you'll learn how to create animated, interactive movies in Flash CS4. These days, Flash movies appear just about everywhere-the Web, the cinema, TV shows and commercials, computer games, and the list goes on. The skills you'll learn in this course will get you started on your way to a rewarding career designing animated graphics and special effects for one of these fun and exciting fields.
Together, we'll develop a fully-functioning Flash application, complete with animation, graphics, and interactive buttons. We'll start by getting familiar with the Flash workspace, creating text and graphics, and animating objects on the Flash movie stage. Then, we'll look in detail at the anatomy of a Flash movie, including how to use the Flash timeline, layers, and frames to control objects and timing on the stage.
While you can produce an entire movie in the Flash software, you'll often need to import graphics, sounds, and digital videos from other applications. As you create your first Flash movie, you'll learn how to format and embed external digital media and how to make them appear or play at specific times. We'll also look at how to control digital media based on specific events, such as end-user mouse clicks.
No course on Flash is complete without an introduction to ActionScript, Flash's powerful programming language. So we'll jump into ActionScript 3.0 by creating interactive buttons. You'll also learn to write scripts that control movie flow as well as scripts that call to and load external videos, Web pages, and other Flash movie files.
As we develop our movie, we'll practice making and animating 3-D objects, syncing sounds with animations, and publishing Flash movies to the Web
Goals:
By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the Flash software to create and publish movies and applications, and you'll be well on your way to becoming a whiz with Flash.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
No matter where you live, you will be able to take any of our comprehensive, convenient online courses offered in connection with a college or university near you. Click "Enroll Now" to find the partner school for the course you want to take.
Instructor Bio: William Harrel
As the owner and operator of The Write Desktop Publisher for more than 20 years, William Harrel was a pioneer in designing Web and print media on computers, a craft known back then as desktop publishing. In addition to running his own design firm, he has also authored or co-authored 18 books on designing print media, animation, and electronic documents--including titles on Photoshop, Acrobat (Acrobat for Dummies), PageMaker, Flash, and several other graphics and publishing packages.
He has also written hundreds of magazine articles, ranging in subject from Web and multimedia how-tos, to reviews of all types of software packages, including page layout, graphics, multimedia, and word processing software. His work has appeared in such notable magazines as PC World, Home Office Computing, Compute, Windows Magazine, Publish, Entrepreneur, Home Office, and many others. William Harrel has taught Web design and graphics design applications at California State University, Northridge and several other schools.
