Thursday, May 3rd

 

Animated Text Demonstration - Create your own animated text
Complete Lesson 3
Begin Lesson 4
Begin Lesson 5 - Working with Text

 

Animated Text
1. Insert a line of text, start simple with just one word at first.
2. Break the text apart (right click, Break Apart)
3. Go to Modify > Timeline > Distribute to Layers. This will put each letter on its own layer. Remember that if you are developing separate animations each object should be on its own layer.
4. Insert a keyframe and move the text off the stage. Create a tween and add rotation to the tween.
5. Select all the frames and copy them to the end of your current animation. Selected the copied frames and then reverse them. (right click - reverse frames)

 

Homework

Have a Great weekend!
Remember for an A at the semester you need to have your own personal web site. The site must contain at least 10 pages and include at least two pages with Flash animations.