Your first animation will be to create a bouncing ball. Watch the video below before geting started:
Learning intentions
By completing this task you will be able to
Create basic shapes using Flash
Insert keyframes into your animation
Test your animation
Describe what a keyframe is
Success criteria
A saved bouncing ball animation
Ability to describe what a keyframe is in an animation
Before you start creating your animation we want to save this to your animation folder on the network.
Open the file menu and select "Save As"
Browse to your shared area on the network, if you need to create a folder called animation and open that folder. Name your file "Bouncing Ball" and click "Save As".
Use the oval tool to draw circle on top of your stage as shown in the video.
Use the shift key for a perfect circle.
inserting a new keyframe replicates the last frame in the timeline. use the selection tool to move the ball as shown.
Enable onion skin to refer to previous frames for displacement change.
great! keep inserting keyframes and moving the ball down until it reaches the bottom of the stage.
Let's play what you've created to stop click on play icon.
Let's apply the squash and stretch principle to animation in the next steps.
Select the last frame & squash the ball then select the previous frame and stretch the ball.
in the Next Steps let's try reversing frames you have created to bounce back the ball.
Right-click > select all frames
Right-click > copy frames
right click > reverse frames
Select first frame then right click > paste frames
Your animation is ready watch!
Click on the "Test Movie" button to view your animation
Open the file menu and select export. no select export animated GIF and save it into your animation folder