Students hand in their storyboards for the educational animation
Students work in threes – but must split up scenes
Each student must make some sound (with Aviary) to use in their scene.
Students should share main graphics in student4teacher

Storyboard an educational animation to teach something to someone else – for example you could animate a volcano (maybe the recent one in Iceland)
You will also need to plan buttons and sound.

Look at the Greek Gods Flash Website

and this climate change website

Today we’ll make a button to click between scenes  – it’s on May 19th

Grade 9 Test 2   FLASH AD (50 marks)

FIRST 10 minutes Planning on PAPER (5 marks)

Create a simple advertisement in FLASH to make young couples buy 3DTV (Audience – Parents 30+ years of age)

SAVE the .fla file in your HOME DRIVE as 3d_advert_myname

It should be made up of IMAGES and TEXT (NO SOUND)

There should be lots of movement and colour

You can use your SLOGAN from the PSP test.

Don’t forget you have to BREAK text APART if you want to Shape Tween it.

The final animation must work in  Control – TEST MOVIE and must stop at the end.

There should be:

A MOTION TWEEN (5)

A SHAPE TWEEN     (5)

SINGLE FRAME animation  (5)

At least 3 scenes (5)

BUTTONS which link the scenes (10)

(see the blog –  rogjam.edublogs.org if you have forgotten)      

ACTIONSCRIPT  2 ‘stop’  and ‘play’ (5)

IMAGINATIVE  use of  text and images (your own/internet) (10)

Images from the internet should NOT have white backgrounds

Images from the internet should be acknowledged at the end of your animation.

COPY and PASTE the final FLA file into Students4Teacher\R. Platt\tech92\zzz_flash_3D_test

button1
Here’s how you make a simple button to switch from one scene to another.

Make a new flash file (ACTIONSCRIPT 2)
Make a simple blue square
Put a keyframe in frame 25
Move the square to the other side of the stage
Motion tween it
Right click on frame 25
Select ‘actions’
Put a ‘stop’ into it (in Timeline Control)

Insert scene (to make scene 2)
Make a red circle (which travels the other way)
Put a keyframe in frame 25
Move the circle to the other side of the stage
Motion tween it
Right click on frame 25
Select ‘actions’
Put a ‘stop’ into it (in Timeline Control)

Go back to scene 1
Add a new layer
Call this layer ‘button’
Insert a BLANK KEYFRAME in frame 25
Make a Yellow circle in the bottom LEFT HAND side
Select the circle (with the selection tool)
Modify – convert to symbol
Choose BUTTON
RIGHT CLICK on the BUTTON
Choose ACTIONS
Click MOVIE CLIP CONTROL
DOUBLE CLICK – ‘on’
DOUBLE CLICK – ‘release’
Shift the cursor AFTER the curly brackets
Click TIMELINE CONTROL
DOUBLE CLICK – ‘play’
DOUBLE CLICK – ‘nextscene’

on (release) {play();
nextScene();
}

Go to scene 2
Select frame 1
RIGHT CLICK – choose ACTIONS
Click on Timeline Control
DOUBLE CLICK ‘play’

Make sure you SAVE before trying the movie out

NOW – make sure you know the key facts in the development of animation (See posts below)

1) FADE
Go to http://riverside.iszl.ch/moodle
Log in using your network username and password
Go to Flash Basic
20-26 May
Download 3 pictures to your Flash Folder
baby
excited
old
Click on Fade for instructions on how to Fade in and out
(DON”T FORGET to click on the movie clip to make the Properties bar at the bottom change – so you can change the alpha value)

2) ZOOM
Now do the Zoom exercise
Download
Car_front
Car_back
Road
Click on Zoom for the instructions

3) Now make your own animation using Zoom and Fade in/out
Try a road with your own car pictures
Or a rocket launch
Or an aeroplane taking off/landing

This is the last lesson for finishing and submitting your Flash animation for younger students.
Remember it must have some sound/narration

When you have finished SAVE in your Home drive
COPY and PASTE the fla file into students4teacher/R PLatt/ Tech9?/zzz_flash_final_may12

EXTENSION
Either
Carry on with your Powerpoint on the Development of animation using the 3 films and the facts on the blog
Or
Make Toad walk
Go to the riverside Moodle
http://riverside.iszl.ch/moodle/
Log in (using your normal network username and password)
Go to FLASH BASIC
Go to 25th June
Download the Flash Fla File
Click on 1-5 and see if you can make Toad walk
or click on these direct links
http://www.flashcartoons.org/lessona1.php (Download fla file)
http://www.flashcartoons.org/lessona2.php (Make toad walk – there are 5 pages)

IF you have done this last year you can experiment with a Tom and Jerry style cartoon
Try to mimic the movements of a Cat chasing a Mouse

UPA – United Productions of America founded by Dave Hilberman, Zack Schwarts abd Steve Bosuston – got a contract with Columbia for distribution.
Fox and Crow and Mister Magoo (2 oscars 1953/55)
Flat stylised approach

Warner Brothers – Slapstick and funny gags
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck
Tweety
Loonie Tunes and Merrie Melodies

Fritz Freelang and Tex Avery
Road Runner
Wil E Cyote
Speedy Gonzalez

John Burton – Network Television
Bugs Bunny Show
1969 – Cable Television
Metro goldwln Mayer – hired Harman and Ising team
‘Happy Harmonies’
Peace on Earth

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Puss gets the boot (Tom and Jerry
1957 MGM halted cartoon production
HB Productions took over
Huckleberry Hound Show
Flintstones – exclusively for TV

As TV took over and budgets were cut the quality of American cartoons suffered
Yogi Bear
Scooby Do
1970 Golden age over
Cartoon Network started on TV

Homework
Look at zoomquilt – http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf
What are the artists trying to do?

Continue your Powerpoint on Animation Development with Part 2 ‘The Disney Years’

Otto Messmer ‘Felix the Cat’ 1926 Worldwide fame
Bray studios were coming to an end in 1930
His animators spread their wings
Max Fleisher the inventor of Rotoscoping (drawing over film) and later to make Superman made KoKo the Clown.
When sound came in KoKo was replaced by Betty Boop
Another Bray Studios animator Walter Lantz (Dinky Doodle) joined Walt Disney in Hollywood

Walt Disney had joined with a talented animator Ubbe Iwerks to found a small company and made Laugh O’Grams form Frank Newman an owner of movie theatres in Kansas.
When his fledgling company went bust Walt Disney left Kansas and joined his brother Roy Disney in Hollywood in 1923.
In 1927 they got a contract with Margaret Winkler for their Alice series. They formed the Disney Brothers Company and employed Iwerks and Harman.Their first cartoon was Oscar (originally Oswald the Rabbit.
Disney launched his most famous character Mickey Mouse in ‘Plane Crazy’ and ‘Gallopin Gaucho’.
In 1928 they embraced sound (Talkie pictures were just coming in with Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer)with Mickey Mouse in ‘Steamboat Willie’.
Walt Disney trademarked his most famous creation – soon there would be others including Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck.

In the 1930s Walt Disney went into huge debt to produce the first animated feature film ‘Snow White’. He spent 2 million dollars and it took three years, premiering in 1937.
It made eight and a half million dollars an immense amount in those days.

Starter
Make a Powerpoint on computer animation (called ‘The Development of Animation’) in your own words – by watching the video and using the following facts from it to help you google more information.

1900 James Stuart Blackton – Vitograph
1906 Humorous Faces

Emile Cohl Fantasmagorie (700 drawings on Rice Paper)
The Man in the Moon

Winsor McCay 3D Persective
The Story of a Mosquito
Gertie the Dinosaur

John Randolph Bray – Zinc etching on tracing paper
Invented the Cell system of animation
1914 – Training films for the army
Bray and Sam Goldwyn joined forces
1920 Thomas the Cat (First colour cartoon)

Main
Carry on making your own animation for a younger student.

Extension
Watch this modern animation from aniboom – write some notes on whether you like it or not and why.
http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/15562/Space-Alone/

Homework
Write a review of your favourite Animated movie. Why do you like it?