CREATIVE EVENTS

P20 - Flash Animated Short
Animation - Adobe Flash
Essential Standard - 204.01 & 204.02

Essential Question: 
How do you create an animated short with scenes?
How do you produce a professional newscast?

Objective: 
To use the tools of Adobe Flash to create frame-based animation and to learn how to create a path animation

Assignment: 
You have been hired as an animator to design a frame-based animated short by Onion Skin, Inc.  They want you to create a 7 scene animation of a topic of your choice. (examples - kids going to school on a school bus, cars racing, skateboarder in a state town, surfer catching waves, etc)  

You are to follow the directions given by the project manager for the target audience to complete the project.  Once complete then you should review the checklist for grading criteria before turning in your work.  

You will be creating a Adobe Flash animation with multiple scenes.  You must have at least 5 scenes but you can have more.  The size should be 550 x 400 pixels with a frame rate of 30 fps. This will be a frame based animation so you will have keyframes on every frame with slight movement each keyframe.  Each scene must be at least 120 frames, but you will probably go much longer.  You will not use tweens for this project.  

Save your work as last name+first initial+short as an fla file. Export as an swf as the same name and a SWF. Submit only the swf file in the digital drop box.  Place a copy in your Portfolio folder as well.

Grading Criteria Checklist
 1 - Animated the figure frame by frame
 2 - Created minimum of 7 scenes for the short
 3 - Each scene has at least 120 keyframes
 4 - Scene items drawn and filled in with color
 5 - Background sky created that fits with target audience
 6 - Item is slightly adjusted and moved on every keyframe
 7 - Onion skin was turned on to help with keyframing movements
 8 - Animation designed in a manner that is visually pleasing, balanced, and creates an interest in the topic
 9 - Animation file is saved as an Flash file and exported 
10 - Final animation file is submitted with the instructed name for the project 

This project is due on . 
 When you complete all work, work on the Extra Credit projects