Syllabus

In Media Arts class, students will learn animation in Adobe Flash and game design in Scratch and GameMaker.


 * Animation**
 * Introduction to Flash Animation: Getting Started
 * Drawing Essentials: Drawing Tools
 * Drawing Face, Body, Background, and Cloth
 * Frame-by-frame animation
 * Working with Text
 * Working with Symbols
 * Using Onion Skinning
 * Shape Animation
 * Symbols overview
 * Tweening gradients
 * Motion tweening
 * ActionScript Programming
 * Working on the final project
 * Combining Movies with Animation
 * GarageBand
 * Presentations