Hello,

We will continue working in Edge Animate today. Hopefully everyone was able to sign up for a free Adobe user ID and download a free version of the software onto your computer. Once installed, take the application from the applications folder and drop it on to your thumb drive. We will be running the application off of your thumb drive in class.

DUE today: Project 1 handout  – questions 1-4 (see week2) – please bring a printed copy with you to class.

Lesson

• Layers Comps – Photoshop
• Review Edge Animate: Interface, palettes, creating graphics, creating animations
• Save for web: PNG, SVG, GIF & JPEG
• Smart Object
• Slice Tool
• Download class lesson files here: week4-lesson

In Class

• Edge Animate exercise
• Time to work on story-boarding ads (728x210px – 72dpi)

Homework

-> Complete in-class exercise
In Edge Animate (728x210px – 72dpi)
Create animation using: transformation, opacity, positioning, rotation with at least 3 shapes/objects. One of those objects should be an animating gif (created in photoshop and animating statically – see the heart example in the lessons folder).
-> Continue to send me interesting website URLs

-> DUE: Monday 2.25
Story-board and script sketch. A storyboard is a visualization in drawing of the different shots (shot sketches) in the order they will appear in the finished work, and includes compositional information (close up, pan, wide shot, etc.). Your drawings can be very simple-stick figures even. Hand in to me the three sentences that will appear in your ad (keep the sentences short!).

-> DUE: Monday 3.4
Static, realized design comp of your storyboard. This should basically be the finalized PSA designed statically.