SCAFFOLDED VECTOR ANIMATION (a)

Sometimes jumping straight away into a complex app like Adobe Flash can be a bit daunting, so instead we'll go back to examine some basic ideas about animation.

TERMS & DEFINITIONS (Please take notes)

- DOCUMENT - a new file (usually represented by a white piece or stack of paper)

- KEYFRAME - in an animation app, a drawing that forms a key moment in an action.
note: in more advanced classes you will learn that keyframe represents a more specific definition

- FRAMES PER SECOND - How many drawings are shown during animation playback.  We will usually work at 15, 24 and 30 frames per second, with a drawing on every other frame.

- GIF - A document format that can play animation on most Internet accessible devices like phones, computers and tablets.

- TRANSLATION - to move an object from one location to another.

- ROTATION - to turn or change the direction of an object

- SCALE - to increase or decrease the size of an object

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ANIMATION PRACTICE
TASK:  Using the ABCya online animation drawing app, make separate flipbook style animations of ALL of the following.

(1) Translation
- An object that moves from one side of the screen to the other.

(2) Rotation
-Animate an object that turns around in a complete circle, but remains the same size, and roughly in the same part of the screen.

(3) Improvisation
- An object that transforms into another object

- A person (with mass - NOT a stick figure) performing an action or movement.

TO EARN CREDIT:
(1) Export each of your animations as a .gif and submit them by email to teacher.jwebb@gmail.com. (2) Also post to your blog.