Using this Flash application create the four images you see at the lower right of the screen in hand-edited pixels. When you finish each one, screen capture it with Shift-Command-4, import it into Photoshop or Fireworks and trim it to just the square of your image is edited in.

Become intimately familiar with pixels and anti-aliasing

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Four images
• Properly cropped
• Anti-aliasing

Pick a theme that includes a short piece of text with a title. Try poetry. Keep the text to no more than a page.

• Timeliness

Create an image based on your chosen theme. Use vectors, layers and effects

Become adept with bitmap and vector tools

Image must be at least 1200pixels wide or tall

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Use of Layers
• Use of Vectors
• Use of Effects
• Technical Quality
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest

Take a given image and separate the foreground from the background, then replace the background with another given image.

Use any selection tool you like with this photoshop file, and use the Filter:Extract tool with this photoshop file

• Become adept at the path and magic wand tools in Photoshop
• Become familiar with alpha channels

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Path
• Technical Quality
• Clarity of Edge
• No Apparent Aliasing
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest

Build a basic web page with the tutorial at HTML Dog

Become adept at simple use of tags and basic page formatting.

Submit by send me your URL

• Timeliness
• Completeness

Using a style sheet and html, take your image and your theme text and create a web page.

Turn in by posting to your web page as “mytheme.html” and sending me an email when it’s ready

Become adept with advanced html features.

• Timeliness
• Technical Quality
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest

Bring in the URL of a site you find interesting.

Hand in by emailing me the URL by start of Lecture 8

• Timeliness

Create a timeline-based flash animation which includes a movieClip with an animation within the root parent animation.

• Become adept at timeline-based animation
• Be familiar with the idea of symbols and sub-symbols

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Basic Animation
• Use of Sub-Symbol Animation
• Technical Quality
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest

Use all the things you’ve learned so far, image editing, html layout, styles, flash animation and scripting to create a web page based on your chosen theme. For a good grade, expand on your image from theme assignment or your animation assignment (or both).

Demonstrate knowledge of image editing, html layout, flash animation.

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Major Image
• Flash Animation
• Stylesheet
• Technical Quality
• Error-Free on Dreamweaver Validation
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest

Start and stop a movieClip with a button.

Become familiar with simple Flash scripting, events, targets.

• Timeliness
• Completeness
• Technical Quality
• Does it work?
• Creativity/Aesthetic Interest