Flash MX Animation Course

In this cross-platform training course you will learn how to animate using Flash. We'll teach you the basics of character animation, including lip syncing and Rotoscoping, and then how to employ these techniques using Flash MX, Poser and Swift 3D. Upon completion of this course we will have given you the confidence and understanding that you need to begin creating cartoons and animations of your own.

The two-day course features the following lessons:

Lesson 1: Defining Character Animation - This lesson looks at techniques for conveying motion (speed blurring, weight, opposing actions, anticipation, overshooting, squash and stretch), human movements (walking + fiddling), rotoscoping.

Lesson 1: Support Files - Code driven animation techniques to support the content of lesson 1.

Lesson 2: Using sound to enhance your animation - Lesson 2 covers recording sound effects, recording music, compressing sound, integrating sound and music into your Movie, creating surround sound effects.

Lesson 3 : Lip-synching and facial expressions - This chapter defines lip syncing, track analysis, shows how to connect sounds to lip movements, timing mouth shapes, eye expressions, animation and tricks of the trade.

Lesson 4: Internet/video - You will learn about publishing and exporting your Macromedia Flash movies, optimisation, publish settings. cartoons and the Internet (preloaders, Internet restrictions), cartoons and video (preparing your movie, outputting animations from Flash 6 to video).

Lesson 5:The PocketPC - This section looks at issues of interface design, size, format, bandwidth for delivery and animation techniques for both mobile and portable communications. This chapter is broken down into two parts. The first part looks at the hardware and interface issues that an animator needs to come to grips with. The second part is very much the techniques of animation for small devices.

Cost - £500