Get Animated! - Chinook Learning Services

Trial Copies of applications

Flash 4 Trial, 10MB, Mac version

download blender from blender.org (also look for lots of tutorials and example files)


Wavepad, freeware, link
This is a great audio editor. It lets you do effects like reverb, reverse, and a lot more editing like volume and equalizing), and you can import, edit and save as MP3.

Try the Swish trial for 15 days. It does work with frames in the timeline differently though. And Flash won't open Swish files.

Tutorials

a good button tutorial

link to the Game Development with Flash class page

GIF, Jpg, and PNG explained

+ TIF, JPG, GIF in more detail

download the Game Dev PDF 1.2 MB

Class work

The open .fla files are the ones you can open and edit. Right click to download them. The compressed .swf files are viewable in a browser. Click to view.

First Class

Zombies!.fla

Second Class

omg.fla / omg.swf -

Blood.fla / Blood.swf -

Fourth Class

Dylans_frogger.fla / Dylans_frogger.swf

Kaitlyns_frogger.fla / Kaitlyns_frogger.swf

Keenans_frogger.fla / Keenans_frogger.swf

Carol, sorry but you turned your computer off, so your floating elephant is gone.

Link to the Game Dev class frogger. fla / frogger.swf

Link to the Frogger description

 

Blender Stuff

These are blender .blend files from the CD that came with the book.

ArmRigging.blend

Footrig.blend

non-linear animation.blend

robotArm.blend

spaceWarp.blend

 

Stuff

Walk cycle - 3D
Walk Cycle in Flash tutorial
Walk Cycle - another in 3D
Walk Cycle.fla in Flash, download

Dragon Ball Z characters in Flash, download

audio script gif

paper.MP3

See: The Hero's Load first scenes blocked out

Instructor: a quick movie introduction demonstrating simple blocking and scenes: earth.swf (to view) and earth.fla to download and try

Instructor: another example of using different scenes to establish setting: clouds.swf to view and clouds.fla to download (Flash MX)

Instructor: using motion tweens to move a character around the screen, and also to move bullets to give a sense of depth: shooting.swf to view and shooting.fla to download

Looking for an idea? Try some randomly generated sentences: here or this one

 

 

Other files

flyingcars.wav, 151 kb sound
nobrain.wav, 142 kb sound
"that guy's dead", 33 kb sound
blind.wav
dirtybirdy.wav
dudeness.wav
nofood.wav
"the battle is yours", 40 kb
"there will be a day of reckoning", 54 kb


Robot jpeg, 12 kb
XMAS storyboard, 29 kb
Flash Xmas card, 198 kb

Jickets Pilot.swf
Evolver.swf
fordPOses.fla
DavidBoringTrailer.swf

Recommended sites

The Calgary Quickdraw Animation Society
They also have some summer camps for various ages. I'm not sure how much overlap their will be from what you learned in this class, though.

Deltron 3030 - Virus video
Sock Monkey
Homestar Runner - StrongBad e-mail
Drum Machine
Shawks

3D Cafe Sound Effects
The 10 Second Club

Mike Dawson Comics - interactive comic

Tutorial

hand study
Comet Cartoons - lip syncing
some walk cycles
some other cycles

 

Flash beginner page

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