Demo Topics

Hi all! Here is a list of demo assignments. The dates and topics have generally been randomly assigned, unless I thought you might be a good candidate for demonstrating a certain technique or concept. In your demo, you can show examples where animators have used your technique; however, you should definitely create a Flash demonstration of it, and explain how and when you might use the technique. Remember to give us all a handout that outlines your multimedia concept and tutorial.

* -- TU - 08.31.10: I will talk more about Motion Tweens and working with Text in Flash.
1 -- TH - 09.02.10: Katia > Parallax Scrolling
2 -- TU - 09.07.10: Misty > Basic Drawing in Flash, Importing and Vectorizing Bitmap Images, Gradient Transform Tool
3 -- TU - 09.09.10: Christine > Mask and Guide Layers; Shape Hints in Shape Tweens
4 -- TH - 09.14.10: Stephen > Motion Editor (Views, Easing, Changing the Speed of Your Animation)
-- TH - 09.16.10: ANIMATION PROJECT DUE
5 -- TU - 09.21.10: Charles > 3D Tools in Flash (animating 3D objects)
6 -- TH - 09.23.10: Mario > Bone Tool in Flash, Inverse Kinematics
7 -- TU - 09.28.10: Lucas > Button Symbols, Using Movieclips to Make Animated Buttons
8 -- TH - 09.30.10: Sarah > Using Buttons and Actionscript 3.0 to navigate across different frames and scenes
9 -- TU - 10.05.10: Jono > Basic Drag and Drop for symbols using Actionscript 3.0.
-- TH - 10.07.10: --
10 -- TU - 10.12.10: Jon Hart > Using Sounds in Flash, Using a button to play a Sound, Linking to external sound files.
-- TH - 10.14.10: --
-- TU - 10.19.10: E-GREETING PROJECT DUE
11 -- TH - 10.21.10: Jacolby > Making a Flash preloader.
12 -- TU - 10.26.10: Tiffany > HTML - basic overview: what is it, current standards [W3C], basic page tags [HTML, body, p, h1 - h6, a href, img src], opening/closing tags, nesting], opening new Dreamweaver HTML document
13 -- TH - 10.28.10: John Hallman > HTML - more tags [br/, hr/], comments, text formatting [b versus strong, i versus em], blockquote, HTML links [target (self, blank, parent) and name attributes]
14 -- TU - 11.02.10: Toni > Style attributes [center, font, u, align, bg color, color], lists [ordered lists, unordered lists]
15 -- TH - 11.04.10: Tyler > HTML forms [input elements, text field, password field, radio buttons, check boxes, submit button]
16 -- TU - 11.09.10: Saif > Defining web color (hexadecimal colors, cross browser color names, web-safe, RGB values); web image types (PNG, GIF, JPG - what are they and when do we use each one), optimizing images for web
17 -- TH - 11.11.10: Adam > CSS Intro - why do we have it (HTML 4.0 and CSS), CSS syntax [selector (id and class), declarations (property and values)], CSS comment syntax, making a new style, some CSS examples
18 -- TU - 11.16.10: Avi > CSS - three ways styles can be defined (inside and HTML element, inside the head section of an HTML document, in an external CSS file), how to create a style sheet, how to link to it from your HTML document, CSS background properties, CSS text properties, CSS Font properties, CSS examples
19 -- TH - 11.18.10: Nick > CSS styling links, styling lists, CSS navigation (vertical vs. horizontal), CSS examples
20 -- Michael > CSS tables overview, div tags, CSS image gallery example, CSS examples

HTML folks, look at the Lynda.com and the W3C website tutorials (HTML and CSS) for your areas. You need to show examples - try to make them as applicable to our project as possible.

(**NOTICE: Please come prepared with your handouts for everyone in the class and me [21 copies]...it is part of your grade to include these. Please also email me copies of your demo sheets for my records. Thank you! :) )