Animate Timeline
The Timeline shows where animation occurs in a document, including frame-by-frame animation, tweened animation, and motion paths. By the end of this challenge you will know...
- What is a keyframe?
- What does a keyframe look like?
- What does a frame(s) do?
- What is the playhead?
- What does “scrubbing” mean?
Principles of Animation
Watch this short video for an overview of the principles.
Then refer to this website for more details. You can find lots of resources on these principles through Internet searches. At the top of the Animate page of your Canvas ePortfolio, type brief explanations of each principle in your own words. This will be your "explanation" for updating your ePortfolio.
- Squash & Stretch
- Anticipation
- Staging
- Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
- Follow through & Overlap
- Slow In & Slow Out
- Arcs
- Secondary Action
- Timing
- Exaggeration
- Solid Drawings
- Appeal
Time to Animate!
Create a new Animate file (Actionscript 3.0). Use the default settings. Save this into your Animate folder in your One Drive as #_lastname_timeline_tweens.
Watch these videos and follow along...
Make sure you watch through the end of the Frame by Frame so that you know how to export your animation.
Turning it in
You'll need to create a YouTube account if you don't already have one. You'll upload your animations as videos and then update your ePortfolio with...
- Title of the challenge
- Explanation of Assignment will be the Principles of Animation from stage 2 of this challenge
- Embed the YouTube video