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most lectures and assignments will be found on this page; all lecture notes shown in the pdf format will occur here (all application demos will usually not have supporting materials). All assignments occur as either PDF files or as html documents you can view on-line.
Fall 2010
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MMSP 147 - fall 2010 (Adobe
Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus Lectures WEEK 1 -3d coordinant system explained (not in print form) Introduction to 3ds Max tutorials (nice intro to interface!!!) - YouTube
-primitives and 3d space-robot -cameras
and composition
WEEK 2 exercises - week 2 -lofts: grecian temple + column images zipped
WEEK 3 -Timing - additional notes for better techniques with animation
exercises - week 3 -create a simple expressive animation
WEEK 4 exercises - week 4 -midterm project workflow chart (For teams!)
WEEK 5 New Features (graphite tools) - youtube graphite tools - design reform - tutorial
WEEK 6 exercises - week 6 WEEK 7 exercises - week 7 -texturing (see syllabus for directions) - .zip file with model and photo REVIT and 3DS Max (pdf)
Extra STUFF!!! -forward kinematics (robot hand and ball) +robot hand file -manipulators and morph targets
exercises - extra... -lip synching morph targets w/sound (found in 3dsMax sound folder)-.zip
file
Final Project and Materials
MMSP
146
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fall 2010 (Adobe
Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus Week 1 <<<<<lecture>>>>>
<<<<<exercises>>>>> Review Drawing Tools (icon design)
Week 2 <<<<<lecture>>>>>
<<<<<exercises>>>>>
flashthusiast.com/ (all about animation and flash) blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/ (blog that lets you look at flash environment / concerns / answers questions) Greeting Card requirements: motion tween, auto rotate that stops during timeline, copy of same motion tween path on two separate layers, split motion used, custom curve adjustments applied
Week 3 <<<<<lecture>>>>> animation principles + flash movie --- Motion Editor Explained Animation with Flash CS4's Motion Editor <<<<<exercises>>>>> Animated Text (requirements): Animation of text must represent word chosen. Separate letters into individula layers, Classic Tween and Motion Tween (combined), Masking (classic tween), Motion Editor Curve Adjusted (motion tween), duplicated motion (multiple layers - Motion Tween), Switch of instances (classic tween), Distribute to Layers, Embed Font used, Break Apart text used. Shape Tweeen will be added.
Week 4 <<<<<lecture>>>>>
<<<<<MIDTERM ANIMATION PROJECT >>>>>
tutorials - bone tool etc. (flash enabled blog) <<<<<exercises>>>>> Timing + example and WALK CYCLE!!!!!! - movieclip timeline animation defined .swf <<<<<readings>>>>>
Week 4/5/6 <<<<<lecture>>>>> Lip Synch Tips (pdf) dialog sheet (pdf) lip synch images - scanned from Preston Blair's book - Cartoon Animation (pdf)
Examples of Successful Limited Frame Animations The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Sound Effects and Music (extra)
<<<<<exercises>>>>> Omar's Haunted Trail Sound Effects (good short dramatic sound speech tracks) faces only (fla) simple lip synch demo (fla)
<<<<<FINAL PROJECT >>>>> Final Project Requirements (pdf)
Week 7 Bones (TIps) Parent Moves Child First Bone (parent) doesn't move Constraints are either
Can not COPY or PASTE Frames of Bone Tween No Motion Editor for Bones If you want to 'translate' bones across canvas - put in MOVIE CLIP Convert to Key Frames if you need to COPY / PASTE frames from one FLA to next
<<<<<exercises>>>>> Inverse Kinematics (Bones) example file .fla .swf Walk Cycle (movieclips) example file .fla .swf slider (constraint x) .fla .swf
Week 8
Interactivity
Lecture Load Movie Example - updated! (.zip file)
FLASH (OLD CLASS DESIGN)::: Movieclips and Properties Workshop character SIMPLE (simples movieclip) example .fla .swf character COMPLEX (movieclip in movieclip) example .fla .swf NEW! How To Character Creation Method + .fla example hitTestObject | draggables | triggered animations (below) version 1 - long hand. .fla .swf version 2 - short hand. .fla .swf audio toggle button (sound on/off) .fla .swf
IDST FALL STUDENTS (FALL 2008) Week 1 Week 2 <<<<<lecture>>>>> <<<<<exercises>>>>> - movieclip timeline animation defined .swf <<<<<readings>>>>> Week 3 <<<<<FINAL PROJECT >>>>> Week 4 <<<<<lecture>>>>> Interactivity
Lecture
Week 5 <<<<<lecture>>>>> <<<<<demos>>>>>
Week 6 <<<<<lecture>>>>> key codes (the keyboard key codes) <<<<<demos>>>>> creating a nested movieclip container for behaviors (part I) actionscripting the movieclip (part II) flash file - example from demo .fla .swf
Week 7 <<<<<lecture>>>>> scoring (fla) timer (fla) text and sound (fla)
IDST 120- spring 2004 (Adobe Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus
Lectures View
File Remotely: Download the dcr (shockwave file)
locally instead of viewing remotely: Digital Computer Graphics (terms, examples) (pdf) digital
formats (pdf) Exercises and Assignments Photoshop Filters and Paint tools 'mood exercise' (pdf) Image Correction Using Photoshop (pdf) photoshop collage (pdf) two illustrator exercises (traced type and button designs) + bitmap type you trace
Handouts
DAI 427- fall 2004 (Adobe Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus
Lectures
View File Remotely: perception -swf file (--) history (--) animation principles + flash movie (--) Disney animation techniques (--) timing for animation (--) interface design (--) movieclip timeline animation defined .swf (--) hitTest explained .swf .fla (--) - quicktime lecture notes (--) - properties, conditional statements .swf .fla (--) -
movieclip and button properties and scope
.swf
.fla
(--)
Download the dcr (shockwave file)
locally instead of viewing remotely: Exercises and Assignments interactivity
review + .fla
stuffed archive example (8/31) timing flipbook exercise (9/30) final project branching storyline in lab movieclip exercise + face example as .fla and .swf file (10/26) exercise
in lab - drag and drop, collision test, and snap (11/2)
Handouts -motion
tweens verses shape tweens (9/2)
open FLAs (via FTP site)
IDST 148- spring 2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus
Lectures WEEK 1 - History of Games & Game Genres (1/13) View
File Remotely: game genres (pdf) Life after the Video Game Crash Is Instructional Video Game an Oxymoron? designing game characters on paper <<<<<exercises>>>>> sketch (ON PAPER!) a character to digitalize for FLASH Create in LAB (using Flash example) DRAG / DROP 'game' download ZIPPED file by clicking HERE critique a game genre you are not familiar with
WEEK 2 - Character SPRITE Design (1/20) Great Web Games You Don't Have To Pay For (casual games article on SLATE plus links to games) Migrating from Actionscript 2.0 to 3.0 (basic tutorial) Flash Game University (some good info, book info, podcasts - both video and audio only) key codes (the keyboard key codes) <<<<<exercises>>>>> critique game character design on paper THEN build a character in flash using movieclips and use keypresses to control movement on screen <<<<<demos>>>>> creating a nested movieclip container for behaviors (part I) actionscripting the movieclip (part II) flash file - example from demo .fla .swf expanded drag / drop example (with snap back) .fla .swf
WEEK 3 - Story Design (1/27) Centipede VS Pac Man VS Donkey Kong Mario PLAY Centipede (shockwave) PLAY Pac Man (shockwave) PLAY Donkey Kong (shockwave) Another Donkey Kong (flash) <<<<<exercises>>>>> brainstorm a story | image ideas for brainstorming .zip add keypresses to your character .fla .swf PLAY Adventure ||java based|| critique game narrative for any game
type - NEW! Game Character Creation Method + .fla example
WEEK 4 - Level Design (2/3) level
design (part 1) level
design (part 2) What Makes a Game Level a Game Level? flowcharting (programmer info) game perspectives with examples <<<<<exercises>>>>> PLAY another flash based adventure game - http://www.albartus.com/motas/ level design exercise (on paper - due next week) Flash Interaction with TRIGGERS / HITTESTOBJECT / INVENTORY Mole.1 (just the character), Mole.2 (added: keyboard movement) , Mole.3 (added: hitTestObject-complex), Mole.5 (added:hitTestObject-easy) Find a Game to match some of the following OBJECTIVES: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WEEK 5 - Audience (2/17) rules
and audience <<<<<exercises>>>>> A Little
Game Exercise <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>> continuous animation explaination and tutorial pressing two keys for interaction .fla .swf
WEEK 6 - 7 - Prototyping and Game Design on Paper (2/24 - 3/10) designing
a game Brainstorming Game Design Steps <<<<<exercises>>>>> critique board game
WEEK 8 - Interaction Design (3/17) Interactivity
Lecture Notes Interactivity
Lecture Interactivity
Questions about Games
Serious Game Play!!! (use for interaction) water cooler games (casual game site) RoadKill to the White House: Extreme Move-On-Over Molleindustria's McDonald's Game
<<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>> moving between screens .fla .swf
WEEK 9 - Interface Design (3/24) game
UI design <<<<<exercises>>>>> design documents for final project chris taylor game design document template critique game GUI <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>> actionscripting (more examples - pdf) scoring (fla) timer (fla) text and sound (fla) scoring (pdf) added score to game character .fla .swf
WEEK 10 - Game Review... so far... (4/14) <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>> timers countdown (pdf) <<<<<game script help >>>>> --- offworld.com/ (reviews video game industry from the makers of boing boing!)
WEEK 11 - 2D verses 3D
WEEK 12 - SHOOT! <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>>
WEEK 13 - Game Sound (4/14) -sound and flash (pdf) example sound site to find your own sounds: freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio/ other links on my site at: myholler.com/flash/commune.htm game sound links: www.therecordist.com/pages/game_sfx.html and more: www.meanrabbit.com/wavhtml/wavepage.htm <<<<<exercises>>>>> Paper Prototyping for your final game project <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>> sound added (hitTestObject - Sound Object / sound inside mc of walk cycle of mole) .fla .swf sound version 2 (sound in walk cycle / on-off button sound / sound hitTest .fla dead char (locks interactions of keypress) .fla
WEEK 12 - Game Testing <<<<<flash example files for exercises>>>>>
Readings
Game Links www.online-games.net/newadventuregames.html
DAI
322 -
winter 2005(Adobe Acrobat PDF Files)
Syllabus
Lectures Print History (shockwave file)(1/3) Design Terms (1/3) typography (1/12-13)
Exercises and Assignments Computer Basics (1/3) Traced Type in Illustrator + type bitmap (type_b) (1/4)
MMSP 140 - fall 2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF Files) Syllabus
Week 1 <<<<<lecture>>>>> summer 2009 examples
<<<<<exercises>>>>> no homework due
Week 2 <<<<<lecture>>>>> drawing tools explored
<<<<<exercises>>>>>
Week 3 <<<<<lecture>>>>> pen tool, going between photoshop, illustrator, flash
<<<<<exercises>>>>> Flash Pen Tool, Photoshop, Illustrator
Week 4 <<<<<lecture>>>>> motion tweens, movie clip symbols Flash Animation (motion tween - new!) tutorial (Adobe Site) kirupa.com/developer/flashcs4/video/motiontweens_cs4.htm
<<<<<exercises>>>>> Text Animation Exercise (do motion tweened text only!)
Week 5 <<<<<lecture>>>>> classic tweens / shape tweens / frame by frame
<<<<<exercises>>>>> (do classic / shape / frame by frame tweened text only!) - see Text Animation Exercise above under WEEK 4
Week 6 <<<<<lecture>>>>> introducing midterm animation
<<<<<exercises>>>>> midterm animation requirements (ad banner or greeting card) due10/13
ad banner examples Great Examples: bannerblog.com.au/ specs + examples: bannerreport.com/
greeting card examples http://www.jacquielawson.com/
Week 7 <<<<<lecture>>>>>
flashthusiast.com/ (all about animation and flash) blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/ (blog that lets you look at flash environment / concerns / answers questions)
Week 8 <<<<<lecture>>>>>
<<<<<Final Project Discussion>>>>> Final Project Requirements - Pop Up Book
Week 9 <<<<<lecture>>>>> This .fla file is a demonstration of what you will want to have in your project. It is missing audio but we haven't covered it yet. It does have 'property changes' in it and we will cover this script next week. I am more interested in your organizing your files this week and leaving scripting troubleshooting till next Tuesday!
Week 10 <<<<<lecture>>>>> SOUND?????? (hope so...) tutorials - bone tool etc. (flash enabled blog) text and sound (fla)
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