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Course Development Guide |
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October 1, 2007
Course Title
Advanced Animation Techniques
Course Description
Students will utilize advanced animation techniques to create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content to support videos. Students will develop, manage, and maintain rich, engaging experiences for easy delivery to millions of viewers on the web or mobile devices. (This course can be substituted for Advanced Digital Animation).
Contact
Carrie DeMuth
405-743-5426
cdemu@okcareertech.org
| OCAS Codes | OHLAP Credit | Course Length | Prerequisites |
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120 Hours
The 120 hours is based on a Carnegie unit, which accounts for 175 forty-five (45) minute class periods per school year. |
Advanced Design Techniques |
Knowledge and Skills
- Populate movies with dynamic XML data.
- Import a video file into Flash.
- Create a custom video player.
- Create an alpha channel video.
- Apply filters and blend effects to video.
- Use properties of graphics and objects to build advanced interactivity.
- Add navigation, audio, and user interaction to presentations.
- Develop a preloader, flash slide show, and forms.
- Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content to support videos.
- Develop content for delivery on the web or mobile devices.
- Apply intermediate scripting techniques for interactive design.
- Use various types of loops to repeat actions.
- Use callbacks to set up functions.
- Use functions to recycle blocks of script.
- Use arguments and return results.
- Store related collections of variables and functions.
- Create custom object classes.
- Use properties of graphical objects to build advanced interactivity.
- Add navigation, audio, and user interaction to presentations.
- Attach behaviors.
- Write scripts with Action Script.
Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures
Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/ace/
Brainbench - http://www.okcareertech.org/certify
Media Production: Motion Graphics Artist - http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Information_Career_Cluster.htm
Industry Alignments
Adobe Certified Associate
Brainbench
Curriculum Resources
- Macromedia: Training from the Source Books
- MAYA Learning Community (Personal learning edition of MAYA is free to download)
- Lynda Online Learning Library
- Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript: Training from the Source, Macromedia Press, ISBN#0321213432
- Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted, Friends of Ed, ISBN#1590592360
- Extending Flash MX 2004: Complete Guide and Reference to JavaScript Flash, Friends of Ed, ISBN# 1590593049
- Director MX 2004, Training from the Source, ISBN # 0-321-22365-9
- Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book, ISBN # 0-321-10379-2
- After Effects 6.0, Hands-On-Training, ISBN # 0-321-22854-5
- Macromedia Flash MX 2004 H.O.T., Beyond the Basics ISBN # 0-321-22853-7
- Macromedia Flash Professional 2004 Application Development, Training from the Source, ISBN # 0-321-23834-6
- Macromedia Flash MX 2004, The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition, ISBN # 0072229209
- How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, ISBN # 0072229691