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Flash Skills Lessons 1 – 3 Assessment (test grade)

Create a new folder in your Flash folder called Assessment. Save your file in your Assessment folder. File name is assessment1-Pixar

You will be importing your Pixar character into Flash and designing a scene for the character.

Tomorrow you will animate this character. You will show your character to the class, make sure you are proud of your work.

Getting Started: (20 points)

  1. Open a new Flash file – ActionScript 2.0.
  2. Click File>Import>Import to Stage>Browse to your Pixar Character>Import
  3. In the dialog box, make sure the Flash Layers option is selected in the Convert Layers To menu.
  4. Make sure the Place Object at Original Position option is NOT checked, nor are the other three options checked.
  5. Create another layer named background.

Scene: (20 points) Draw a scene in Flash for your character on a the background layer. The background and foreground may be rough, but should include color. It should be obvious where the character is in the scene (a jungle, a boat, in a kitchen, etc).

You must use all of the following tools and will verbally explain to your instructor how you used each tool.

  • Pencil (10 points)
  • Pen (10 points)
  • Brush (10 points)
  • Rectangle, oval and/or polystar tool (10 points)
  • Selection tool to reshape a selection (10 points)
  • All layers are named (10 points)