Masks and Masked and how to make them!

•  Create the masked layer.
1. In this first layer you will create the object that will be shown through the mask. It can be text or an object.
2. Name the layer something like Masked_layer or something so you can identify it.
• Create the mask layer. 
1. Insert a new layer. This will contain your mask.
2. Create a shape or object that will be sort of like the window you look through to see your background.
3. Convert your object to a symbol and insert a tween or do frame by frame animation to make your mask move around the stage.
4. name your layer something like mask_layer or something to help you identify it.
• Edit layer Properties
1. Select the Mask Layer
2. Go to the "Modify" drop down menu in the menu bar and click "Timeline".
3. Select "Layer Properties".
4. On the pop-up menu change the layer type from normal to Mask.
5. Click the lock check box then click ok.
6. Select the Masked Layer
7. Repeat steps 2&3.
8. On the pop-up menu change the layer type from normal to Masked.
9. Click the lock check box then click ok.
10. Test your movie.

Action Script and Buttons

To create the Car Race animation:

• You have to make a stoplight button that will start the movie to make the cars go. 
1. Add a new layer and call it signal. It will house the stoplight button where you will click to start the movie.
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3. Click the rectangle tool.
4. On the properties panel change the color to gradient will the red going to black.
5. Under Rectangle Options slide the scale over to 5.00.
6. Make a rectangle and center it over the words "Finish Line"
7. Under the Free Transform tool change it to Gradient Transform tool and click on the rectangle.
8. When a circle appears around the rectangle, center the gradient and make the circle smaller so the gradient is more concentrated.
•  Convert the rectangle to a symbol and modify.
1. Under modify, convert the rectangle to a  button symbol. Name your symbol b_signal.
2. Double click on your button, either in the library panel or the stage, so that you can modify it to do something.
3. Insert a keyframe on the Over frame and change the rectangle color to a white gradient.
4. Insert a keyframe on the Down frame and change the rectangle color to a green gradient.
5. Click on the Over frame and select the rectangle tool.
6. Draw a rectangle over your symbol to create the hit area.
7. Click scene 1 to return to main timeline and check your movie to see if you can click on your button.
• Insert Stop Layer and assign a play action to a frame.
1. Insert a new layer and name it stopmovie.
2. Click on the first frame to select it.
3. Go to Window on your menu bar and select Actions to display your action panel.
4. make sure it says stop movie:1
5. Click the Add a new item and go to global functions, timeline control, and stop. this will make your movie stop at the beginning so it doesn't start till you click on the button symbol.
6. Click frame 65 on the stop movie layer and repeat what you did to layer 1. this will make the movie stop at the end.
• Assign a Play action to a button.
1. Click the button on the stage an make sure that b_signal is shown in the actions panel.
2. Insert an action by clicking on the Add button and selecting Global Functions, timeline Control, Play.
3. Test your movie.

DIfference Between Bug and Car

1. The car was a motion tween and the bug was animated using frame-by-frame animation.
2. The bug was something we made ourselves, while the car was something pre-made.
3. The bug had more layouts inside our motion clip symbol.
4. The car animation was something we drug in, but the bug we did it in the actual symbol.
5. We used different types of rotations in the animations.
6. The explanation process was also different and the car was very fast paced but the bug was slower and more comprehensible.
   

Movie Clip

1. First you break apart your symbol.
2. Then you select the parts that you want to move and make them into a movie clip symbol.
3. Make sure to change the symbol from graphic to movie clip before clicking ok.
4. When you double-click the symbol (either in the library or in the stage) you will no longer be inside scene 1, you will be inside your symbol.
5. Your symbol will be the only thing on your stage.
6. To tween your object it will ask you if you wish to make it a symbol. Click ok.
7. Let your creative juices flow and make your object move.
8. To go back to Scene 1, click on the Scene 1 link on the top left corner of your stage.
9. Test your movie to see what your object moves like.

Project Plans for this Week's project

I will make an aquarium with fish that swim using Moving Frame by Frame animation.
The fish will move side to side like real fish and there will be multiple fish.
The stage will be the water and maybe I'll put some motion tweened bubbles in the background as well.
I will also have decorative elements in the background for the fish to move through.
I hope I can finish, but maybe it will just be one fish swimming around.

Project Critiques

Pink Butterflies
I like it because although it's simple, in the future if we have smart walls i would like that as a wallpaper.

Hobo to Megaman vs Monster Version 2
Edit your pictures, clean it up, make the hobo instance longer. I don't get what's going on.

Futbol
Ball needs to be in front of net. More movement. Didn't follow assignment requirements.

Elaine
It met the requirements.

Untitled Mushrooms
Very entertaining and cute. You could have made the mushrooms green in fireworks and made them fade out on Flash.

Leap Frog
Good story. I like it.

Mine!!
I like it, but I would have taken more time to make the characters more mobil, and maybe add sound, but no one wanted me to use their voice :(

Mario VS Karate Kid
Edit your pictures better, and use more techniques. otherwise good.

Star and Heart
Meets requirements, and is cool!

NBA
Cool! I like the movement its a good story

Grr
Cool I like it!

Tommy and Shaggy
Good, but slow down a bit and a few glitches.

:)
Good but you could have used more animation techniques

DFC Dragon Eats Chicken
Good but you should have worked on it a little more. Cool name!

Chicken Fear
They should have made the stage bigger.

Animations I Used

Motion tweens
Motion presets
Shape tweens
Symbols
png files
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