• Crear animaciones en Flash CS4
• Conocer las mejores prácticas de animación
• Transformar y distorsionar objetos

• Conocimientos básicos del sistema operativo Windows XP o Macintosh X
• Inglés básico
• Conocimientos intermedios de Flash, preferiblemente que hallan llevado los cursos: Fast Track to Flash CS4: Rich Content Creation y Flash CS4: Rich Content Creation: Advanced.

UNIDAD 1 Design Styles

• Drawing with basic shapes
  
• The brush tool
  
• Mixing colors
  
• Using gradients
  
• Adding texture
  
• The pen tool
  
• Trace bitmap
  
• Shading 1: line trick
  
• Shading 2: shape it
  
• Shading 3: paint selected
  
• Shading 4: outlines
  
• Realism with gradients

UNIDAD 2 Transformation and Distortion

• Distorting bitmaps
  
• The Envelope tool
  
• Warping
  
• Card flip
  
• Squash and stretch
  
• Butterfly

UNIDAD 3 Masking

• Rotating globe
  
• Flag waving
  
• Iris transition
  
• Handwriting
  
• Spotlight
  
• Focus
  
• Interlude: A moment of clarity

UNIDAD 4 Motion tips & tricks

• Basic shadow
  
• Drop shadow
  
• Perspective shadow
  
• Blur filter
  
• Flying text
  
• Combining effects
  
• Blur filter
  
• Selective blurring
  
• Background blurring
  
• Interlude: Learning to be simple

UNIDAD 5 Character animation

• 2.5D basics
  
• 2.5D advanced
  
• 2.5D monkey
  
• Lip syncing (swap method)
  
• Lip syncing (nested method)
  
• To sync or not to sync
  
• Sync
  
• Hinging body parts
  
• Closing the parts
  
• Bitmap animation
  
• PSD Importer (Jib Jab Media)
  
• Motion guides (Jib Jab Media)
  
• Walk cycle (basic)
  
• Walk cycle (advanced)
  
• Anticipation
  
• Drawing upon oneselft
  
• Looping backgrounds
  
• Tradigital animation
  
• Interlude:How did I get here?

UNIDAD 6 Flash to video

• Document setup
  
• Title and action safety
  
• Safe colors
  
• Keeping it all in sync
  
• Quicktime Exporter
  
• SWF2Video
  
• Interlude: Graphics tablets