Adobe Animate: Shape Tweens

Objectives:

  • Produce an HTML5 animation using Shape Tweens .

Student-Friendly Objectives:

  • I can apply a Shape Tween to a drawn Shape.
  • I can produce an HTML5 animation using multiple Shape Tweens.

Video Links:

Understanding Tweens:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs4/getting-started-11-understanding-tweens/

Creating Shape Tweens:
https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/shape-tweening.html/

Understanding Frames and Keyframes:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs5/gs02-understanding-frames-and-keyframes-/

Topics Discussed:

  • Starting a new HTML5 document in Animate CC using the Welcome screen.
  • Timeline
  • Playhead
  • Empty Frame
  • Content Frame
  • Keyframe
  • Blank Keyframe
  • Layer
  • Shape Tools
  • Shape Tween

Assignment:

  1. Produce a new Animate HTML5 canvas. Name it “Your Name –  Shapes in Motion″
  2. Use the Shape tools to draw a shape. You may use Merge Drawing or Object Drawing, but I highly recommend you use Object Drawing. (Note: Do not use the Oval or Rectangle Primitives!)
  3. Use the process demonstrated in the video to create a Shape Tween that moves and transforms the shape. (i.e. change the shape, color or size and move the shape to a different part of the stage).
  4. Create a new layer and repeat this process with a different shape. Do this two more times, using a different motion and transformation each time.
  5. When you are finished, you should have four layers, each with a different Shape Tween transformation.
  6. Turn in the completed “Your Name – Shapes in Motion” file to today’s Google Classroom post by the end of today.

Assigned: April 18th, 2019
Teacher Pacing Due Date: April 19th, 2019