Animate CC: Working with Sound

Objective:

  • Utilize sound in Animate CC movies.
  • Import sound to the Stage or the Library.
  • Open the Sound Properties window to change the compression of a sound.

Student-Friendly Objective:

  •  I can import and use sound in my Animate CC animations, and use the Sound Properties window to change the compression level of sounds.

Tutorial Link:

How to Use Sounds in Animate CC

Required Files:
Topics Discussed:
  • Import
  • Extend Timeline
  • Keyframes
  • Layers

Assignment:

  1. If you have not yet completed the “Pac-Man Quiz” animation we started earlier in the week, you should do so before attempting this assignment.
    1. Refer to Animating Within a Symbol: Make Pac-Man Chomp! if you still need to know how to make Pac-Man’s mouth open and close while he moves.
    2. Refer to Animating With Keyframes: Eat Some Dots! if you need to know what the Pac-Man animation should look like when you’re finished and ready to start today’s Lesson.
  2. Locate the audio files at the top of this posting. You will find “pacman_beginning.wav” and “pacman_chomp.wav”
  3. Access today’s tutorial link and read through the information on Using Sounds in Animate CC on the Adobe website. Use the information provided to embed these audio clips into your animation. Extend the timelines to accommodate the “PacmanSong” audio file length. Try to match the “Wocka2sec” sound to when Pac-Man eats the dots by moving the audio clips in the timeline to match the keyframes on the Dots layer.
  • If you don’t have dots for Pac-Man to eat, add some!
  • Remember you’ll need to use keyframes to get Pac-man to eat the dots.
  • The “PacmanEatFruit” sound is provided in case you want to add Pac Man eating the fruit like I did in the in-class example. It is not a requirement, just a stretch goal if you want to take on the challenge!

Save your work. Turn in your completed animation (now with embedded sound) titled “Your Name – PacManQuiz.fla” to Monday’s Google Classroom assignment post by the end of Friday.

Assigned: May 10th, 2018
Due Date: May 11th, 2018

Animate CC Review and “Quiz”

Objective:

  • Produce a complete HTML5 animation in Adobe Animate CC using all the techniques studied over the past two weeks.
Student-Friendly Objective:

  • I can produce a complete HTML5 animation using all the techniques we studied in class.

Video Link:

See video links attached to the previous lessons for review.

Topics Discussed:
  • For a complete list of Topics Discussed, please see the previous lessons starting with April 16th, 2018.

Assignment:

  1. Open the “Pac-Man” animation produced in the “Animating with Keyframes – Eat Some Dots!” lesson. Your Pac-Man symbol should now cross the Stage once, “eating” all six dots along the way. If you still need to complete this animation, review the previous lessons for instructions on how to do this.
  2. Today, your objective is to complete this animation by adding a Red Ghost chasing Pac-Man across the stage to the right, then having Pac-Man chase a Blue Ghost to the left. You will need to utilize Symbols, Layers, Keyframes and Motion Tweens to achieve this. You may use any resources you have available to you to determine the best way to do this. Examples of resources include: This website and the previous lessons, The Learn Flash Professional video series linked from the previous lesson pages, The Learn Animate CC video series on the Adobe website, Google Search, and your neighbors.
  3. The animation should not be more than 128 frames of animation.
  4. Press Command + Return (Ctrl + Enter on the PC) to test your movie.
    • Pac-Man should move across the stage (with the embedded mouth “chomping” animation)
    • Pac-Man should “eat” all six of the dots
    • Pac-Man should be chased by a Red Ghost monster to the right side of the stage. Both Pac-Man and the Red Ghost should exit the stage on the right hand side.
    • Pac-Man should chase a Blue Ghost monster onto the stage, cross the stage, and exit the stage on the left hand side.
    • The entire animation should be completed in no more than 128 frames.
  5. Save your work. Turn in the completed “Pac Man Quiz.fla” file to today’s Google Classroom post “Pac Man Quiz” by Wednesday, May 9th.

Extension Activity

  1. If you complete the quiz objectives early, then you are issued the following challenge:
    • Can you make Pac-Man eat a flashing Power Pellet and turn the Red Ghost into a Blue Ghost before chasing him off the stage?
      • Hint: The flashing Power Pellet can be achieved with keyframes or Motion Presets.

Good Luck!

Assigned: May 3rd, 2018
Due Date: May 9th, 2018

It’s super effective!