• I can prepare my Illustrator artwork to make a Bone Tween animation in Flash.

Video Link:

• None. See video links attached to Lessons 35 – 45 for review.

• Now that you’ve finalized the visual design of the character and drawn your character in Illustrator, you will need to prepare the character for export to Flash.
• Open your character model sheet and delete the descriptive paragraph.
• Create two new Illustrator documents, one for the front view of your character and one for the side view.
• Use the Arrange Documents button at the top of the Illustrator interface to view both your character model sheet and the front view document and move the front view of your character to the new document.
• Repeat this process for the side view, and save both documents with the appropriate file names (front view and side view).
• In the Front View document, use the black selection arrow to select the different parts of your character, and use the fn+F8 shortcut to convert each part to a Symbol. Every part of your character that is going to move should be made a separate symbol! Name each of the symbols appropriately as you create them. When you are finished, at a minimum you should have symbols for your character’s Head, Body, Right Arm, Left Arm, Right Leg and Left Leg. (Note: If your character has legs that bend or other body parts like a tail or wings, you may have many more symbols.)
• Repeat this process for the side view of your character. Don’t forget that you will need to have an arm and a leg “behind” your character that can be moved to make your character “walk” onto the stage when we begin animating in Flash.
• Both files, one with the front view of the character converted to symbols, and the other with the side view converted to symbols, is due Wednesday (05/07/14). Please ensure you have this accomplished by then, as you cannot continue to the animation phase without these Illustrator files prepared, and you will fall behind as the class progresses towards the final project.