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Computer Graphic Design

COMPUTER GRAPHIC DESIGN 1-2: FINAL EXAM – SPRING 2025

Objective:

  • I can demonstrate my understanding of Graphic Design Principles and Adobe software basics through a summative exam.

Links:

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/

Topics Discussed:

  • Computer Graphic Design
  • Principles of Design
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Animate

Assignment:

  1. Click the Google Classroom link and log in with your Haydenmagnet.org email address.
  2. Click on the Google Form at the bottom of the most recent Assignment Post titled “CGD1-2 – Final Exam Spring 2025“.
  3. This exam is primarily multiple choice, with dropdown selections. Please read and follow the instructions in each section of the exam.
  4. This is a comprehensive exam, covering the Principles of Design, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Animate.
  5. This exam is an “open resource” exam, meaning you may use any materials accessible on your computer. This includes any websites, past assignments, completed projects, installed applications, or notes you may have taken.
  6. You may not collaborate with your classmates. Please remain silent until everyone has completed the exam.
  7. You have fifty minutes to complete the test. You must submit your test answers before the end of the class period.
  8. If you still need time to work on your Final Animation, you may do so until the end of the class period, and after school today.
  9. Graduating Seniors: Congratulations, and good luck in your future pursuits! I know the skills you have acquired in this class serve you well, no matter what the path ahead holds for you. Don’t forget to use your C.R.A.P. in whatever you create, and may your results never look like actual crap.
  10. Returning Students: See you next week, where we will watch all your animations together in a Computer Graphic Design Film Festival!

Congratulations on completing Computer Graphic Design 1-2, and thanks for all your hard work this semester! I know with a certainty the design skills and knowledge you have acquired in this class will help you with your continued studies, especially in Mrs. Delgado’s Advanced Media Imaging and Multimedia classes, or in any classes you take in college or career you choose to pursue.

No matter what you do, or where you go, good design and good visual communication skills will make everything you create easier to read and nicer to look at.

Keep moving forward with your studies of visual communication and graphic design, and keep helping to make the world a more beautiful place!

Posted: May 16th, 2025

Computer Graphic Design

“YouToon” Animation Project – Final Animation – Spring 2025

Objective:

  • Produce a complete HTML5 animation that features the student’s original character.

Topics Discussed:

  • IK Armature
  • Bone Tool
  • Motion Tween
  • For a complete list of Topics Discussed, please see the previous weeks’ lessons.

Assignment:

  • First, Open a new Animate CC HTML5 canvas. Make the size HD, and set the framerate to 30fps.
  • Use File -> Import -> Import to Stage to import your character’s front and side views to separate layers. Your characters should be imported to a single layer, and should appear as a group of symbols (the symbols you created in Illustrator in the previous lesson).
  • Using the Adobe Animate CC techniques studied in class, design an HTML5 animation using bone tweens and embedded animation to have your character “walk” onto the stage, wave to the viewer, then leave the stage.
  • Your animation must be a minimum of 8 seconds long, without titles. (That’s at least 240 frames at 30fps!)
  • Your animation should have an original photograph as a background. You may not use any photographs downloaded from the internet. Alternately, you may draw your own background in Illustrator, Animate, or Photoshop.
  • Your animation should have an audio soundtrack. I will provide music clips to use, but you may import music that you have available as long as you use less than 8 seconds of music. You may create sounds using Garageband if you have experience with this software.
    • IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to a glitch in the way Adobe Animate exports audio, you must start your music at Frame 2 of your animation! This is a recently discovered glitch, and not part of Adobe Animate’s normal function, but an important step if you want your music to play in the final exported .mp4 movie!
  • You may only use audio, images and text that you have created yourself or that I have provided. This includes music, artwork, photographs and animations. Anything you did not create yourself may not be used (with the sole exception of the music clips I provide).
  • When your animation is complete, export it as a movie. Go to the File Menu –> Export –> Export Video/Media, leave all the Default settings and click the blue “Export” button to convert your animation to a finished .mp4 video. The exported video will have the same filename as your .fla file, with an .mp4 extension.
  • Turn the finished .fla Animation file and the exported .mp4 movie  to the Google Classroom “Final Animation” assignment post by end of day on Friday, May 16th.
  • All completed movies will be viewed at an in-class film presentation next week. Note: All seniors must take their final exam on the 16th.
  • You must have an 8-second movie to present on Friday, May 16th. Failure to do so will result in an “zero” on your final project grade.

Project Rubric:

The assignment will be graded based on the criteria listed on the rubric provided below. Use the rubric to achieve as many of the project requirements as possible to achieve the highest score!

Final Animation Project Rubric Spring 2025

Do your best, and good luck!

Assigned: May 12th, 2025
Due Date: May 16th, 2025