Week 9 - Pitch, Drawing & Interactivity

Monday - Assessment Due: Pitch your Storyboard to the class

• Remember to practice your pitch, prepare your presentation aids and read the Assessment Event carefully to see how you are being assessed.

Tuesday - Illustrator Drawing Practice (Using the Pen Tool & Editing Paths)

• You need to brush up on your Illustrator skills so you are equipped to build your game characters next term.
• Complete the following Exercises to learn how to use the Pen Tool in Ilustrator
1. Basic Techniques (Download .ai template)
2. Trace a Word (Download .ai template)
3. Download a copy of the Nike logo and trace it using the Pen Tool
• Finished the above tutorials?  Try some of these:
1. Envelope Distort Mesh
2. Gradient Mesh Tool
3. Introduction to Blend Tool
4. Fun with Illustrator’s Blend Tool
5. How to Make a Custom Illustrator Brush
6. Design with Swirls and Flourishes
7. Perspective Tool Tutorial

Wednesday Night - Interactivity (Controlling the Timeline Revision & Importing Movie Clips)



AS2 Revision
Animate an object in the center of the stage going up, down, left, and right using buttons.  The object must return to the center of the stage at the end of each move.

Use AS2 to control the movement of the object using the direction keys, by placing the following code on your hero object.

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) { _x--; } if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) { _x++; } if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) { _y--; } if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) { _y++; } }

Complete Part 1 of the following tutorial - http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2006/10/29/flash-game-creation-tutorial-part-1/