Unit 65 – Digital Web Animation Assignment 3 – Checklist

Explain how you used the following:

Range How Used Screenshot evidence

Workspace: stage, timeline, menu bar,
toolbar, library, colour palettes,
properties, preferences, help.
I used the stage to place assets, resize them and see what they look
like. I used the timeline to decide how long an asset would be on the
screen for and whereabouts the assets would come up. I sued the
property inspector to set the stage size, select when wanted to use
the grid and change the colour of a box.

Basic tools: drawing, eg pencil, line, pen, I created squares by using the Rectangle tool in Photoshop. I used
brush, shapes; free transform, eg rotate, guidelines to place letters in Photoshop.
skew, distort, scale, envelope, ruler and
guidelines; editing, eg lasso, eraser, undo,
copy, paste, duplicate, insert, delete,
aligning, grouping, ungrouping
Objects: symbols, eg instances, In Photoshop, I grouped multiple layers to make one.
duplicating symbols, swapping symbols,
editing, grouping

Colour tools: eg colour properties, I used the eyedropper on Photoshop to give individual squares either
eyedropper, creating custom colours, a lilac or purple colour. On Director, I selected which colours I
colour swatches, stroke and fill wanted to be custom colours so I could use them later. I used the fill
option on Photoshop to fill in individual squares.
Text tools: text, eg editing, moving, I created text in Director by using the text tool.
rotating, reshaping, scrolling, creating text
blocks,
converting text to shapes

Animation: frame label; frame rate; On Director, I made assets move by clicking on the dot that is on
timeline (playhead, layers, frames, frame them and dragging it to where I want it to go. I pressed the play,
rate, rewind and stop button to test out the animation.
keyframes, onion skinning, markers); frame
manipulation, eg copying, deleting,
reversal;
testing movies; frame by frame animation;
tweening (shape, motion)

Assets: importing, eg raster images, On Director, I imported assets onto the Cast window.
vector images, sound files, video files,
movie clips;
resizing; bitmap to vector conversion;
asset libraries
Advanced tools: scenes; guide layers; I was able to change the font, size, body and colour of text by going
masking, eg mask layers, animated masks; to Modify and Font.
timeline effects, eg blur, drop shadow,
expand, explode, transform, transition;
nesting movie clips

By Annie Magner.