COMD3662 – Week1

Welcome to week 1 of Interactive Animation

Handouts
ADV3662_HitchingsSyllabus
ADV3662_Project1Overview

Agenda

  • Introduction of the course
  • Course Objectives
  • Website – Hosting and Domain (you will need one for the class – if you have an existing site that will be fine. If you have none you will need to get one. Department recommends: Kionic
  • Interactive storytelling and animation – examples
  • Grant Skinner –

“Grant Skinner is an innovator who thrives on pushing through problems and is inspired by the unknown technological possibilities ahead.

As the CEO of gskinner.com, a rich interactive design firm based in Alberta, Canada, he loves playing with technology in a research and development role. It was his passion for exploring new frontiers that led him to the Internet, where he began building content that no one had seen before.” – Lynda.com

Lesson
lesson-week1

Exercise: Create Animated GIFs with Photoshop (300 x 250px, 72dpi)
Choose two words, opposite in meaning. Create one animation to show meaning in each word.

Inspiration Resources

Tutorials

Tools

  • Adobe Edge Animate
  • Dreamweaver
  • TextWrangler (free for Macs) – general purpose editor for HTML and Javascript
  • Notepad++ (free for PC) – general purpose editor
  • The Firefox Firebug extension
  • The Google Chrome

Homework