Today's flash websites:

I Love Egg!

Andrea Nava's music video: I Will Follow You into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie


http://www.tokyoplastic.com/tokyoplastic1.html
Tokyo Plastic website and "drum machine": http://www.tokyoplastic.com/dm.swf





Artist Mark Ryden's website: http://markryden.com


"Creatrix"

Today's topics

• Gradient Tool
• Creating & Saving Gradients
• Overflow options for gradients
• Gradient Transform Tool
• View Tools
• Align Panel
• Locking a fill
• Filling shapes with Bitmap images
• Stacking Order
• Timeline's Layer features
• making a donut

Demo:

Dan Flavin's Green untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg), 1972-73

Demo: Can you recreate Flavin in Flash?

In-class Assignment:

Use the tools & techniques learned thusfar to create the donut below:

Stacking Order of Objects in Flash:

Homework:

Read Chapter 5 & 6 in your textbook

Some fun objects: Urban Vinyl Designer Toys:

Vinyl Pulse
My Plastic Heart
Giant Robot store