A-201 Demo : Tracing Image

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If your client bring a hand drawing sketch or some art works to you to create, and they want the new art work to match the sketch exactly the same, live trace will be the right way to go. Let’s prepare a good quality sketch, scan it, and get it ready for live tracing. You […]

Motion Tweens & Multiple Shape Tweens

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Today’s demos: 1. Animating gradient background 2. Animating symbol 3. Motion Tween and Classic Tween 4. Shape Tween 5. Multiple Shape Tween 6. Explode Text 7. Registration Points

What is the difference between Shape, and Motion / Classic Tweens?

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A Motion Tween animates symbols moving in space; when you create a motion tween, then you can click on any frame in the tween, move the symbol on that frame, and watch Flash automatically build a motion path animating the frames between that frame and the next keyframe. Any frame where you’ve manually moved the […]

A-421/VisCom IV_Fall 2012
Project-1A: AIGA Magazine

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A magazine unlike a book is a “warehouse” of texts, produced by editors, designers and advertisers, it creates an environment of truly mixed speech. Because of this collaboration and multiple voices, magazines can represent a strong challenge. The key for your magazine will be how can you create your idea, interest, format, and architecture, how […]

A-201_Project-1: Easter Egg
A-201_Project-2: Magnet Design

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Project-1: Easter Egg Objective: Utilize Adobe Illustrator CS6 to create four Easter Eggs. Carly Robison Jordan Tremain About the first project, let’s begin the process step by step: 1. Finding your inspirations, and starting your brainstorming • You may manipulate a photo or other images, but have to trace the photo elements in Illustrator 2. […]

A-201 Exercise: Tracing art works
with the Pen Tool_FA’12

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Let’s explore the Pen Tool in our first exercise. First of all, let’s get started with following activities A. Drawing straight lines B. Drawing curves C. Converting corners and curves D. Getting familiar with Pen tool, Exercise: Tracing art works with the Pen Tool family • Pen tool (P) • Add Anchor Point Tool (+) […]

A-201 Demos: Understanding Illustrator CS6 and Related File Formats

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Demo-1: Understanding Illustrator’s Control Panel: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs6/understanding-the-control-panel/ Demo-2: Understanding Illustrator File Formats: • ~.ai Adobe Illustrator File (when double click, opens the file by Adobe Illustrator • ~.eps (Adobe Illustrator EPS File): The EPS file type is primarily associated with ‘Encapsulated PostScript’. There are two distinct types of .EPs files, one of which is a vector based […]