The project brief is this: To design an interactive animation that shows movement from one image to another from the five various (minimum) images. It should, to gain higher (respectable) marks, some form of button interface that utilises sound and visual imagery.
Okay, so this doesn’t sound too hard. I guess I could of made some proper progress on this project some time ago but I had originally considered this to be a project that I could whip out in five minutes flat (mainly becuase I have prior knowledge of Flash). Well apparantly this is not true and I actually have to work at completing this one, who would of figured.
So the first port of call is this… RESEARCH. Oh yes research, how fun this will be. What I will do for this is look up a few tutorials on how others have designed buttons and what is usually considered a graphically designed button interface. With the flashing of the button when you scroll over it and also the pressing of the button with the clicking of the mouse and such (I won’t silly talk from this point onwards, just felt it was necessary to pick up the post. Its been a bit blocks-of-text intensive).
Here are a few tutorials I’m going to be looking at (some I have already viewed in fact):
http://flash-creations.com/notes/actionscript_eventhandlers.php
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/11865
http://layersmagazine.com/flash-buttons-with-action-script-3.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJkqzCM3L4
http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=863
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvHsAsm_7yM