Sun Rising

 Our first complex assignment! I hope that you were both successful and proud of your first multi-step flash assignment. The keys to being successful with this assignment were as follows: 1. When drawing the various elements of your animation, you needed to draw them on different layers. In particular you needed the following layers:

1. Background layer (mine was a desert)
2. A road (on its own layer)
3. your car, motorcycle or other road worthy vehicle!
4. a separate layer for the wheels on your vehicle
5. A layer for your sun
6. A layer for your sky

Okay, now that you have all of those layers here are the magic instructions to make everything work:

• For the background layer, simply draw everything just the way you want it using the drawing tools.  Don't waste your time on the sky at this point
• The next best step would be to add your road (on its own layer)
• Next, on the side of the scene (or off stage) draw your car.  Remmeber your car and the wheels need to be on separate layers.
• For the wheels - Follow the same directions as the windmill assignment
• Draw your wheel
• Convert your wheel to a symbol (name it wheel)
• Double click on your wheel to open it in a new layer
• Now you will see  "wheel" next to "scene 1"
• Rotate your wheel 1/4 of a turn 4 times.  I would recommend keyframes 20,40,60,79.
• After you have completed 1 full rotation of your windmill (1 only), click back on scene 1.
• Go to "control," "test scene" and watch it move :)
• Now, put the wheels on your car highlight the whole thing using the selection tool and convert it to another symbol (call it car for example).  This will lock everything together.  Now you can simply insert keyframes and add a classic tween to make your car and wheels move together :)
• Next lets make the sky color change
• Add a layer called "sky"
• Using the rectangle tool, with dark blue for the fill color and no stroke color draw a box the size of your stage. (do not convert to a symbol)
• Insert a keyframe on your timeline (at 100 for example).  As soon as you insert the keyframe, change the color to a light blue to symbolize daylight!  Yay!  Your sky is done!
• THE SUN!
• The sun is easy ... draw your sun.  Position it where you want it to start.
• When done drawing, convert to a symbol.  
• Insert a keyframe where you want the sun to end and move the sun there.  That's it!

Remember ... you control the keyframes.  YOu can position them wherever you want!  That is part of your creative control.

Remember ... if your scene disappears when you add a keyframe, you simply need to insert a "frame" on the other layers and it will keep your drawing visible!