Introduction to Computer Animation using Wick Editor (Flash alternative)

Wick Editor - "Our mission is to create free tools that allow beginners and intermediate creators to make any kind of 2D media"

Wick Editor is a fun program to animate and is cloud based so no need to install anything and work great with Chrome books. Tricky to get started, but once basics have been learned, students have fun and soon work independently to create imaginative animation projects / fun animated memes / gifs.

A bundle of 6 detailed lessons, including the animation, detailed instructions on how to create them, a short video clip of the animation and all images and sound files to create them ( and all animations to load into Wick Editor too). Uses free online software called Wick Editor as a replacement to Adobe Flash. One of the most enjoyable units to get 11,12,13 - any age, interested in animation.

Lesson 1 : Animation for the web Introduction :

Introduces how we see animations and compares animation software , why we no longer use flash and introduces Wick Editor. Look at celebrated examples including A nightmare at Christmas and Wallace and Gromit. Students create a frame by frame animation of "Peter Griffin" from Family Guy and a stickman animation on paper and digitally.

Lesson 2 : Using Tweens :

Creating basic motion, shape tweens. Learners create "Bouncing Ball" animation and also dropping a bouncy ball animation including a "boing" bouncing sound.

Creating movie clips, then using multiple copies and tweening them to create a crowd of different walkers using layers to create perspective

Lesson 3 : Creating Interactive Animations - part 1 :

Creating an animated button to control tweens using basic JavaScript with button events

Lesson 4 : Creating Interactive Animations - part 2 :

Controlling an animation using, mouse and keyboard events.

Lesson 5 : Creating Interactive Animations - part 3 :

Creating an interactive quiz using tweens, button events and sound.

Lesson 6 : Project - creating an advertisement for a website

Students learn how to identify a Target Audience, looking at a range of different adverts over the years and also study fonts and text style.

Students create their own animation with sounds for their product or service for their identified Target Audience - includes Power-point assignment brief and animated examples.