Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P5:Now you can easily create web-ready images and animations within the familiar Adobe environment. With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has added Flash to its suite of creative products, thus solidifying its position as the world's leading developer of graphic and visual communications tools. The Against The Clock Portfolio Series Flash title ensures that you'll learn everything you need to complete any job that requires Flash skills | This project incorporates the following skills Rocket Ship Artwork Your client is the owner and founder of a delivery service named Rocket Overnight Delivery which specializes in quick overnight package handling between local and regional businesses. The company is growing rapidly and they plan to further expand their revenues by using an email marketing campaign connected to special Web site offers. Defining a movie file with settings that are appropriate for the job you re building Importing a scanned image provided by the creative director Using Flash drawing tools to develop a digital version of the rough sketch Adding depth to the line-art rocket ship using various shading and blending techniques Placing a background image that simulates deep space so the client can see the artwork in position as it might be on a Web banner poster or postcard VI Were hiring your agency to develop our site and corresponding mailers. The first thing we need is the primary graphic the rocket ship that will be used for banners mailers and eventually animated on the site. We want the main rocket artwork to reflect a VI C Ü E E o O E E C .2 retro design looking like something from a 1950s science fiction movie the art should not be overly sophisticated or perfectly rendered. We want to develop a visual look and feel that will help local businesses immediately recognize us so we re going to use this basic rocket artwork as a visual branding asset. ft- o o Sa Q 5 3 vi O o s o Since Flash produces vector artwork we can use the artwork for just about anything once it s done. I want the finished product to be 1024 pixels wide by 400 pixels high the 1024 width constraint is to make sure it works for a Web site header which is the first thing I want to do with it . We ve already gotten approval for the sketch. The first thing to do is import that sketch to use as a guide. Start by tracing the line art using a bright color so I can see how it s coming before you add color. Once you finish
