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shape tweens, cartoon bouncing ball, onion skin outlines
Leaving the onion skin outlines on, we'll now change the tween so that the bee follows a curved path to land on the sheep instead. To get a symbol to tween along a specified path instead of in a straight line from one point to the other, you need to add a motion guide layer with the path in it. This is done by selecting the motion-tween layer (ie, make sure the "bee" layer is highlighted) and clicking the "add motion guide" button right below the frames. That causes a layer to be added above the layer with the motion tween in it, and that is where you'll draw the path. The easiest tool for drawing a path is the pencil, with the "smooth" option on (an option at the bottom of the tools panel when the pencil is selected).
Now we need to create the movement. How? By using the Timeline, which is situated above the scene.
1 Open a new flash document.
3.1 To avoid having to prolong the duration of the first keyframe in the floor layer each time you are moving your ball around, insert a Frame in frame 80 of the floor layer. Do like you did before: right-click on the frame and select Insert Frame.
You have just inserted a new keyframe in the mouth layer. This is necessary for any kind of animation in Flash, because a keyframe makes change possible. Whenever you want to animate something, be it movement, color or shape change, you must use a keyframe.
1 Open a new Flash document. Draw something with at least three colors, and that is assymetrical (i.e. don't draw a single-color circle or rectangle). Select your drawing (all of it, don't leave any part unselected!) with the Selection Tool (V) and convert it to a Movie Clip symbol by pressing F8 (or choosing Modify > Convert to Symbol).
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In this tutorial you will learn you to use flash's tweening techniques to create smooth animation. There are two types of tweens, shape and motion tweening.
In this tutorial you will learn the VERY basics, so if you have never used flash before you are in the right place! I will show you basic navigation around the interface, how to add / remove frames and create a basic tweens.
Open up a new Flash AS2 document, and rename the first layer to 'stuff' and set the framerate to 31. Select the circle shape tool, and set the border colour to none. Draw a circle on the stage and select it.
Step 5: We want to make certain that this animation does not interfere with the previous animated frames. To do that we need to copy our last keyframe of the small blue circle to a new frame, directly afterwards. Do this by clicking on frame 12 to select it; then right-click and select "Copy Frames". Now click on frame 13 (which should be the very next frame) and right click, before selecting "Paste Frames". This should place a copy of the keyframe on frame 12 on frame 13. If you have done this successfully, your timeline should have changed from my example above, to the example below.
Motion tweening
How often do you want to move an object by some predefined amount over a certain period of time? Like "move to this point in 2 seconds". This sort of movement over a timescale is the cornerstone of animation and scripting. Unfortunately to implement this in code is quite tedious. You first need to work out how fast you should be moving, and then keep track of how long you have actually moved. It's not hard, but it does require writing a lot of boring code.
Series: SWF Quicker 3.0 Estimated Time of Completion: 45 minutes Description: In this course, you'll mainly learn how to create image tween animations, however, the functions like creating motion tween animations, adding texts and creating fade in/out effects are also involved.
Let's first have a look at the basics of motion tweening. In Part 1 of the tutorial we will create a simple animation that shows a red circle moving from left to right.
5. With keyframe 30 selected draw a circle on the stage, this will represents the final state of our morphing. (Fig5) Fig5 We now have a star on frame 1 and a circle on frame 30 that are both linked with a shape tweening (Fig6) Fig6 If you test your movie you should end up with an animation like the one shown below :
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Motion tweening is much more advanced than shape tweening, and has a lot more rules associated with it. However, these are useful, as there is much more you can do with one of these tweens.
_root.loaded_text = Math.round(total_percent); startpoint = bar._x _root.text._x = startpoint + ((_root.bar._currentframe)*(2.5));
Tweening is the process of creating a smooth animation from just two key frames. Of course, that's an incomplete description of tweening, but yes, I think it's good enough for the purpose of this tutorial. :-) There are two kinds of tweens in Flash: 1. Motion Tween 2. Shape Tween In this tutorial, we are going to talk about motion tweens. Below you can see an example of a motion tween in action.
In photography, a motion blur is created when the subject moves too fast for the speed of the film to capture. The result is a streak trailing the subject. In animation, we can create the illusion of speed by adding motion blur to an image. In this tutorial, we'll use the Blur filter and motion tweening in Flash 8 to create the illusion.
If you've been using Flash for a while, you're probably very familiar with animating objects using Timeline tweening and may want to skip past the next paragraph. However, if you're a new user, you might need a little information about tweening and frame rates before starting the tutorial.
Create a new empty Flash movie, use the Oval Tool to draw a circle on the stage. Select the circle using the Selection Tool (double click to select the circle and its outline) and press F8 to convert the circle shape to a symbol. To be able to motion tween objects in Flash, an object has to be converted to a symbol. For regular motion tweens we can convert our object into a Movie Clip symbol or a Graphic symbol. Select Movie Clip for this tutorial as it provides the option to use the Flash filters introduced in Flash 8. The Name that you give to your symbol does not really matter here, you can call this circle.
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Tip: You can also choose the snap option on the property inspector but only when you are on the first frame of the tween. Then move to the end frame of your animation (still on the content layer) and snap your object to the end of the path.
Note: In this example the word web animates independently to the opening animation. Click the play button and watch the word web. It animates irrespective of what the word wasp does. This is little concept enables you to do so much. It means that one object - such as an animated word (or group of objects) react in ways which is not dependant on what other objects are doing. This gives you tremendous flexibility and fluidity when building your Flash Movies.
