Posts Tagged ‘Flash CS3’
Create Motion Tween Animation in Flash CS3
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Today we learn how to Create Motion Tween Animation in Flash CS3. Here is the final
result!
The Animation Tween
If your animation follows some simple guidelines, you can save yourself lots of work (and reduce your file size, too) by using Flash to calculate the in-between frames for you automatically. You create just the first and last keyframes, and Flash figures out what should go in between. In animation technobabble, that’s called tweening — a quick, fun way to create great animations.
You can do a lot with Flash’s tweening capabilities, including:
- Motion tweening: This is definitely the most common type of tweening. With simple motion tweening, you can move your objects in a straight line from here to there. You can use motion tweening also to animate an object along any path that you create, even one with lots of curves.
- Shape tweening: This type of tweening gradually changes any shape to another shape. You create the first and last shapes. These days, kids call it morphing. The results may be quite unpredictable and require a lot of computer processing but are usually interesting. You can add shape hints to try to tell Flash exactly how you want your shape to morph.
And with both motion tweening and shape tweening, you can:
- Change an object’s size: For example, if you make an object smaller as you move it, the object often appears to be moving away from the viewer.
- Rotate an object: You specify the amount of the rotation. Flash combines the motion or shape tweening with the rotation so that you get both effects at one time.
- Change color or transparency or both: Flash creates a gradual change in color based on your starting and ending colors.
Note: Information from Flash CS3 for Dummies ebook. Let’s start the tutorial!
[1] Open Flash and create a new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)
Learn Flash with a simple example!
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Today we learn together how to create a simple effect in Flash. You can buy or download (trial version) the software from here. Here is the final result!
Who Framed the Animation?
The secret of animation in Flash, as in the movies, is that nothing ever really moves. A Flash movie creates the illusion of movement by quickly displaying a sequence of still images. Each still image is slightly different. Your brain fills in the gaps to give you the impression of movement.
One of the great things about Flash is that you can easily create complicated, spectacular extravaganzas of animation. And Flash stores lots of information in the super-compact vector format. Because the files can be small, they can be transmitted over the Web quickly. That’s good for your Web site viewers.
