Flash is an animation tool so it is important to know how to animate or move objects and pictures. Flash offers a number of ways to animate an object and make it fly across the stage. You can make an object fade in or out, speed up or slow down, follow a curve or rotate and spin. You can also move it in 3d space or blend colors and distort shapes.
Even though Flash offers amazing new tools to animate with good animation still requires timing, control and pause.
Flash Animation Methods
- Keyframing - frame-by-frame animation, edit each keyframe one by one
- Classic Tween - Flash executed frame motion, spanning between two keyframes, involving symbols, and grouped objects
- Motion Tween - Flash executed frame motion, spanning between two keyframes, also includes a motion path
- Shape Tween - Flash executed frame motion, spanning between two keyframes, involving shapes
- Scripted motion - Flash executed motion, defined by actionscript programming
Lynda.com Tutorials
- Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training
The following tutorials will help you learn how to animate objects sprites and images with Flash
Chapter 8 Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations
Chapter 9 Creating Shape Tweens
Chapter 10 Working with Motion Tweens and the Motion Editor
Week 5 Assignment 1 - Create Keyframe Based Animations
Use these examples to create animations based on editing an object across multiple keyframes.
Timeline
Due date: End of Week 6
The project is complete once you have sent me your .fla Flash editing files and .swf published flash movie files (please try and save your .fla file in the CS5 or older format)
Project 1: A cartoon bomb, fuse, and explosion
Watch the video tutorials below to create your own animated cartoon bomb explosion. Try to be creative with the ending.
Project 2: A bouncing ball
A bouncing ball is a seemingly easy animation project, yet it takes a lot of observation and skill to do it right!!!
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