Now let’s get to the guts of animating :). To make the tutorial more clear we are going to be animating something simple. Let’s animate a simple hand punching. You can download the example file bellow. We start with a clinched fist and a bent elbow. The next step is a hand swinging back. So […]
Ok… Keeping things organized in Flash is essential because if you are making a complicated animation you need to keep things easy to maintain. You can download the example file bellow. This is a simple example. It doesn’t contain a lot of frames or animation but to illustrate my point it should be enough. That’s […]
Let’s make a button :). Up to his point all our animations just started all by themselves and had no option to replay if we scripted them to stop. So let’s make a something that will tell Flash when to start the animation and when to stop with ActionScript. You can download the example file […]
Creating a morphing shape in flash is fairly easy if you already know everything from my previous post. Morph from square to cyrcle Place a new shape on the stage (do not convert it in to a symbol). Now create a new empty key frame in frame 48 (2 senconds) by pressing f7. Place a […]
Symbols Working with symbols is essential in Flash. They keep file size down, keep you organized and allow you to manipulate their size, motion and shape. They also enable Flash to be interactive. There are 3 types of Symbols: Graphic – they are used for static images. You can also animate them and use them […]
Recently I have gotten in to animation. I’ve known how to use Adobe Flash basics since before Adobe bought it from Macromedia, but I never got around to animating anything substantial. Well that’s changing. Recently I’ve been in contact with some app developers and they asked me to create a demo animation for them. I’ll […]