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Lesson 5 - GETTING ANIMATED
Lesson 5 - GETTING ANIMATED
1. Frame by frame
• Moving or modifying of objects one
frame at a time.
• A method that can certainly satisfy
your appetite for total control.
In Flash, you create animation in
three ways:
2. Tweening
• You create starting frames and
ending frames and let Flash figure
out where everything goes in
between the frames.
• Motion Tween and Shape Tween
In Flash, you create animation in
three ways:
3. Timeline Effects
• You choose from a list of prebuilt
animations, adjust a few settings,
and then instantly apply them to
your text, graphics, buttons, or
movie clips.
• Flash automatically creates tweens
for you.
Preparing to Animate:
Span-based selection:
In this method, if you click a frame, it selects the
entire sequence containing that frame, from one
keyframe to the next. Clicking and dragging
moves the entire sequence (between the
keyframes) along the Timeline in either
direction.
Selecting Frames
You can change the style of selection by
choosing Edit➪Preferences (Windows), and
then marking or unmarking the Span Based
Selection check box in the Timeline Options
section.