Jen deHaan

Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 offer several ways to include animation and special effects in your document. For example, you can create tweened animations using the Timeline and Flash workspace, automated Timeline effects (by making selections in a dialog box), or ActionScript code. To create tweened animations, you create starting and ending frames and let Flash create the animation for the frames in between. Flash varies the object's size, rotation, color, or other attributes between the starting and ending keyframes to create the appearance of movement. You can also create animation by changing the contents of successive frames in the Timeline. You can make an object move across the Stage, increase or decrease its size, change its color or shape, rotate it, and even fade in or out. Changes can occur independently of, or in concert with, other changes. For... (more)

Flash Animation Learning Guide (Part II)

By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another shape over time. Flash can also tween the location, size, color, and opacity of shapes. Tweening one shape at a time usually yields the best results. If you tween multiple shapes at one time, and want them to morph together, all the shapes must be on the same layer. Otherwise, for some effects, you should shape tween each shape on separate layers if you do not want them to affect each other. Each rectangle‹the curtain effect in the background and the rectangle ... (more)