Flash Animation

Macromedia Flash animation is today an integral part of every Multimedia presentation. Macromedia Flash animation is the best way to deliver multimedia content. Flash animation has diverse applications for Internet & non-web media.

Our designers at Webshree have developed advanced flash skills. We make extensive use of flash scripting & have also developed database driven solutions using flash animation. We have designed ecommerce-shopping carts in flash animation. Please get us touch with us today for flash animation based shopping carts.

We also develop flash templates for our outsourcing partner companies. After selecting these flash web templates, we then provide complete flash animation content & deliver the flash websites.

Basics of Flash Animation

While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to create simple animation sequences. Webshree provides a detailed explanation for flash animation. In this article you'll learn how to create Simple Flash Animations. In Flash, animation can be done in four basic ways:

• Motion Tween

• Shape Tween

• Frame-by-Frame Animation

• Guided Motion Tween

A. Creating Motion Tween in Flash

• Draw a vector using any of the drawing tools in Flash, say a small circle and convert it into a symbol (F8) by selecting the Graphic option and name the symbol say 'ball'.

• Click the 20th frame in the Timeline and insert a frame (F5).

• Now right-click the 20th frame in the Timeline and select Create Motion Tween (or Motion option from the Tween panel of the Properties inspector) and insert a Key Frame (F6).

• Select the 10th frame and insert a Key frame (F6) and move the ball to a different position say, above the current position to create a motion sequence (automatically tweened by Flash).

• Save your work and test the Movie (Ctrl + Enter). That's it you have created simple animation using Motion Tween.

B. Creating Shape Tween in Flash

• You can create Shape Tweened flash animations using Shape option from the Tween panel of the Properties inspector. Draw a vector using any of the drawing tools in Flash, say a small circle and remove its border.

• Click the 10th frame in the Timeline and insert a Key Frame (F6). Now draw another shape say a diamond using the rectangle tool without a border.

• Now right-click on any frame in between these two Key Frames and select Shape option from the Tween panel of the Properties inspector.

• Save your work and test the Movie (Ctrl + Enter). That's it you have learnt how to create Shape Tween in Flash.

C. Frame-by-Frame Flash Animation

• Create a vector/plain text using any of the drawing tools in Flash, say a text with 'Animation' typed as shown in the example and break it using Break Apart (Ctrl + B) to separate the alphabets.

• In Frame-by-Frame flash animation we create the object for each frame so as to produce an animation sequence.

• Insert Keyframe (F6) and move the alphabets so as to produce a flash animation sequence.

• Repeat the above step as far as desired to create Frame-by-Frame flash animation.

• Save your work and test the Movie (Ctrl + Enter). That's it you have created an animation using Frame-by-Frame animation.

D. Creating a Guided Motion Tween in Flash

• Create a vector/plain text using any of the drawing tools in Flash, say a text with 'Flash' typed and break it using Break Apart (Ctrl + B) as done in the previous example and put each alphabet in different layers and name them accordingly.

• Insert a guide layer by right-clicking the topmost layer and select 'Add Guide Layer' (Insert-->Timeline-->Motion Guide), draw any path using the pencil tool in the guide layer.

• Now create Motion tween by selecting the object in the 1st frame and snapping its registration point to one end of the path.

• Snap the object in the last frame to the other end of the path in the guide layer.

• Repeat the same for all the objects (alphabets) by snapping their registration points to the path in the guide layer.