flash workshop

I had a Flash workshop today. I learnt about tweens. There genius. All you do is put a key frame on one image and a key frame on another and create a movement or change of some sort. Then simply add either a motion or shape tween and it instantly fills in all the empty frames inbetween the images. It really speeds up making an animation. Another useful technique to make creating an animation quicker was to add movement to an individual shape and make it last a certain amount of frames by using key frames then save that shape into your library. You can then copy and paste as many of that animated shape as you want onto he timeline and it will have saved the movement of the original shape as well. I will try and animate some of my own images using Flash so I can begin to feel a little more comfortable with the interface and controls.

Below are some of the shapes I animated. The first shows a square that has been rotated on the bottom left hand corner every 6 frames. The second was done by creating a path for the shape to follow and positioning the shape so it goes round smoothly. The last video shows how by just using a shape tween you can morph a circle into a square. All of these simple animations were done using key frames to control the movement and shape of the object I animated.