10. Animation with Shape Tweening

Shape tweening in Adobe Flash Professional CS6 works much like classic tweening. You set up a keyframe span (the graphic content of the beginning and ending keyframes must be different in some way), then you define the keyframe span as a shape tween. Flash redraws the graphics for each in-between frame, making the incremental changes that transform the first shape into the final one. Shape tweens can animate changes that redefine the shape of a graphic element as well as its size, color, location, and so on.

Flash can shape-tween more ...

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