Foundation Fireworks CS4

7.3. Morphing an animation

The purpose of this tutorial is to show how to create an animation without actually managing any states. We'll have Fireworks create our individual state objects and use the Distribute to States command to automatically create the animation. Then, we'll issue some extra commands to duplicate multiple states and reverse the order of a range of states.

7.3.1. Preparing the document

To begin, create a new document with dimensions of 300×200 px with a white canvas color (see Figure 7-10).

Figure 7-10. Creating a new document

7.3.2. Making some shapes

Now that you have your canvas set up, it's time to add some shapes. ...