Macromedia® Flash™ 8 on Demand

Chapter 7. Creating Frame-By-Frame Animation

What You’ll Do

• Understand Frame-By-Frame Animation

• Create Keyframes

• Convert Frames to Keyframes

• Use Frame Based Versus Span Based Selection

• Clear Keyframes Versus Remove Frames

• Edit Keyframes

• Create a Simple Frame-By-Frame Animation

• Play an Animation

• Use Onion Skinning

• Modify Onion Skin Markers

• Edit Multiple Frames

Introduction

Flash provides several methods for creating animation. In addition to shape and motion tweening, you can create frame-by-frame animations. The frame-by-frame method is derived from the traditional animation process whereby the content is redrawn on each frame with slight differences from the last frame. When these frames are played in sequence there is an illusion of movement. In Flash you ...