Macromedia® Flash™ 8 on Demand

Chapter 8. Animating with Motion Tweening

What You’ll Do

• Understand Motion Tweening

• Create a Motion Tween

• Adjust Motion Tween Properties

• Work with Motion Tweening

• Understand Frame and Instance Properties

• Change the Length of a Tween

• Add and Remove Keyframes to a Motion Tween

• Change the Frame Rate

• Reverse Frames

• Animate Scale and Rotation Changes

• Add Color Effects to a Tween

• Create a Motion Guide Layer

• Animate Along a Motion Guide

• Orient Objects to a Motion Path

• Customize Motion Ease In and Out

Introduction

In Flash, it’s not necessary to draw every frame of an animation. You can set the position and attributes of your art in the beginning and ending frames, and Flash will create all of the frames in between. This is called tweening. A motion tween connects two ...