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CHAPTER 13
Creating Graphics: Create a
Timeline Animation
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 provide
powerful tools for creating animation. Most simple animation in Flash is
done using a process known as tweening. Tweening is short for “in
between” and refers to filling in the frames between two keyframes so that a
graphic displayed in the first keyframe changes into the graphic displayed
in the second keyframe.
There are two types of tweening that you can create in Flash—a motion
tween and a shape tween. The main difference between motion tweening
and shape tweening is that motion tweening operates on grouped objects
or symbols, and shape tweening is used with objects that are not symbols
and are ungrouped.
You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the
Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/
fl_documentation.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Create a motion tween . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Create a shape tween . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Copy and paste keyframes in an animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Change the speed of the animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158