Animated Flash Thumbnail Gallery II

The second half of the animated Flash thumbnail gallery tutorial shows you how to create the actual expanded image overlay, using movie clips to animate the image unfolding and then folding away again. You can customize this with your own animation, rather than using the one that I've chosen for mine. This lesson also touches on a few other basics from early ActionScripting lessons, and will make a good review for anyone looking to brush up their basic scripting skills. Try playing with my version below to see how it works:

The fun thing about this is that you aren't restricted to images only; you can use it to display video, or any kind of multimedia content.