Combining Animation Principles with Winter Spirit: The Flash Snowman

One of my favorite series of lessons to roll out with the advent of winter is the Flash Snowman set - because these lessons not only let you make a fun holiday game, but also teach many crucial Flash basics and animation principles such as gravity, squash, and stretch. With simple movie clips and drag and drop scripts, you can create an animated snowman that you can dress up and customize in any way that you want.

Lessons:

• Flash Animation 14: Gravity, Squash, and Stretch
• Flash Animation 15: Starting and Stopping Sound Effects
• Flash Animation 16: Adding Sound to Buttons
• Flash Animation 17: Controlling Movie Clips With Buttons and ActionScripting
• Flash Animation 18: Controlling Movie Clips II
• Flash Animation 19: Drag and Drop ActionScripting Commands