On your timeline, select the keyframe in frame 1, right-click, and select “copy frame”. Then move to frame 12, right-click, and select “paste frame” (you’ll remember this from Lesson 1 and Lesson 2). The frames in between will fill with grey, with the marker to show that motion remains static between the frames. Now paste the keyframe again on frame 13; this will give a brief pause when the fireworks burst is at its largest, and also make it easier to do the second half of our shape tween.
Flash Animation 4: Animating Your E-card
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide
To create our shape tween, we’ll need to create a new keyframe. I think two seconds would be a good interval over which to complete our cycle; that’s 12 frames per second, 24 frames total. We’ll start the burst small, then expand it, then shrink it down to vanish again, so we’ll need two separate segments. So for right now, we’ll make two new keyframes at the halfway point.
Prev
- Movie Clips
- Editing a Movie Clip
- Setting Up A Shape Tween Inside a Movie Clip
- Finishing Your Shape Tween
- Returning to Your Main Stage, Previewing
- Extending the Length of Your Animation
- Using a Motion Tween to Animate Opacity
- Setting Alpha for a Symbol
- Applying a Motion Tween to animate Opacity
- Conclusion
Explore Animation
Must Reads
About.com Special Features
Holiday Central
What to eat, where to go, fun things to do and how to save money on the perfect gifts. More >
Family Tech Center
Stay connected and entertained with reviews on tips on the latest HDTVs, cellphones and more. More >
©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.
All rights reserved.