Flash Animation 14: Gravity, Squash, and Stretch

So, of course, if I'm going to animate a bouncing snowball, first I need to create the snowball itself. I've just drawn a simple circle, with a pale blue outline and a gradient fill going from soft blue to a white highlight. I've used the Fill Transform tool to shift the center of the gradient a bit, to place the highlight a bit higher to show a light source coming from above.

Because I'm showing the snowball bouncing in from off-screen, I've placed the initial instance of it outside of my visible stage area.