Holiday Themed Flash Lessons

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Use if statements and variables to create a trivia quiz that calculates the score as you go based on right or wrong answers, and determines "pass" or "fail" based on meeting a minimum value.

With Flash, you can enhance user interactivity by creating objects - such as the ornaments on this "Decorate Your Own Tree" game - that can be moved not only by dragging them with the mouse, but by directing them with keypresses to move them up, down, left, or right.

Take what you've learned in the lessons on wMode transparency and random functions for falling snow, and combine them to add a layer of Flash snow on top of the HTML content of your website without diminishing your content's accessibility.

Combing Flash animation, ActionScripting, and PHP to create an eCard with user-defined messages taken from input fields, and then dynamically generate a URL that allows users to share their custom eCard message via e-mail, IM, or web pages.

With Flash ActionScripting and a little math, you can simulate flecks of falling snow moving in a natural, random drift - whether you want slow, lazy snowfall or a swift and rushing blizzard.

With Flash, you can enhance user interactivity by creating objects - such as the ornaments on this "Decorate Your Own Tree" game - that can be moved not only by dragging them with the mouse, but by directing them with keypresses to move them up, down, left, or right.

Don't feel like getting dolled up for Halloween? Then create a virtual doll to do the trick-or-treating for you. This lesson starts off a two-part look at how to create a Flash version of a paper doll, by walking through creating the various layers of artwork required and arranging that artwork in Flash.

Take the next step to making the Halloween costume doll work by setting up the menu and learning how to hide and unhide the various parts when their menu elements are clicked.

Complete your Halloween costume doll with the finishing touch: one of the most difficult "simple" tasks in Flash, making a movie clip play smoothly backwards so that your menu can be moved to both sides, rather than just one.

Use if statements and variables to create a trivia quiz that calculates the score as you go based on right or wrong answers, and determines "pass" or "fail" based on meeting a minimum value.

Make a fun little jigsaw puzzle by breaking artwork down into pieces, and then using Flash to make them draggable so that they can be rearranged into the correct image.

Create your own animated, flashing Jack o'Lantern for Halloween - without all the mess of a real pumpkin.

Need an animated e-card with a personal touch, but don't have much time? This 26-step Flash lesson can be completed in just a little over thirty minutes, for a simple Valentine's e-card that uses a few new alpha effects prettily enough to please any friend or sweetheart.

Part II in this three-part, 26-step installment.

Part III in this three-part, 26-step installment.

This tutorial offers you a chance to get more familiar with using Flash's drawing tools to set a scene for an animation, and a few little gradient and fill tricks. This part of the lesson will walk you through creating the scene for a Fourth of July exploding fireworks E-card; a future lesson will demonstrate how to animate it.

Now that we’ve set the stage for our E-card, let’s go ahead and animate it. For the first part of that, we’re going to use a new kind of symbol called a Movie Clip.

It's time to learn how to use Flash with classic animation techniques to portray gravity, weight, and squash and stretch. Just in time for the winter holidays, too--with a snowy scene and a bouncing snowball to demonstrate the techniques.

Let's pick up on the last lesson to add a bouncing sound effect to our squash and stretch animation, using Flash audio to bring more life and depth to the animation.

We've learned how to play sounds at a certain time in a Flash animation, but what about in response to certain events? This lesson is a basic start on playing sounds on mouseovers and mouseclicks, using buttons to trigger those sounds.

It's time to take a bit of a leap in your Flash education by learning how to control movie clip timelines from within the main timeline. To do this we're going to use buttons to tell Flash when to play individual movie clip animations.

This lesson continues what we started in Flash Animation 17, by showing how to "rewind" the movie clips to the beginning to remove the elements we placed on the stage without entirely resetting the scene.

The startDrag and stopDrag commands help increase user interactivity with our Flash movies by letting them manipulate our movie clips with the click of a mouse.