Exercises
- Exercise: create an example of a shape tween.
- Exercise: create an example of a motion tween.
- Exercise: Create an animation using text. Vary the timing and sequencing of the animated letters.
Terms and Concepts
- Keyframe
- Blank Keyframe
- Motion Tweening
- Rotating and Scaling objects
- Color Effects
- Fading Shapes in and out (alpha)
- Using a Frame Action to stop an Animation
- Creating a looping animation with the Movie Symbol
- "Test Movie" Command: (Ctrl Enter)
- Animated text
- Break apart (text)
- Modify menu: Timeline: Distribute to Layers.
- Working with the timing and movement
- Get URL action
NOTES:
- You can only Motion Tween one object per layer.
- It is a good idea to convert an object to a symbol (f 8) before you motion tween the object.
- You can nest animations inside of symbol objects
- You cannot shape tween something that has a blue bounding box around it. (ex: symbols, text, groups)