Chapter 8: Don’t Just Sit There — Animate!
In This Chapter
Creating and editing animations
Adjusting your playback
Working with tweening
Animating with masks
Exporting animations for the web
Animations, used in moderation, can liven up a page. You can make simple animations to create effects of light and movement — or go to the max with dancing babies. The subtle approach probably is better because most folks are more intrigued by interesting content than by distracting animations. Still, you find animations being used every day, especially in rotating banner ads.
The animations you produce in Fireworks aren’t quite the same as those in Flash. Fireworks animations typically are smaller and are saved in the GIF format, which doesn’t require a plug-in to view. You create them by using the States panel, which we cover in detail in Chapter 7 of this minibook.
In this chapter, you use the States panel to create multiple versions of your artwork that play one after another to create an ...
