Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

Chapter 5. Articulated Motion and Morphing

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

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Animate armatures with multiple linked movie clips

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Constrain the joints

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Animate armatures with shapes

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Morph organic shapes with shape tweens

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Use shape hints to refine shape tweens

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This lesson will take approximately two hours to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard drive and copy the Lesson05 folder onto it.

You can easily create complex motion with articulations—joints ...