Adobe Flash CS4 Professional on Demand

7. Creating Frame-by-Frame Animation

What You’ll Do

Understand Frame-by-Frame Animation

Create Keyframes

Convert Frames to Keyframes

Use Frame-Based Versus Span-Based Selection

Clear Keyframes Versus Removing Frames

Edit Keyframes

Create a Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation

Play an Animation

Use Onion Skinning

Modify Onion Skin Markers

Edit Multiple Frames

Introduction

Flash provides several methods for creating animation. In addition to shape and motion tweening, you can create frame-by-frame animations. The frame-by-frame method is derived from the traditional animation process whereby the content is redrawn on each frame with slight differences from the last frame. When these frames are played in sequence, there is ...