Adobe Flash Professional CS5 on Demand

8. Animating with Motion Tweening

What You’ll Do

Understand Motion Tweening

Apply Motion Tween Presets

Create a Motion Tween

Adjust Motion Tween Properties

Edit Motion Tween Properties with the Motion Editor

Add Color Effects and Filters

Work with Property Keyframes

Edit the Path of a Motion Tween

Copy Motion as ActionScript

Introduction

In Flash, it’s not necessary to draw every frame of an animation. You can set the position and attributes of your art in the beginning and ending frames, and Flash will create all of the frames in between. This is called tweening. A motion tween connects two keyframes, each with different effects or characteristics applied to them and then gradually “morphs” one into the other. Tweening allows you to quickly ...