Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

5. Articulated Motion and Morphing

Lesson Overview

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

• Animate armatures with multiple linked movie clips

• Constrain the joints

• Animate armatures with shapes

• Morph organic shapes with shape tweens

• Simulate physics with the spring feature

• Use shape hints to refine shape tweens

This lesson will take approximately two and a half 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 ...