Flash Professional CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

8. Frame-by-Frame Animations

In This Chapter

Choosing Frame Views

Creating Keyframes

Creating In-between Frames

Selecting Frames in Keyframe Spans

Manipulating Frames in a Layer

Removing Frames

Making a Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation

Previewing the Action

Varying Frame-by-Frame Rate

Using Onion Skinning

Editing Multiple Keyframes

Frame-by-frame animation was the standard technique prior to computer animation. This hand-drawn method simulates motion using a sequence of still images that show progressive stages of a movement.

Traditional animators, such as those who worked for Walt Disney Studios, drew thousands of images, each slightly different from the next, to reflect every movement in the cartoon. Animating those drawings meant photographing ...