Flash Professional CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

11. Animation with Motion Tweening

In This Chapter

Creating a Bouncing Ball with Motion Tweening

Working with Motion-Tween Paths

Orienting Tween Targets to Curves

Swapping Tween Elements

Motion Editor Basics

Adding More Motion

Animating Other Property Changes

Modifying Tween Spans

Copying Frames and Properties

In a classic tween, you create animation by setting up a series of keyframes. Each of those keyframes contains a separate instance of the symbol you want to animate. You manipulate each symbol individually to change its properties. Flash calculates any differences in the symbols’ properties at each keyframe (position, size, rotation, and so on) and uses that information to create a series of images in which the symbol changes incrementally. ...