How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4

2.5D Advanced

LET’S APPLY THE same technique, as explained in the previous example, to a more sophisticated character. This character is comprised of several individual objects, all of which were designed and composed with this animation technique in mind. The spacial relationship of each object to each other is important as they will all need to move, skew and scale together, but at varied amounts. The effect is based on the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. There’s nothing overly sophisticated about creating this technique but the result can look very complex on the surface.

 

1 The first step is to make sure all objects have ...