Visual QuickStart Guide: Flash Professional CS5 for Windows and Macintosh

12. More-Complex Animation Tasks

In This Chapter

Manipulating Frames in Multiple Layers

Animating on Multiple Layers

Reversing Animation

Saving Animations As Symbols

Using Animated Graphic Symbols

Using Movie-Clip Symbols

Using Easing

Re-creating Classic and Motion Tweens

Practice Session

You’ve learned to manipulate shapes and symbols, animating them one at a time, in a single layer, but Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is capable of handling much more complicated animation tasks. To create complex animated movies, you’ll need to work with multiple shapes or symbols and multiple layers. You may even want to use multiple scenes to organize long animations. In this chapter, you learn to work with multiple layers in the Timeline, stack animations on ...