Adding Animation

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Contents 1 Topic Assignments 1.1 Animate Your Game Scenes 1.2 Update the Wiki: 2 Related Links and Tutorials 3 Search the Web for more information 4 Students Contributions

Topic summary: Introduction to the Flash Animation. How to make your characters move with the timeline and creating simple frame-by-frame and motion tweening animations.

Topic Assignments

Animate Your Game Scenes

Learn how the Flash symbols and the Flash Library can help you create animations:

• Movieclip Symbol
• Graphic Symbol
• The Flash Library tutorial

Learn the basics of keyframes and how to do Frame by Frame Animation in Flash.

Watch this video clip to learn how to make movement animation with Motion Tweening:

You can also Read about making your game objects move by adding Motion Tweening: Motion Tweening & Easing.

Animate the game scenes you created in the Drawing in Flash topic. Add animation to your characters, make them move on the screen (try making them move smoothly.)

• Continue drawing in Flash more scenes based on your game prototype.

Update the Wiki:

• Upload the assets (.SWF & .FLA) you create to your wiki project page.

Related Links and Tutorials

Here are optional tutorials and activities you can do to learn more Flash Animation:

• Short Shape Tween in Flash tutorial
• Step by Step Shape Tweening
• Step by Step Motion Tweening
• Creating a Simple Flash 8 Animation

MyHLife.org Custom Tutorial

• Changing Animation Speed of a Movie Clip in Bullseye

MyHLife.org Flash Tutorial List

• Browse the MyHLife.org Flash Tutorials list for more tutorials, informations and links!

Search the Web for more information

Here are some search results on Flash Animation techniques:

• Google results for "flash & motion & tweening & tutorial".
• YouTube results for "flash & motion & tweening & tutorial" .
• Ask.com results for "flash & animation & tutorial".

Students Contributions