Lesson Objectives
• To understand how to create animation
with motion tweens.
• To understand how to create symbols
and why these are important.
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Last lesson…
• You made frame by frame animations
• Do you think this was an easy way of
making an animation?
• Did it take a long time to make a small
animation?
• How could you make it easier
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Motion Tweens
Motion tweens are automatic animations
which make objects follow a certain path
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How do we do it?
• import an image, or
draw a picture
• Make sure all of it is
selected
• Right click at select
Create Motion
Tween
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• If a box appears asking you to convert
it to a symbol, click ok.
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• Click the picture and drag it to where
you want it to go. It will create a path
behind it
• The stick man will now follow this path
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• You can edit the path by clicking and
dragging it.
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• If you want the animation to be longer
or shorter drag the end of your timeline
to make it bigger or smaller
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Trouble shooting
• This technique only works if the key
frame does not have any existing
frames in front of it.
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Task 1:
• Add to your stick man animation using
motion tweens
• Try and use motion tweens and frame by
frame animation together in your work.
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