Flash animation
For beginners
Lesson objectives
• To understand how to animate a ball
• To understand how to loop animations
• To learn how to use animation including saving it and
then using it ,in a different program
• To learn to create a shape tween moving a circle shape
into a square
• To learn how to use animation including saving it and
then using it ,in a different program
• To learn to create a SPINNING PIECE OF TEXT
• To learn to create a shiny text effect
• To learn how to use animation including saving it and
then using it ,in a different program
How to create a bouncing ball!
• Open up flash
• Select your slide area
• Select the circle shape and draw it on your slide
area at the top
• Select keyframe 30
• Press f6
• Highlight all cells 1-30-right click and select create
motion tween
• Select the ball and move it to bottom of screen
• Then using the play button-play your animation!
How to loop your animation
1.Select control drop down
2.Select loop playback
3.Then when you run your animation it will keep
running until you stop it!
How to use your animation!
• Select file drop down
• Select export movie
• Make sure that you choose the save file as type
arrow and select animated gif
• Name it bouncing ball
• Save it in you’re my pictures
• Open your live music event presentation
• Select insert-movie from file-locate your
bouncing ball-then select ok
• To run animation –select run ppt in Powerpoint
Bouncing ball animation
MAKING TEXT SPIN
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OPEN UP FLASH STAGE
USE CAPITAL A IN TOOLBAR TO SELECT TEXT
TYPE OUT THE WORD SPIN
CONVERT TEXT INTO A MOVIE SYMBOL
HIGHLIGHT TEXT THEN PRESS F8
DELETE TEXT ON STAGE
DRAG NEW MOVIE SYMBOL INTO EMPTY STAGE
GO TO KEYFRAME 10
PRESS F6
SELECT YOUR SYMBOL
SELECT MODIFY FROM MENU
SELECT ROTATE 90 DEGREES
RIGHT CLICK IN BETWEEN KEYFRAMES AT NUMBER 5 THEN SELECT CREATE
MOTION TWEEN
THEN REPEAT PROCESS 5 TIMES
HOW TO USE YOUR SPINNING TEXT
• MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXPORT YOUR
ANIMATION AS A MOVIE
• SAVE AS AN ANIMATED GIF
• GO TO POWERPOINT AND INSERT MOVIE
FROM FILE
• SELECT THE ANIMATION YOU HAVE CREATED
TO BE INSERTED
• RUN POWERPOINT TO SEE ANIMATION
Shape tweening
Now we are going to morph from one shape to
another shape
We are going to do this by using something
called a shape tween
SHAPE TWEENING
Open up a new flash stage
Set the background colour
Set the frames per second rate
On the left hand side select the shape tool- draw a circle on you stage
Select colour of your circle
Once drawn circle onto stage –go to key frame 30-press f6 button to insert key frame
In key frame 30 delete the shape that is there and instead using the rectangle draw tool draw
out a rectangle
Select a colour for the rectangle-make it different to the original circle
Choose any keyframe between 1 and 30 ideally 15-go to properties tab
Select shape tween
Shape tweening
Text tweening
Now we are going to create an animation from text to
a shape
This is how
1.Write text on stage in key frame 1
2.Select all text by selecting control and a
This is needed to break apart text and needs to be done twice
3.Go to key frame 30-press f6 button to create a key frame
4.Delete the text on the page and draw a shape ,select background colour etc
5.Select key frame 1-then go to properties-then select shape tween
6.Then run animation created.
7.Export animation as animated gif so you can insert in your live music event
powerpoint