Animate/Flash: Create Basic Motion Tween

Learn how to use Motion Tween:

Steps to follow:

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.
  
  
• Title Layer 1, "Ball"(click on layer title to change name)
• Select the first frame. Draw your image on the stage; you can either choose Rectangular tool or Oval tool from the tool box and draw your desired shape.
• Select your object on the stage and press F8 to convert this image to a Symbol (or right click "Convert to Symbol"). Convert to Symbol window will pop-up.
  Name your Symbol what ever you like.
  Select Graphic behavior and press OK.
• Your Symbol is in frame1 of Ball layer. Select frame 20 and press F5 to insert a new Frame (or right click "Frame")
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19, then right click select "Motion Tween". Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below. 
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, move your Symbol to any other position other than the present one. A key frame will magically appear on the timeline to indicate a change in movement.
  
  
• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween. 

Adobe Animate/Flash Intro

We are going to begin to learn how to draw and animate in Adobe Animate. Animate is a fun program that makes animation easy... well it takes a bit of time to learn, but there are many things it can do. It can help you create digital animations, help you design games, and help generate cool websites. I say it can help, because you are the designer and creator, you have to make the choices to create your piece.





We are going to learn about the following:

• The stage
• Timeline
• Properties
• Tool bar
• Library
• Document set-up
• Scale
• Colour- Tone/alpha
• Frame by frame animation
• Onion Skins