Adobe Flash- Basic Animation

In this tutorial, I’m going to teach one of the basic frame by frame animation using adobe flash

• ·         Open Adobe flash and select action script 2.0
• ·         Activate onion skin by clicking its icon
• ·         Select your text tool or simply press (T) for shortcut.
• ·         Select the stage
• ·         Write your name on it or any name you prefer.
• ·         Select all the letters (name) that you created
• ·         Click modify which is found in your menu bar
• ·         Select break apart twice or CTRL+B for shortcut.

The reason why we break apart the name that we entered in the stage is for us to be able to move or manipulate the letters.

• ·         Select the eraser tool (E) then we begin using our timeline in making our animation.
• ·         Right click on our 2^nd playhead and select insert keyframe or (F6)
• You should be able to have the same name in the same location found in the stage.
• ·         Erase part of the letter

Like this:

• ·         Right click on our 3^rd playhead and select insert keyframe or (F6)
• ·         Erase part of the letter
• ·         Do the same for the next playhead from 4^th until 10^th playhead keyframe the first letter in your name should be totally erased with the eraser tool that we used.
• ·         As you notice I used 10 playhead with 10 key frames to erase one whole letter.

Like this:

• ·        From your 11^th  playhead to your 20^th you should do the same erase the next letter little by little until it reach to the 20th playhead for the letter to be totally erased.
• ·         Finish the rest of the remaining letters following the same steps you did with the previous letters
• ·         Evaluate your progress with (CTRL+Enter)