How Flash can help in your animating

endeavours?

Designers are actually in love with Flash owing to many reasons. It allows users to add

elements of interactivity and motions to almost anything. Let us analyse the role Flash can

play in adding animation to the symbols through best practices. The below tips can really be

helpful.

FPS

FPS in Flash older versions was 12 and now it has reached 24. This is perhaps because Flash

is now a highly preferred mode for playing videos on internet. The player has now improved

greatly and huge data volumes can be rendered without affecting quality.

Tweening

Tweening (shortened term for betweening) is the procedure of creating interim frames in the

middle of 2 key frames. The animations frame rate is determined by the number of frames

that go in between 2 key frames. Faster movement means lesser tween frames.

Two types of tweening are there- Shape tweening and Motion tweening. In the former, you

start with one shape and transform it to another. If both the shapes are not that complex, you

can do the process with ease. With Motion tweening, you can bring After Effects to the

objects. In latest versions of Flash, you can apply motion not just on timeline but also on a

selected symbol.

Easing

Picture this: You are animating a ball falling on the ground. The ball will bounce at an even

pace and this is what the default setting is done for. You don’t want this to happen because it

is not like so in the real life. When a ball falls on ground, it initially bounces and the speed

and distance travelled by the bounce decreases.

With easing, this issue can be eliminated. You can accelerate and decelerate as you wish; you

don’t even have to tweak the positions for every frame manually.

Swift & stress-free pseudo-3D animation

Using Flash 3D animation is also feasible. There is a new 3D rotation tool that you see with

motion editor. It helps you to rotate objects in three dimensions. After selecting the tool,

select the concerned object and simultaneously click and drag one among the three lines that

you will see. The three colour lines represent 3 axis. Red is for X, green is for Y and blue is

for Z axis. You can manipulate these to get the desired 3D effects.

If the above Flash animations tips are used effectively, great results are assured. For

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