Adobe Flash CS4 - Animation

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Lesson 1: Simple animations
 What is animation ?
A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures in frames
Lesson objectives:
 To know what is animation?
 To learn how to Create frame-by-frame animation.
 Create glowing animated text.
 How to test movie.

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How to create frame by frame animation ?
1- Open flash
2- In the first frame, select the oval tool and draw a circle
3- Go to the second frame, right click and insert a key frame.
4- Move the circle to the right.
5- Go to the third frame and insert a key frame, then move the circle to the right again.
6- Keep doing these two steps until frame 10 or more ( as you like ), then press Ctrl + Enter
to test the movie

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How to create a glowing text
1- Open Flash.
2- Change the name of the layer to your name
3- Select the text tool and write your name.
4- Add a new layer and drag it under the first layer. Name it background.

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5- Select the rectangle tool and draw a black rectangle.
6- Go back to the text layer. Choose the selection tool and select your name.
7- From property, choose add filter and choose glow

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8- Change the glow properties as following as shown in the picture
9- Select the frame 10 of both layers, right click and insert key frame.
10- Go back to the glow properties and change blur X to 80

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11- Insert another key frame in frame 20 of both layers
12- Again, Go back to the glow properties and change blur X to 26
13- Go to the text layer, select any frame between 1 and 10, right click and choose ( create
classic tween), then select any frame between 10 and 20 and do the same thing , choose
classic tween.
14- Press ctrl + Enter to play the movie.