Lesson 2: Pt. 1
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Basic Animation
Flash: Interactive Web Animation
by Ken Kimura

The following is an outline of what is covered in this Lesson.

  1. Working with the timeline
    • The playhead
  2. Managing Layers
    • One animation per layer
    • Creating new Layers
    • Naming layers
    • Rearranging layers
  3. Elements of the Timeline
    • Adding frames (F5)
    • Adding Keyframes (F6)
    • Deleting both frames and keyframes
    • Selecting multiple frames
Exercise Assignment
  1. Open the file that you created in the first lesson (“exercise_1.fla”)
  2. Make sure that your car is a grouped object on it’s own layer. Name this layer “car.”
  3. On a layer below the car layer draw a backgroung that includes a road for the car to drive across.
  4. Using 2 keyframes and a motion tween, animate the car driving from off the stage, across the stage, to off the stage again.
  5. If you have enough time, experiment with creating and animating other objects in your movie.
Lesson 2: Pt. 1
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