Flash Explained

With this simple and straightforward tutorial, you will learn one very handy animation technique: how to use a motion guide to make an object follow a certain path. I’ll show you:

How to create a motion guide (inside a guide layer),
How to make a movieclip follow the motion guide you made,
How to make the guided animation [...]

In this easy lesson, you will see how to animate effects in Flash. You’ll learn how to animate a filter and create a glowing effect and more along the way.
Take a peek at what you are going to learn to create below:

After learning how to make a motion tween in Flash CS3, it’s time to see how a shape tween is made.You will see and learn:

How to animate a drawn line,
How to animate a shape and morph it into something different,
You will also learn some really simple drawing and shape manipulation techniques along the way.

The first [...]

This lesson will be the first in a series where all the animation techniques in Flash CS3 will be explained in detail. Motion tween animation is one of the most widely used in Flash, so it makes sense to begin with it. You are going to learn:

How to draw a basketball using the great drawing [...]

In this lesson you will learn how to create a cool logo, that will “land” on the scene by bouncing off it. You will also see:

How to make outlined text in Flash,
How to fill all the letters of your logo with the same color gradient fill easily,
How to add a drop shadow effect to your [...]

With this lesson, you are going to learn how to make a motion guide that two movie clips will follow, one after another. This is one of the basic animation techniques in Flash. The example below shows the final result you’ll achieve at the end of this animation lesson.

In this tutorial, you will use the basic animation techniques in Flash to create a moving pac-man! There is no better way of learning a technique than by working on a real-world example.
You can see the nice animation below – you’ll learn the necessary techniques to create it in this easy lesson.

In this entry-level Flash tutorial, I will show you how to create and animate a planet that is revolving around the Sun. You will learn how to:

Import different image formats into Flash and turn them into Movie clip symbols,
Create a guided motion tween animation,
Make the guide visible – so that your site visitors [...]

Shape tween animation is used much less frequently than motion tween animation, but it offers the one possibility motion tween hasn’t got – for objects to change shape, to deform them, to make transitions from one shape to another.

Here, I will show you how to change the shape of a Movie Clip in a Motion Tween animation, its tint, transparency, brightness, position, rotation and all these things combined.