Flash: Tweening

This page continues using the animation example on our page about keyframes. On this page, we'll discuss how to take a keyframed movie and add 'tweening' to it.

To add tweening to your movie, begin by select all the frames that are part of your animation. Click the "Insert" menu and select "Create Motion Tween." The gray spaces will be replaced with purple arrows (as shown).
This still looks a little choppy. We can alter the tweened area by adding keyframes. Select frame 5 and add a keyframe. Position your object so it helps make its path seem to be a curve, rather than a triangle. Do the same at frame 15. Make a new keyframe and adjust your object. Notice that you don't need to "Create Motion Tween" again -- Flash adjusts your animation for you.

On the next page, we'll discuss how to smooth the animation of your objects even further by binding them to a path.

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