Week 3 - Motion Tween & Shape Tween

MOTION TWEEN 

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N). New Document window will appear. Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.

• Select the first frame. Import your image onto stage, upon which you would want to implement motion tween.
  File>Import>Import to Stage, or just press (Ctrl+R).
  Or you can even draw your own object, you can either choose Rectangular tool or Oval tool from the tool box and draw your desired shape.
• Now select your object on the stage and press F8 to convert this image to a Symbol. Convert to Symbol window will pop-up.
  Name your Symbol what ever you like.
  Select Graphic behavior and press OK.
  
  Note: You can create motion tween only on symbols. So any object upon which you would want to implement motion tween, First convert the object to a Symbol.
• Right now your Symbol is in frame1 of Layer1. Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, move your Symbol to any other position other than the present one
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Motion from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.

• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.

SHAPE TWEEN

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.

• Select the first frame. Now go to your working area and draw any object. To start off with, may be you can draw a circle.This is going to be your initial object.
  In the above demonstration, my initial object is a short line.
• Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Now draw a different object, may be a square.
  In the above demonstration, I have drawn a long line.
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.

• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.