A Flash animation is a compiled or published file created using Macromedia Flash software. The compiled file is a .swf file format that can be played by flash player or embedded in an HTML file. Flash can generate other formats including gif animations. Basically 2 dimensional graphics can be animated very well in Flash animation [...]

This tutorial quickly goes over onion skinning, layers, embedded animations, motion tweens and finally shape tweens. This isn’t an in depth tutorial, but hopefully it might make things a bit easier for you. I apologize if it seems rushed. It was 1:00 AM, and I was in a rush to finish up.

In this tutorial we will use Flash to create the oh-so popular growing vines animation look. We will do it in two different ways; first, we will do a quick masked shape and shape tween under the mask after that we will do it the “right” way and build a frame-by-frame animation that makes this [...]

In this Flash CS4 tutorial I show you how to do a looping walking animation by utilizing the bone tool and symbols.

In this lesson I show you how to create an outside cartoon environment. This was once a premium tutorial for download and no longer contains the example file.