A “FAQ” about new motion tweens is how to scale the entire animation after you have created it. New motion tweens “auto-keyframe”. This can be very helpful when animating, because it saves you a step – you can just make your changes and everything tweens nicely. However, it also means that you need to think […]
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Great extensions that work with new motion tweens in Flash CS4
Justin Putney at Ajar Productions has created some amazing extensions that you can use with Flash CS4 and the new motion model to help with your tweens or create them. Justin’s extensions are not only useful, but well implemented and documented on his blog. For some helpful detailed info about the extension creation, check out […]
Migrating from Classic Tweens to New Tweens? Check out this new article
We wrote an article to help you migrate your skills and tweens from old to new in Flash CS4. It accompanys a new Animation Learning Guide on the Developer Center (they go hand in hand, lots of cross links) – and since it is now out, so is the migration article. Check them out here: […]
Animation Learning Guide released on Flash Dev Center
It took awhile to produce this due to its length (over 80 pages in word I think), but the Animation Learning Guide for new motion (introduced in Flash CS4 last fall) is finally out: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/learning_guide/animation/ It is divided into a bunch of sections based on topic, so click from this page to the topic you […]
Flash CS4: Using F6 with new motion tweens
If you’ve created motion tweens in versions of Flash Past, chances are you’ve pressed F6 a few times in order to insert new keyframes. Doing so has probably become very familiar to you as well – you want to change something for an animation, then you press F6. Automatically. It’s a habit. You can still […]
Flash CS4 example: Spray Brush, Tween instance, new motion, AS3, fancy JSFL… Profit!
In the previous blog entry, I linked to a new JSFL that automatically gives instance names to selected instances in a smart way. You can go read about and download the JSFL from this page. This entry shows you how to use this command along with some of the new features in Flash CS4.